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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized the domain names of several gaming-related pirate sites, including NSW2U.com, which has been Nintendo’s nemesis for years.

Ahhh, there’s the real reason. Nintendo put pressure on the FBI, because Nintendo.

Same company acquired two very similar apps.

One required a $14/year subscription, the other $90/year

So, why are you using a subscription at all, and not a free and open source app?

You know what Blender is? It’s the industry standard. Why is it the industry standard? Because it’s free, open-source GPL, it can never be taken away from you, it can never be “acquired”, everybody’s using it, and everybody is contributing towards improving it. Nobody is bitching about how Blender is extracting millions of dollars from its users and reducing its feature set at the same time. (*cough cough* Photoshop *cough*)

Free and open source software. Every. Single. Fucking. Time. Fuck subscriptions.

Everybody who is hated and popular gets death threats. Hell, even the nicest actors get death threats.

They are easy to write and send, and there’s 0.01% of the population that is mentally unstable enough to actually do so. You and I don’t get death threats because we aren’t popular enough.

Pulseaudio was introduced in 2004. How come it took almost 20y for it to be replaced if it was that bad?

Did you learn nothing from X11 usage? May I remind you that X11 was invented by Xerox in the fucking 80s?!

Bad software attaches itself to OSs like a cancer.

You can do some wild shit with pipes:

• head -10 /var/log/syslog - Look at the first ten lines of one of your log files, with timestamps on the front
• cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 - Splits the lines by a space delimiter (the -d' ' part), and grabs the first “field” (the one with the timestamp, using -f1)
• cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 - Splits the timestamp at the “T”, and leaves only the date
• cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 | sort | uniq -c - Gives you a count of each date
• grep systemd /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 | sort | uniq -c - For only the lines with ‘systemd’ on it, gives you a count of each date

The standard GNU toolkit has a ton of utilities like that for doing stuff with text files.

Konami is no longer a video games company any more. They lost that title when they kicked Kojima out and decided to fully embrace pachinko games.

Old, but still relevant:

there was a gap in US music IP law for like 40 years for anything from before the system was nationalized in the 70’s

The system is still shit, especially for music.

The poor already don’t have copyright laws, and the rich continue to have their safeguards. This is already how it is.

What? You think those laws on the books are for you? No. Only the rich get to enforce those copyright laws.

It’s even worse than saying there’s no copyright laws, because the poor think they have them.

WTF, Germany?

This is a big part of why fair use is in such a bad state right now: no predictability in how courts will rule on it as a defense, plus no way to keep you out of courts in the first place.

That’s not completely true. Fair Use has four declarations that you must pass, so there’s at least some definition to how it would play out in the courts. But, it’s not a definitive rule of law, so yeah it’s not going to keep you out of the courts.

that is technically transformative, but most likely not enough to justify fair use.

Right, but it’s pretty obvious that the transformation for AI is very transformative, and it’s lossy at that. After the training, you can’t just duplicate the image it was trained from, even if it was asked a thousand times.

It’s a thing you can look up on search engines or Wikipedia very easily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTuber

For people who pirate HBO service products, no changes, your lifetime subscription to piracy is still valid.

Damn right it is.

Louis Rossmann shouts this from the YouTube rooftops all the time. Why not Randall?

Nobody needed a description that borders on erotica fiction.

The good news is that you aren’t missing much because Vox videos and articles are a mile wide, and an inch deep.

No, I’m arguing that people shouldn’t be so fucking allergic to watching videos on this damn forum.

The what? You do realize it’s just some guy with 73 subscribers. He’s not getting paid billions of dollars.

we all know what’s going on without having to watch a youtube video

The horror. God forbid, you actually support the video uploader.