Oh, fuck off.

I’m not using my glass rectangle just to be reminded of that.

Early 1930s.

The US has elections still, while Hitler abolished all democracy the moment he could.

As soon as Trump starts actually using his presidential power to the full extent, that’s when you have entered 1933. He is still holding back at the moment - the US President is legally speaking nearly equivalent to an absolute monarch and can do far more than just signing executive orders, stopping federal money transfer and deporting non-citizens.

If you do decide on creating a new account, I think either beehaw.org or lemmy.blahaj.zone would be a nice fit for you.

Both aim to provide a well-moderated instance and are strongly supportive of LGBTQ+ people (moreso than other instances).

Beehaw has also defederated from both lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works because of moderation difficulties with those two. As a result, Beehaw is a bit more closed off than Blahaj.zone. I recommend checking both out - you can create an account on either and just abandon the one you like less. Or use it as an alt account, the choice is yours.

That’s like the least noteworthy aspect of German anti-piracy action out there tbh.

There’s an entire industry around identifying people who torrent and fining them 4 digit amounts as well as forcing them to sign a declaration never to pirate again in their lifetime (which, when broken, results in contractual fines a magnitude larger). Don’t want to sign? Tough luck, have fun losing a lawsuit forcing you to sign it.

The cases where large companies do win won’t make news though. “Large companies settles with individual” isn’t really headline material now, is it?

Also, small companies != people. Neither me nor you are a company and even small companies have significantly more resources available to them than someone who just created the next Lord of the Rings and didn’t see a penny.

There are significantly more companies who would rather start killing politicians than see IP law gone. They rake in billions of shareholder value, much moreso than any AI company out there.

I never argued that copyright law is necessarily wrong or bad just because we went millenia without it. What I am arguing is that these laws do not allow people to create intellectual works as people in the past were no less artistic than we are today - maybe even moreso.

Have you seen the impact of IP law on science? It’s horrible. No researcher sees any money from their works - rather they must pay to lose their “rights” and have papers published. Scientific journals have hampered scientific progress and will continue to do so for as long as IP law remains. I would not be surprised if millions of needless deaths could have been prevented if only every medical researcher had access to research.

IP law serves solely large companies and independent artists see a couple of breadcrumbs. Abolishing IP law - or at the very least limiting it to a couple of years at most - would have hardly any impact on small artists. The vast, vast, VAST majority of artists make hardly any money already. Just check Bandcamp or itch.io and see how many millions of artists there are who will never ever see success. They do not benefit from IP law - so why should we keep it for the top 0.1% of artists who do?

The rich want to do it because of AI. That’s it.

They can already take whatever you create wihout giving you a dime. What are you gonna do, sue a multi-billion dollar company with a fleet of attorneys on standby? With what money?

They would certainly just settle and give you a pittance just about large enough to cover your attorney fees.

Do you know why companies usually don’t do this? Because they have sufficiently many people hired who do nothing but create stories for the company full time. They do not need your ideas.

Copyright didn’t exist for millenia. It didn’t stop authors from writing books.

Not quite. Reuploading is at the very least an annoying process.

Uploading anything over Tor is a gruelling process. Downloading takes much time already, uploading even more so. Most consumer internet plans aren’t symmetrically either with significantly lower upload than download speeds. Plus, you need to find a direct-download provider which doesn’t block Tor exit nodes and where uploading/downloading is free.

Taking something down is quick. A script scraping these forums which automatically reports the download links (any direct-download site quickly removes reports of CSAM by the way - no one wants to host this legal nightmare) can take down thousands of uploads per day.

Making the experience horrible leads to a slow death of those sites. Imagine if 95% of videos on [generic legal porn site] lead to a “Sorry! This content has been taken down.” message. How much traffic would the site lose? I’d argue quite a lot.

I’d be surprised if many “producers” are caught. From what I have heard, most uploads on those sites are reuploads because it’s magnitudes easier.

Of the 1400 people caught, I’d say maybe 10 were site administors and the rest passive “consumers” who didn’t use Tor. I wouldn’t put my hopes up too much that anyone who was caught ever committed child abuse themselves.

I mean, 1400 identified out of 1.8 million really isn’t a whole lot to begin with.

It doesn’t though.

The most effective way to shut these forums down is to register bot accounts scraping links to the clearnet direct-download sites hosting the material and then reporting every single one.

If everything posted to these forums is deleted within a couple of days, their popularity would falter. And victims much prefer having their footage deleted than letting it stay up for years to catch a handful of site admins.

Frankly, I couldn’t care less about punishing the people hosting these sites. It’s an endless game of cat and mouse and will never be fast enough to meaningfully slow down the spread of CSAM.

Also, these sites don’t produce CSAM themselves. They just spread it - most of the CSAM exists already and isn’t made specifically for distribution.

Pretty decent news for us non-Americans tbh.

It’d be a real shame if fewer GPUs are sold in the US and more supply hits shelves across the rest of the world.

It’s perfectly legal to compress something to a single bit and publish it.

Hell, if I take and publish the average color of any copyrighted image that is at least 24 bits. That’s lossy compression yet legal.

It does increase the likelihood - marginally.

Fingerprint readers always got to balance between false positives and false negatives. If you want to reduce false negatives, false positives must be increased.

This shouldn’t really matter though. False positives are very low as-is so increasing them a little has nearly no impact on security.

Plenty of cultures eat dogs and cats, notably some South East Asians one’s and some people in Switzerland.

It’s more limited though. For example, in Switzerland you may not sell dog/cat meat (or meals made with them). Consumption is limited to animals you owned and slaughtered.

Ortis has claimed that some unnamed Five Eyes foreign agent introduced him to the honeypot operation and that he didn’t notify his superiors at the RCMP about it.

How can you trust an unnamed intelligence officer though? For all we know, they might have an actual honeypot competing against Tuta and want to gain marketshare.

After all, intelligence agencies are guaranteed to be the first one’s who discovered Ortis was selling secret information. Might as well give him fake information to spread around and make criminals doubt any previous information sold by him.

What about something different, farther away from civilian population centers being destroyed? Like, I don’t know, Mount Rushmore being exploded? Or someone burning down an empty library? Maybe someone gaining access to an airport and throwing a molotov at the turbines of an empty jumbo jet?

These examples are explicitly more severe than damaging Teslas. But only few would argue any of those aren’t terrorism, be it perpetrated by anti-imperialist Native Americans (exploding Mount Rushmore), by anti-intellectual fascists (burning down a library) or by environmentalists (molotov @ plane). All of these groups would have political motives which is really all that’s needed for damaging property to be terrorism.

Whether terrorism can or cannot ever be justified is a different question. But I’d argue attacking Tesla dealerships through violent means is domestic terrorism - be it shooting them up or setting them on fire.

Assume I somehow manage to blow up that obelisk in Washington DC. Would you consider this terrorism, even if no person got hurt?

Sure, but not legally so. Patents are the reason there are only really two x86-64 vendors and a company could similarly patent their own RISC-V modifications.

Anyone can design and sell little circuit blocks and on chip peripherals, even proprietary ones, for use on any chip.

What’s the likelihood of a dominant player emerging and implementing patented, proprietary RISC-V architecture changes which turn out to be necessary for high-performance? And if such a company gains sufficient market share, they could turn RISC-V into basically another x86-64 with many proprietary extensions. Sure, others could create their own RISC-V base processor - but if their performance is 500% lower than processors from the proprietary vendor who would purchase them?

Remove the first “M”, there are hardly any players on the map to save on server costs.

I’ve played both a lot yet it’s not rare to spend 10 minutes without seeing a single other player.

The games are fundamentally, very alone.

I know this is a meme, BUT