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”.
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.
Itanium jokes are never going to be not funny!
It’s a trap!
But Russia isn’t going to deal with the agreement
I’m pretty sure Putin is gonna have to deal with it.
Chaotic evil is “makes you create a ticket, doesn’t work on it, and then blames the ticket for the downtime to the CEO.”
Putin was elected too.
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Bwahahahah! Sorry, almost made it through with a straight face.
Louis Rossmann’s 20-minute rant on needless cloudification of shit incoming in 3… 2… 1…
Nothing and I mean nothing will kill this faster than some leaked chats, emails, and browsing history of a few politicians.
Pichai & Co would totally have blocked videos if Hitler demanded it back during WW2. They should embrace their new motto - “Anything for a buck!”
Grow a pair, you spineless shits, and stop kowtowing to brutal dictators!
Good advice. Take it up a notch. Why bother going to another country first? Just shoot yourself in the head before being sent to the front lines.
Glorified autocomplete. That, and Clippy.
I see what you did there. Had to zoom in a little.
They have a long history of speaking out of both sides of the mouth.
Both sides of the ass, you mean.
They probably mean comic books.
I’m not your buddy, guy!
Why didn’t we hear any of it from this Ken Buck character while he was still in Congress? Bunch of fucking cowards, the lot of them.
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.