vastly expands the pool of potential victims
I’m not brave enough at the moment to say it isn’t some kind of crime, but creating such images (as opposed to spamming them everywhere, using them for blackmail, or whatever) doesn’t seem to be a crime that involves any victims.
Not sure if it’s from an alternate universe or from our own future, but somewhere there is a version of this article that’s like “Today, the market for Mastodon alternatives is a crowded one to say the least. There are numerous services for consumers to try, including the open-source based Misskey, smaller startups like Pleroma, plus the Elon Musk-based product formerly known as Twitter.”
No matter how good it is, and I’m hoping for the best, it will definitely be over-hyped.
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13% may not sound like a lot, but it includes almost all of the 10% who weren’t complete idiots.
I've just noticed that this is in c/piracy. I suppose there's lots of interest in the story here and everywhere else, but I'd just like to remind you all that ad-blocking is not piracy.
It is if you redefine AGI to mean the thing that's already here, although to get away with that it helps if at the same time you overestimate what LLMs are capable of doing.
My CPM numbers are pretty out of date, perhaps their costs have gone up with inflation. On the other hand perhaps they've gone down with storage and bandwidth costs.
Yeah I'd pay up to $7 per 1000 videos, that does seem like a fair price. It'd cover about 3 years of my typical usage.
In that case use some other DNS server.
You do have to figure though, that it’s only the most active users who will opt to pay $14/month
I'd say it's more likely to be the most wealthy users who will pay the $14, and it seems plausible that the most devoted facebook users might care less about avoiding the ads than people who are there only reluctantly. So maybe slightly closer to the middle of that 11% to 342% range.
Given that there's no hope for my scenario happening, I suppose that one will do.
Forget your ideas of utopia for the time being. First let's reduce the copyright term to something reasonable like 14 years or less, and abolish legal protections for DRM such as the DMCA. It's a big enough change to start with, and might lead to more people respecting the law. The absurdity of works being locked up by the heirs and successors of authors who've been dead for three generations is unjustifiable.
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Yeah I’ve been back there a few times to check, and the reddit I knew is most certainly dead. Its corpse will stumble around for a while animated by venture capital necromancy, but it’s not really a threat any more and will stop moving soon enough. Youtube still has much enshittification to go before it gets to that point.
If they have a rare piece of music history they’re probably also seeding many more popular things as well, which are eating up all available bandwidth which might not be much.
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Don’t these pirates know that their illegal schemes to make unauthorized copies and recordings of things causes EUR 3.19 trillion in financial damage to rights owners every year? It seems they will never learn, so we will need new laws. Mandatory client-side scanning for copyrighted material must be built in to all cameras and phones, or our whole economy will surely collapse.
They don’t have a lot of locations yet, but by sheer good luck they do have one near me. Looks like an excellent way to get rid of some books when I some day get around to clearing out some space on a shelf.
“full-disk encryption” is the search keyword you’re looking for