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by zandjager 3y ago
I get your point but let's keep in mind that the AIs that we have today are a result of our world, they are trained with data expressed by humans, their input is human thoughts, emotions, and everything in between. So there is some kin
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by zandjager 4y ago
This is giving me a bit of a Zizek-ian "wisdom" feeling. E.g. in "Putting things off for the future is the biggest waste of a life. You deny yourself the present by promising the future." one can make the counter-argumen
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by zandjager 7y ago
Because not all the network was down/inaccessible; only KPN. So I'm guessing the alternative numbers were on the still reachable networks.
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by zandjager 7y ago
Disagree. A constant stream of news unbalanced towards the negative doesn't necessarily reflect what is "reality". Reality contains as many positives as negatives!
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by zandjager 8y ago
Then several infringement cases have to be opened, in each country according to its specific copyright laws. This may drown the author in costs and time spent to fight these claims that he/she may be discouraged and shut the business d
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by zandjager 8y ago
So what are two essential differences from google?
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by zandjager 8y ago
This is the real question. He could do it legitimately, as google doesn't really care where your income comes from. Hence the implication of google in this story as a party.
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by zandjager 8y ago
"Seems like it may be just one guy." One cannot make this statement weaker. We don't know and we cannot know now whether it is just one guy.
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by zandjager 8y ago
Mules are a possible answer. I don't buy it either.
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by zandjager 8y ago
Doesn't the owner first have to claim copy rights on the content for it to be illegal?
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by zandjager 8y ago
They probably did, but someone made the mistake to put them somewhere where they were publicly available. Also the "russian" made tools available for taking down the content, tools which according to the article were working in an
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by zandjager 8y ago
Anyone remembers something akin to "TV tax" ? It was a tax paid to sustain national TV (media) in a large scale, which provides them the possibility of being independent and not struggle with financing problems. It is simple, and