Without seeing the studies, it's hard to know if they were good studies that support her position or not.
Solidly built games, but they lack the player-characters at the center.
They're great games, pinnacles of the form, but I don't think they hit the same as Planescape: Torment.
I mean they should have given him credit. That's what they owe him (all they owe him) under the MIT license.
It's always niche stuff. Music by non-headliners. Indie films.
I honestly think text/pdfs will actually stay easy. Text, even manga I suspect, is lightweight to host, so it's easier to keep online. By contrast a flac rip of a band that's never gone gold will be too heavy to host on a web page, but too niche to keep dedicated seeders on a torrent.
This is an excellent policy position, if only the argumentation wasn't dogshit. I am begging everyone even vaguely lib-left, stop writing like this. If you're trying to write a petition, open letter, or public statement, for the love of god write it for people other than yourselves or just don't say anything at all.
Internet censorship is bad for alphabet people, but it's also bad for the straights. It's bad for everyone. It's just bad.
Freedom is for everyone. And Heritage wasn't coming to the parade anyway.
The only org they call out by name is The Heritage Foundation.
I assumed that they were already skipping the parade.
It's a huge loss for smaller copyright holders (like the ones that filed this lawsuit) too. They can't afford to fight when they get imitated beyond fair use. Copyright abuse can only be fixed by the very force that creates copyright in the first place: law. The market can't fix that. This just decides winners between competing mega corporations, and even worse, up ends a system that some smaller players have been able to carve a niche in.
Want to fix copyright? Put real time limits on it. Bind it to a living human only. Make it non-transferable. There's all sorts of ways to fix it, but this isn't it.
ETA: Anthropic are some bitches. "Oh no the fines would ruin us, our business would go under and we'd never maka da money :*-(" Like yeah, no shit, no one cares. Strictly speaking the fines for ripping a single CD, or making a copy of a single DVD to give to a friend, are so astronomically high as to completely financially ruin the average USAian for life. That sword of Damocles for watching Shrek 2 for your personal enjoyment but in the wrong way has been hanging there for decades, and the only thing that keeps the cord that holds it up strong is the cost of persuing "low-level offenders". If they wanted to they could crush you.
Anthropic walked right under the sword and assumed their money would protect them from small authors etc. And they were right.
As explained, it's not even quite user identification, but rather verification of a unique individual. The ability to identify that an account is held by a unique person (as opposed to possibility being one of many puppet accounts) is pretty useful, particularly if it's not possible to backtrace it to an otherwise identifiable person.
Even so, the problem I see with this system is that a person has to be careful to never, ever, ever associate their unique ID with themselves, though there will be constant pressure to do so.
Even for those, it won't, because those people are either:
I think with a lot of stuff like that, most people don't care. Like I assume it's the red and white side that you're talking about but idk, and for sure I never see racists flying either set of colors which is why I think no one cares.
The Confederate flag didn't fall out of favor primarily due to its meaning in the 1800's, but moreso due to the contemporary associations.
Tbf, this is just declaration of intent to commit war crimes, not genocide.
I mean, you do, but... Often you just attest citizenship. Not sure if it's checked on the backend or not. And illegal immigrants often have SSNs, just not their own. That's how they can work much of the time.
Not that I expect many non-citizens are voting. The risk to reward ratio makes it really unattractive. Even citizens struggle to bother.