Literally all of these things have existed this way my entire life, but the article is making it seem like this is all brand new shit. They’re not trying. They’ve succeeded years ago.
Hello! While I understand why you might think that, I can assure you that I am not an AI like ChatGPT. I’m programmed to generate responses based on the prompts given to me. However, I don’t have any awareness or consciousness like humans do. If you have any questions or need help with something, feel free to ask!
This is why the digital good I buy the most of is music. MP3s are just dumb files. There’s no subscription fees, no DRM. Nothing but digital watermarks. The “service” is the ability to redownload and stream the songs that I’ve purchased on other devices, but I also store the raw files on my fileserver.
Now, the challenge for the vendor is that I can also just as easily pirate these same files.
And yet somehow I still buy.
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Large Corporate Landlords: There’s a perception that these entities buy up substantial amounts of property, making it difficult for individuals to purchase a home due to increased prices and limited supply.
People keep looking for the bogeyman here but this is one where that’s too facile. Rents in Canada have skyrocketed, and REITs rent out their properties. Sure, they rent them out as expensive as they can, they’re jerks. But they’re profiteering off of the shortage of rental properties. And if they’ve got a crapload of property, and they’re profiting from the shortage… well they’re not really the cause of the shortage when they’re offering a lot to rent, are they? They’re profiteering from it, but they’re not causing it. If there was truly endless money buying up everything and then renting it out, prices to buy would climb, but prices to rent would plummet, and that’s obviously not happening.
You want to look at the cause? Look at people who prevent new housing from getting built. Petty bureaucrats. Wealthy NIMBY neighbours.
And yes, as much as it goes against Canadian values: if you’ve got more immigrants than you’ve got new housing, you’re going to run out of homes, and the people who have homes can price them as high as they want because everybody needs a roof.
Read Richard Stallman and see that all this is nothing new. Repeat the mantra: You will have nothing and you will be “happy.” Mass surveillance is acceptable after all I have nothing to hide.
But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer’s root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that.
Ownership of games is a pretty reasonable interpretation in this context. How can ownership of games exist in a context of digital access, activation, online requirements and no physical media?
This whole subscription/rental economy I keep seeing is one of the biggest changes in the last few decades. If anything is pushing us further into a truly class based society of owners and the rest of you it is this.
Damn, I have to go hunting, I didn't know a new season had come out so my DVR isn't set, I hope season 3 sticks to being more like season 1 or the second half of season 2, I didn't care for what felt like a change in tone away from the Alien aspect in the first half of season 2.
I've enjoyed her work in Resident Alien, she was also really good in Chuck.
If you are asked about bad reviews directly, you can’t exactly ‘no comment’ them. His response is basically ‘it’s not a conventional film’ is a perfectly reasonable one, I think.
Copyright infringement in China is awesome! It allows one to buy things at a fraction of the cost because of such competition. A lot of western brands’ factories sell the product locally unbranded for 1/10 of the price and it’s awesome
Yes, because that is where all the profit goes in Western companies, and not the CEO, upper management and stockholders…
You are not wrong in assuming that exploited labor is being under compensated, but different models of labor exploitation aside, people actually making value are not the people reaping the benefits.
Ok but it’s not done by a bunch of Robin Hoods, they rip off (read: steal and then destroy the economic capacity of) small/independent designers all the time too.
Oh absolutely, I was mainly targeting the notion that the way “legit” companies distribute the profits is somehow more fair.
If anything these markets show what the actual cost of production is, so it shows how much profit could have been distributed to those actually producing the goods. (Including designers, factory workers etc)
A lot more people could have sustainable incomes instead of CEOs getting their third yacht…
The ones designing the vast majority of IP are paid in wages, the ones who own the IP have not actually designed it, or played a minimal role, ie outlining what they want designed. Copyright is something that is truly unnecessary in general, it is at its best when protecting the vast minority of small producers who own their own designs and can actually afford to manufacture and sell them, but the bulk of the economy is not at all organized in such a fashion to begin with.
You’re claiming that Chinese people cannot design anything new because they built a replica city? Way to admit you know nothing about anything China does and show your ignorant racism.
Uh, copyleft still depends on copyright. All it means is that licenses are free so long as the terms are followed, but it still relies on licensing. The actual opposite(s) of copyright is open-source and/or public domain.
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