Steamboat Willie on YouTube for 13 years. In HD on Disney+. Disney owns the primary sources and theatrical quality digital restorations. The expene would break the geek before he went into distribution. Disney could put its 4K cut of SW into global distribution for free and the cost woudnt show as a rouding error on its bottom line

Steamboat Willie is eight minutes of silent era sight gags with a synchronized sound track. Primary sources nitrate stock and an obscure mechanically syncronized phonographic disk system. If you are Disney, MoMA or the LOC that is not going to be a problem. It is going to be a problem for the geek who thinks his DVD rip can compete commercially with the pristine HD restoration Disney distributes for free on YouTube and its other platforms. There is almost nothing in Steamboat Willie which suggests a plausible conflict-free derivative. Remember that Disney owns the rights to hundreds if not thousands of MM stories in all media and all languages. Good luck crafting a villian that is 1/10 as memorable as The Phantom Blot. One final note. Without the trademarked character designs your project is as good as dead. Termite Terrace tried to go with a erartz Mouse in its early days. But the audience wasnt buying it.

Disney`s most recogizable character designs are trademarked. The Depression drove the marketing of Disney themed clothing, toys, almost anything you might imagine. Your AI generated Mouse has no commercial value unless it is recognizably Mickey - or one of handful of other iconic designs.

Freely accessible data crosses national boundaries and jurisdictions very easily. The U.S. would be powerless to enforce this proposed intellectual property right in countries that don't have agree to it.

Where are these "remote communites" - are they viable or are they destined to be ghost towns? It is getting mighty hot in the West and dry too. You have power but no water. You have water but no food - because your market is too small and too distant for even Walmart to service economically.

The "faster horse" was never the point. The point was the labor and expense of owning and maintaining a horse. The early electrics never topped 10 mph. But they were reliable all-weather enclosed town cars that started instantly and without protest. The respectable middle-aged matron could handle one without the least difficulty.

Keeping loaded and chambered guns hidden about violates every rule of gun safety I was taught as a kid. They are never as hard for the youngest child to find. HalfÂasleep you will shoot your wife or your cat without thinking. No take-backs. No second chances.

Sounds like you are pulling answered out of your rear end. And yes Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons earlier this month, that's reason enough for me to wipe Russia off the face of the earth and I make no apologies for it.

If Putin owned Trump why didn't Putin invade under Trump? Why did Trump sanction Russia? Why did he threaten to bomb Moscow? His attack on NATO was pointing out America was paying for Europe's defence against Russia while Europe was funding Putin's war chest which is still true (Nordstream 1 is still running) so he told Europe to pay for more of their own defence which they did. Meanwhile Biden dropped the sanctions, said don't invade Ukraine or he will reimpose them and promised NATO troops would not defend Ukraine. And what sanctions are imposed are hurting average Americans more than Putin. Trump was right on this. Moscow should be smouldering ashes by now.

The issue with elites is when they engage with this crap it's their citizens that have to suffer the consequences. Putin can absorb the costs, as can the upper middle class in the west. But it's not only the Russian poor that are being most affected (as is typical of tyrannical regimes), it's the American and European working class too. This is why Trump was much better on the Russia/Ukraine situation. He outright placed sanctions on Russia (which Biden reversed) and threatened to bomb Moscow if Putin invaded Ukraine. Biden reversed those sanctions and promised not to do send troops if Ukraine got invaded, basically inviting Putin to invade. Trump got something that current leaders are too weak to see. Putin and Xi are bullies and bullies only respond to strength. Look at how Obama reacted about Crimea, Biden now on Russia, letting Putin get away with it and punishing ordinary citizens even in their own countries.

Why is it that announcements like this always appear on Slashdot when the first day of an event is nearing it's close?

Look at silent films. There were horse drawn buggies and wagons in service well into the 1930s.. Nothing changes overnight. Especially in rural areas where roads were mostly rutted dirt tracks. Buggy whip makers ultimately transitioned into auto parts and accessories.

Walmart with its massive marketing muscle tried for years to make Linux a viable desktop alternative. Through a revolving door of cheap substandard hardware and distributions now long defunct. Sweepings off the warehouse floor. It never found a winning formula. Never sold integrated systems with a Linux compatible monitor and printer. No commercial games or other marketable software on its shelves either. It was ultimately reduced to warning customers yellowf flagged adds that Windows software was not compatible.

Microsoft was selling BASIC to the Fortune 500 in 1975. MBASIC was the first million dollar software product for the new micro machines - and Microsoft would go on to produce a whole suite of languages for the micro. Which attracted IBM. It would be Gates and Microsoft that would suggest DR and CP)M 86 as the IBM PC OS. Which everyone in the business assumed would be a 16 bit CP/M clone. But CP/M 86 was mired in development hell and the price would be a stiff $250 retail list. Gates promised timely delivery of a serviceable OS that could be sold for $50 - and retailed he rights to sell MSDOS to other manufacturers. Who would have commercially viable products on the market before the cloning of the PC BIOS. Ports of prestige CP/M software to the IBM PC was straight-forward and within a year or so there were solid entries in all market niches.

Slashdot published a near identical post about DucjDuckGo on Dec 26th. StatCounter's global stats for search show Google with 95% of the market, Bing 3% and DDG 7/10 of 1%. Which simply isn't all that impressive.