Sure, but if you install DR, then you have DR to do other things. Like chase that YouTuber dream, or field annoying calls from your great aunt who knows you can edit videos to digitize her parents super 8 family videos that are have rotten.
Yeah, it’s so unbelievable. The acre is much too large a unit to fit into the astrophysical canon.
See, the thing is, the corporations believe they already own our money, so not giving it to them when they demand is the real injury, not us downloading a game or a movie. All the product does is tell them which internal bounty hunter to credit with the safe capture and return of what was already theirs.
If that’s the case, I’d say the new mod did get the memo about Lemmy, and about the fediverse at large, and actually understood the legal risks involved in hosting this community.
Federation works by receiving and locally storing content from remote instances, which means any instance based in the USA is going to assume some significant legal risks by not banning this community.
It’s not that they’re refusing to let people look through a window into another, remote host. It’s that they’re refusing to host and serve that content from their own website.
And you don’t get the tax receipt for them
It was deemed legal and fair use after the film and music industries sued VCR manufacturers and users.
So yeah, it absolutely was considered piracy by the media production and distribution companies. The courts disagreeing with them doesn’t change that.
It’s an argument against seed patents and capitalism.
Credit where credit is due, if we define a generation as a 15 year period of time, and we decide that Gen Z started in 1995 (for easy math), you do, in fact, land on 1665.
I don’t know why the author thinks that Gen D doesn’t exist yet, when the pattern of X, Y (Millennials), and Z make a pattern that both implies that the Latin alphabet’s use is coming to an end for this purpose (ignoring that Gen X was named not as part of a sequence of letters, but by Douglas Copeland’s book, which was titled itself using an existing phrase), and that can easily be extrapolated backwards through time.
Ugh. I feel dirty for defending economists, but…
Laws are just commonly observed relationships, and observed relationships always exist within a given set of boundaries and assumptions.
Change the boundaries or the context, and the law may no longer apply.
Consider Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation:
F ~ Mm/r^2
This observed relationship doesn’t hold under very large M or very small r. In those contexts, a different relationship is required. That doesn’t invalidate this one, though. It just maks it situationally useful.
Which all of these laws are.
I see someone is asking to be dumped in the middle of the atlantic alone to test whether they “cut it” or not.
Damn, five figures. Nice! 912800 here.
I had the app on my phone, just to check in on my friendslist. None of them had logged on since about 2004 or so, at the latest.
My 11 year old desktop’s starting to go a little senile. I need to find it some new(ish) DDR3 sticks, I think.
It’d feel better if I was paid the full value of my labour, and if the ownership didn’t keep trying to hamstring the people trying to do good with products I help make by locking them behind weirder and weirder licenses.
You can see the discussions that inspired the Comic Book Guy.
World governments wouldn’t be able to stop the LGM from just landing in the middle of Tokyo for all to see. They have no control in that situation.
Discovering microbes on Mars might be one thing, but it’s also the kind of thing the general public wouldn’t give a shit about.
I’ve watched chunks of society freak out over everything from basic food ingredients to vaccines because they contained polysyllabic words that people decried as “chemicals”.
And I’ve spent my whole damn life listening to people abuse the word “theory” until the the Christofascists and neo-nazis managed to become mainstream.
People abuse technical words with a purpose. Don’t play apologetics for them because you believe their understanding of words is more nuanced than they are.
Look at the positions of d and k on the keyboard. _ema_es.
No? I said the opposite of that.
The question I was answering was “why aren’t there more employee owned companies?” And the answer is it’s a lot harder to get seed money for those, because the rent seeking parasites don’t want them to exist.
I kind of suspect this was an attempt on the IA’s end to get parts of copyright struck down by court ruling. Laws can be clear and still found to not be in the public’s interest, or in violation of some other legal doctrine, and sometimes you’ll see groups come at them sideways.
Ownership laws are really tough ones to chip away at, and IP law in particular has been getting worse and more unassailable over time.