It’s not my fault if somebody makes content at a loss and isn’t able to recuperate their losses. It happens all the time, sucks for them. I mean that earnestly by the way, though it sounds callous – it really does suck for them, and I feel bad for artists who can’t turn a profit.

However, I just don’t agree with you that “objective harm” is done when one pirates media. If this were true, you must admit that it’s equally objectively harmful to the IP holder for one to not consume media at all. I just don’t see how you can square that.

I think we’re all familiar with weaponized legal language. Unauthorized reproduction sounds scarier to most of us than piracy.

Real pirates steal stuff. So-called digital “piracy” isn’t piracy at all. This is just propaganda for the business model that the establishment is trying to hold onto.

It doesn’t hurt IP holders to “pirate” their data. It is no difference to them whether you were to pirate it or to have never been born at all in the first place. Their profit is the exact same either way. Their business model is imaginary and they want to force it on everyone else.

Since what happens on Lemmy stays on Lemmy, I guess it must be fine.

yeah but he’s a daddy tho 😘

How about let’s all not talk or make angry memes about the guy. Ross requested that he not be harassed. Something about not wanting negative energy.

some day I hope to be brave enough to post pictures of my house on the internet

I guess Ty changed their name

Halo: Reach > Halo 3

“Only about 40% of the Cruz woke science database is woke science” - (a critique by somebody who’s anti-woke.)

Then you should say that.

I didn’t say that. I said you did not push the accusation. Instead you weaseled out by saying he was “mentioned.”

You could accuse that “he inspired the Christchurch shooter,” but c’mon just being mentioned by a bad guy isn’t in and of itself a bad thing.

You got a problem with open source? In /c/opensource?

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Passing information between two simultaneously existing entities? Get outta here! All cultures use the Jung collective unconscious to store knowledge!

It seems the subject of AI causes lemmites to lose all their braincells.

Please read the comment more carefully. The observation is that one can proliferate a (legally-attained) work without running afoul of copyright law if one can successfully argue that cp constitutes AI.

Hate slop, but I also approve of anything that makes it easier to wrest IPs away from Hollywood. Feeling conflicted and pessimistic.

Self-driving not being reliable yet is one of the biggest disappointments of the last decade.