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I agree with the sentiments of most points in this article but this one irks me:

> Imagine putting years of your life into making a program – showing up on set at 5AM and leaving your kids to get their own breakfast, performing stunts that could maim or kill you, working 16-hour days during the acute phase of the covid pandemic and driving home in the night, only to have this absolute turd of a man delete the program before anyone could see it, forever, to get a minor tax advantage. Talk about moral injury!

Different perspective: Imagine you've been so lucky that you were able to work on a program and GET PAID for it irrespective if it will turn out to be a flop or even deemed so bad that it's more worthwhile to write off than release. Imagine being so lucky that during the COVID-19 pandemic where most people were left without job and/or income you still had the privilege to show up on set at 5AM and do a 16-hour work shift and provide food on the table for your kids so they can eat a healthy breakfast. Talk about privilege and luck that you've ended up in a position in life that enables you this job security in life which 99.99% of humans can only dream of.
I think they mean, you could have neither bought nor pirated the content, knowing that the terms Discovery is offering are very one-sided (I am presuimg the license agreement explicitly stipulated that they were allowed to do what they did).

Either way, when one party breaks their contract, you sue them in a court of law. You don't seek remedies on your own.
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Gabe Newell rightly pointed out that piracy is a service problem. People pirate if getting access the legal way is prohibitively expensive or too much of a hassle. I can easily get access to any game I care about at a reasonable price on Steam. I can listen to any music I care about at a reasonable price on Spotify.

The same could almost be said of movies and TV series on Netflix years ago, but hasn't been remotely true for a while now, ever since the splintering of streaming into warring content owner kingdoms.

Guess which types of media I haven't even considered pirating, and which media I've given up on getting legally.
Nothing. Spain had a real-estate bubble, and it collapsed.
“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”
― Thomas Jefferson
Taking can simply mean “to gain or acquire”. So, once again, incorrect. Sorry.

I’m sympathetic to the moral argument you’re making—though when the raw goods are digital too I think it’s an impractical & ill conceived one—but both legally AND linguistically… it’s incorrect
Probably something by Aristotle on what constitutes "trustworthiness". (Just a guess)
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I see you are a fan of the MAiD program in Canada.
Indeed, just because some big corps can handle the lost revenue in return for pricing competitors out and exposure, doesn't mean piracy doesn't impact revenue.

Going from "big corp can handle lost revenue in return for market dominance and exposure" to "it doesn't hurt revenue" is absurd.
The comparison is off.

The comparison should be "the library has plenty of copies of a book but does not allow anyone to borrow it, regardless of if they have a subscription. Someone takes it out, returns it". Is that stealing? It might be, IDK, but is certainly more complex than your example.
This reeks of corporate bootlicking because we should be so "lucky" we're not part of the poor and starving class in 2023.
"If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing" is my new favourite slogan. Yahrrr!
So if we encouraged people to make such terms to help with their end of month, looking at people would become immoral?

Pieces of paper/text shouldn't be able to dictate what is moral outside of common sense. The world I describe above would become a worse place for everybody.

Here, the problem is that the artist put a lot of time into making the song because there is the expectation of that term and the ability to extract money out of it. Without this expectation, none of it would feel immoral for either of both side.
What you're saying is that millions of human beings should be subjected to brutal military occupation indefinitely, because their oppressors are afraid for their own safety, should they give up control.
Seems dangerously close to arguing that you could do anything to a baby.

I think the problem with this sort of surgery is you will one day find out that somebody did this to you, that somebody took something from you that you can never get back.

It's a trauma that I'm sure most people get over but some don't.
That's just blame diffusion though. No review is guaranteed to catch issues like that, all it does is say "well we followed The Process, guess it sucks that one got through" when something bad inevitably makes it to production because the reviewer didn't have the specific knowledge to catch the specific problem. That's more likely to happen when the scope of a review is limited to a diff - either implicitly because that's all the tooling shows you, or explicitly because of "why should I fix code I didn't write on this ticket" reactions to review feedback.

That's not to say blame diffusion is without value! You might need it to avoid toxicity around the team. But that's a different problem.
Nothing new here. Basically the genetics, matches the historical accounts. We know (by historical accounts) that the slavic immigration started in the end of the 6th century, after the death of Justinian the Great, where the successors lost territories and few battles and could properly defend the frontier. (avar wars).

Also, after the Justinian plague (541–549 AD) a lot of the local population was decimated, hence the new slavic arrivals found it easier/space to move to the country side (initially as a trickle of immigration in the late 6th century, then eventually as settlers/invaders later in the early 7th century).
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Majority new works is not a good enough standard. If any output is a direct reproduction of a copyrighted input that output is copyright infringement whether it was intended or not. If the trainer of the model doesn’t want to be sued for infringement they are responsible for a robust safety mechanism that prevents it. If that safety mechanism isn’t possible than don’t use copyrighted works if you have any possibility of directly reproducing them.
The main reason I think it played out differently is that Portugal is considered more united in its other political views than Spain. Even in Portugal the 2015 election that ended (sort of) the austerity policies was highly contentious/fractious. Madrid could not tolerate that kind of clusterfuck without also risking e.g. Catalonian independence. Related to that Portugal also does not have the other half Spain does, the US political backing which works in tandem with the German economic power.

That said, if you listen to German politicians they still don't believe Portugal is out of the GFC and would reinstitute austerity there in a heartbeat given the chance.
> Selling a product that can be remotely, irreversibly, nonconsensually downgraded inevitably results in the worst person at the product-planning meeting proposing to do so. The fact that there are no penalties for doing so...

At least in Europe, a company can't just remove features from a device.

If a product doesn't do what you can reasonably expect, this is considered fraud and you can go back to the store and demand compensation.
And even then, wait a couple of months until it's on sale and the quirks have been ironed out.
And that’s why it is impossible to make a living from anything that isn’t embodied as a physical item, right?
Calling rentals "buying" should be illegal, because apparently people aren't equipped to understand the nature of their transaction by description.
This is amazing. Truly a labor of love.
Kudos to you for accomplishing this, and then polishing it to perfection. Good on you to withhold it, as proved again today. I’m so glad that I finally left the Apple ecosystem.
But is that not then just a true reflection of the games popularity? By removing excessive marketing you filter out the people that only bought the game because of FOMO?

Give the game chance to breathe, spread by word or mouth, and maybe after relase have targeted marketing campaigns. This way you avoid self-sustaining hype growth, and your consumers are less disappointed.

I know nothing of marketing and/or buyer preference/behaviour.
I think you meant to say they are orthogonal (that is, they aren’t mutually exclusive).
In the case of cars (the go-to object for all analogies) the bad guy is charged with "unauthorized use of a motor vehicle". That's not stealing either.
This is great. If you do want to read the original book, my advice is to read the first edition. The second edition adds a lot of fluff but nothing of substance.
This is true, we see it anytime a discussion around email comes up.
Let's say Alice took a photograph and sends a copy of it to Bob.

Are you then saying that when Bob sends another copy to Charlie, Bob is taking something? What is Bob taking?
Taking just means, broadly, “to gain or acquire”. Repetition of an incorrect point doesn’t make it any more valid I’m afraid.

Copying is often called taking a copy. Even basic usage of the term copying invalidates your point!

As for “not allowed” that will vary by contract/law/agreement/license/etc

This distinction is why it’s usually not downloaders that are punished, rather uploaders: they’re the ones that broke an agreement.
To be fair I think it’s a bit odd that you only quote American examples (and century old ones at that) in a discussion about a profiling system in France. I can vaguely imagine that France may have laws, today, that are biased too, but I struggle to imagine that they’re anywhere near as bad as the blatantly racist laws America grew up with.

Agree that it dehumanizes citizens though.
This is excellent. Doctorow doesn't disappoint.
deleuze was actually pretty well read in the natural sciences of his times, especially physics. even if you find this short snippet vacuous-sounding, he is actually one of the few philosophers whose metaphors about impenetrable parts of reality are grounded.
If you work for someone else you're entitled to get a fair payment for your time and skill. If you want more than that go and create your own business.
Most of the software in the “ChatGPT” category is just wrappers around proprietary services.
;-) Yeah, I do get that, but when there's no promotion of personal responsibility, chaos reigns. When everyone does wat they want to do, or what they think is necessary, nothing is completed. This is from experience with different companies, organizations, teams, projects, people. Of course, nothing is perfect, but without some structure, there is only communication mayhem ;-(
I was thinking the same.

But people are convinced that these CEO types or high ranking MBA employees don’t look down on customers or employees as people but as numbers in excel.

So it is super hard to treat them as humans too.
> And the owning was always about owning the rights to consume some product within some framework

You missed the point. There is not supposed to be a "framework" when it comes to personal use. When you buy a CD, you can copy it to all of your personal devices, archive it, and listen to it unrestricted at any time, at any geographical location until the end of time. You can transcode it, remix it, or edit it for your personal enjoyment. You own your personal copy and you can do with it as you wish.

These are things that you're lawfully allowed to do with your licensed copy, if it wasn't for digital distribution and DRM which are now adding restrictions that can permanently revoke your rights to access the media at any time.
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I use Acronis TrueImage that backs up the entire drive to my NAS and to their cloud.

Runs in the background each night. NAS backup is full copy every 14 days and incremental inbetween, keeping the last 3-4 months.

Using full-disk backup is very convenient when the disk dies, just plop in a replacement and you're back up and running in short order.

Acronis is a Windows application, don't know of any OSX alternatives.
I didn't comment on piracy.

As for piracy, of course it's wrong, though far less serious than what I responded to.

> depriving the original owner of the use of the item

When someone invests to make a film, do you think the use of the resulting film to the owner is to watch it or sell it?

To break it down, did someone invest millions to make millions, or did someone pay millions to watch one movie?

You know the answer and thus we know that stealing a copy without paying does does in fact deprive the original owner of the use of the item, which was always to sell copies of it, that's the reason and criteria for its existence.

At small scale though the industry still makes do, so it's less serious than stealing for example, a company (e.g. their information). Every act of piracy also wasn't technically a stolen sale, because not everyone stealing would ever have bought it if stealing wasn't an option.
This comes up in just about any conversation regarding iMessage, and it's pretty out of touch with the real world. Apple backed iMessage into the same app that does SMS, so you can't not use that app, SMS is still relevant. So iPhone users are going to use that app. Now imagine that 90% of your friends and family use iMessage, but not by some deliberate choice, but because they just view it as fancy text messaging. How on earth are you going to convince all those people that they should download Signal, WhatsApp or Telegram? The answer is that you don't. You might get a few people who already use Signal to start contacting you that way, but the rest... they aren't going to install yet another app just because you don't like iMessage, and when SMS still works just fine. But now you're excluded from all group chats and videos or largish images.
Not poop, vomit.
Maybe bao in a steamer. If the boa are the secrets the steamer is the vault.
No, the Reed Solomon codes used in the CD have one EC byte for every 3 data bytes. But there's a interleaving system where the data is encoded with error correction (adding 4 bytes to every 24) interleaved so that burst errors (that affect nearby disk surface) are distributed in the data stream, then encoded again (adding 4 bytes to 24 + 4 to give 32, with 8 EC bytes).

So you'd have to find mutations that are big enough to not be automatically corrected (more than 2 bits, you can't change, say a single 0x30 to 0x31), and also happen have the right signature so they don't flag as erasures, so you can't freely change bytes to just anything. And then you have to also satisfy the outer code that your modified byte after interleaving is correct. And do it all by only bring able to bit-flip in one direction. The only upside is that you can also flip bits in the correction bytes if you need.

Also, if the data you're modifying has any coding or compression (ZIP, Word documents, videos, most images), or there are checksums, you have to not upset that. And if it's encrypted, you won't know what to change in the first place.

So it's theoretically possible, but it would be very tricky and highly unlikely that you could change a useful piece of data unless you were extremely lucky with what the data was, what you wanted it to be, and where it was on the disk.

If you're concerned about people modifying your CD-R: encrypt and SHA-256 the whole thing and you'll be fine. I assume this threat model mostly targets governments, so they should first do both of those things and maybe also stop leaving them on trains.
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This idea creates a lot of chance inequality in society and excludes many people from good parts of life.
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Imagine working on shared values and goals for the product, where ideas bounce around, not like robotic messages, but like an exciting game of catch. The time when you need a lot of brainstorming with your co-founders. That's the magic of conversation in startups, and it's super important, even in a world full of tech shortcuts.

In the age of quick texts and short tweets, real talking is rare. But it's the heartbeat of startups. You can't avoid hard conversations and juggling tough decisions for your product.

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Have a look at http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/Another-view-of-game-piracy

<large number>% of copies are pirated, but only <tiny number>% of players pirate, it is simply that (some of) those that do pirate will tend to pirate a whole lot more games. Meaning that that 90% piracy rate means e.g. 5% lost sales.

And if you follow https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15319476 then 90% piracy rate could also mean 5% extra sales.
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I read a few pages of thousand plateaus and I didn't get the impression he really wanted the reader to make sense of it.

It's full of quotations of works you would certainly know if you had enough culture. It feels like an violent attempt to humiliate the reader into submission. Apparently the english version came out with a lot of footnotes to provide context. This probably betrays the spirit of the original.

I'll try to listen to the podcast though, maybe some civilized people did manage to find something valuable in his writing.
> In my mind, sharing information is moral, withholding it is immoral.

I am quite certain you do not really hold this position, otherwise you would almost certainly pulbish your real name, home address, bank account balance and other information on your profile. Withholding all this information would be quite immoral.

Also, software and art are not "information", they are a separate thing. And copyright and patents don't prevent anyone from disclosing said "information", on the contrary. They allow artists and software companies to share this information without worrying that others will profit from their work.

Everyone imagines that Disney or Microsoft wouldn't exist in a world without copyright, but the opposite is true. They would freely copy any competitor while using their marketing and sales teams to convince everyone to give them (most of) the profits from their work. It's a lot easier for Disney to make money off your original screenplay than it is for you to make money off Mickey Mouse.
Certainly that is how it seems. I'm not an expert though, so I'll leave it to them and wait for the official test results.
> Beeper's true purpose was to show people that it's possible without an iPhone.

What’s your basis for saying that? Honestly asking. Seems like Beeper’s true purpose could just as well have been to make money.

Of course this is possible without an iPhone. Apple could build it anytime they want, they just don’t. Which I disagree with, but that’s a different argument.
Yes, you are right, but they also serve the US market.

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Looks very clean, nice project.
Cool. So no worries about other family members (aka not party to the agreement) being the ones to share it with the world then. Naturally doing so without the original family member knowing about it.

All good then. :)
> To have a variable is to assume that something can vary.

Tautology.

> To be a cause is to assume something can make a difference.

Tautology.

> To have a process is to assume a system that can change and transform.

Tautology.

Vacuous is exactly how I'd describe the above.

The only statement with potential depth is:

> To make a measurement you assume there is a scale to measure difference.

This invokes quantum mechanics a little. But if those are Deleuze's words, he's a bit late to the party. That stuff was being quantified and mathematically modelled decades before.
For what it’s worth, Hello Games spent so much time fixing the game that people bought a billboard saying Thank You outside their office years later. The game still gets regular content updates, for free 7 years later and is now one of the better console VR games out there. In terms of long term support and content updates the amount of companies providing free content for games 7 years after release is extremely low.

I think the release history warrants waiting until after the initial release to make a purchase decision (as people should with any game), but if it demonstrates the level of quality and polish I have come to expect from HG after patches I’ll have no problem forking money over for this.

NMS is a fun game with some flawed design elements. I hope that the designers address those in what looks to be a spiritual successor to NMS. If it’s just more of the shallow procedural saminess that indunated the first game it will probably be a pass from me though, I could just play NMS for that
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Well if we're concluding that training a neural net and a human mind forming memories is exactly the same thing, I'm looking forward to all their defenders agreeing that the neural nets should be held criminally responsible every time they generate an image deemed unlawful in certain jurisdictions...

Otherwise there's obviously a legally relevant distinction between a human mind which is ascribed agency to decide if and how to use its memories of copyrighted material, and importing into an information retrieval system which can't help but spit out transformations of parts of its inputs on demand, (including lossy representations of the Getty watermark if it's fed enough Getty material, or an exact facsimile of an image if that's all it's trained on...)
What? You just made that up. It doesn't "map" to anything
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It's because of immigrants. Look on a map. Morocco is promising to stop African migrants and take back their own.
Has nothing to do with America.
Charlie certainly was (he took a copy from Bob).

Bob is the distributor in this context however. In most Berne convention states he broke copyright law (technically, but nothing would happen)

Together Bob & Charlie gained or acquired a picture produced by Alice’s work effort that was unauthorized.

That’s stealing. Is it a big deal? Probably not. Still stealing.