The recipient doesn’t know the donor, and the donor has no way to prove their identity to the recipient.
The recipient doesn’t know the donor, and the donor has no way to prove their identity to the recipient.
The university knows who’s paying its bills and has agreed to keep it a secret.
A truly anonymous donation should be double-blind to the donor AND recipient. If you don’t want credit, don’t expect influence either.
Bolero would be pretty awful with lyrics.
I have no objection to fleecing rubes, but I’ve read he mistreats his staff too.
Why I noped out of academia for industry.
He’s a douche, but also the meme spirit for “sprinkle of salt”.
All my Lemmings love analemmas
If he really believed that he wouldn’t live in a gated castle.
I used to pirate games because there was no legal digital distribution. The pirate version I could get faster and wouldn’t hassle me to put the right disk in the drive before I could play.
Then digital distribution got good, DRM got less obnoxious, and malware got meaner.
I used to pirate music for similar reasons.
I didn’t pirate video because the files were too large, and around the time bandwidth caught up, Netflix got good. Now digital video distribution is awful so I pirate video until they solve the fractured storefront problem.
Easy work for a digital archivist.
Music studios didn’t have those in the 1990’s.
Just following longstanding studio practice of putting the masters in a vault so you can forget about them.
They’re not used to the risks of bit rot.
Lemmy is too small to need this solution in search of a problem.
Bad guys want to end democracy and convince you not to vote.
One time pads are almost impossible to use correctly in real world practice.
You’re doing people a real disservice if you promote this without spending at least as much time educating how to use it correctly.
Let’s talk after they start arresting studio execs for sending fraudulent DMCA takedowns.
To be fair, at the time that was the best rate seen in the previous 20 years.
If they ever come out with a service that has everything, no commercial breaks, and you can download for offline use, those pirates will be in real trouble.
Isn’t all latex biodegradable? It’s cured tree sap.
We have entire communities for unpopular opinions and shitposting, yet you chose to post here on ML?