Agreed about changing the copyright law.
Until that happens though, they must not be allowed to have it both ways - call us "pirates" when we copy their shit without paying for it, and tell us that paying for shit they copy is "impossible".
Agreed about changing the copyright law.
Until that happens though, they must not be allowed to have it both ways - call us "pirates" when we copy their shit without paying for it, and tell us that paying for shit they copy is "impossible".
Maybe. Probably. Who can keep track?
Libraries are still a thing. You can still go there to borrow a book, read it, and return it, so that others can read it.
Public libraries are under assault from every direction.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/book-bans-librarians.html (apologies for nyt link)
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/5/23711417/republicans-want-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans
Pretty soon you either won't find the books, or even the libraries themselves. Piracy is the only way they are leaving to us.
Treats servers badly. Both in restaurants and in IT infrastructure.
Nothing and I mean nothing will kill this faster than some leaked chats, emails, and browsing history of a few politicians.
"AI is nowhere near to being ready to replace you at your job. It is, however, ready enough to convince your boss that it's ready to replace you at your job."
You mean Cortana which was a rebrand of Clippy.
Firefox on Android works great too. I'm slowly degoogling my life, and this was by far the easiest step.
As much as I hate awfully broad patents, if the shoe was on the other foot, Apple would unleash its army of lawyers to block the other company's sales.
Kids are made basically out of rubber. Adults however... Have you ever seen a rubber band that's been sitting in a drawer for like 5 years without use? Yeah, kind of a similar thing.
I don't think it's a conspiracy. "Don't attribute to malice what could be explained by incompetence."
Easy solution. "The Internet Archive" should rebrand itself to "Archiving the Internet" to confuse everyone who talks about how "AI" should be able to steal books.