Do they also provide build tools and allow customers to build and install their own images?

You have to have punishments to stop the people who are stopped by the threat of them. Those people do exist. We don't think about them much because the existing deterrents work just fine on them.

But you also shouldn't waste your time either believing that they will deter everyone, nor that stronger punishments will deter statistically more people. There are always those who think they won't get caught, and those who don't care.

Somehow authoritarians always forget the carrot. The stick isn't invalid, it just isn't a complete solution, and you shouldn't be rushing to apply it in all situations.

What's stopping you? There's definitely people doing this right now. Around a quarter of the continental US is BLM land. Last I looked pig tags were free.

Everyone dies one day. And the main thing about a personalist dictatorship is that when the dictator croaks the whole system usually follows unless the dictator manages to install their child as the successor.
Besides, these three stooges don't want to be a part of any multinational union since that would seriously limit their power.

Whale oil works for Dunwall, but probably not so much for Singapore.

Given the usual inertia behind the EU decisions, the policies will be implemented anyway.

I used to play in a band with a mate who bought a Transit Van in the mid 1990's. Weirdly the van came with an 8 track player (rather than the usual radio and compact cassette player) and the only two 8 track tapes he had also came with the van. They were Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratch Fever" and a compilation featuring various British miltary marching bands.

We spent several years driving up and down the country to various gigs alternating the tapes. Absolutely tedious but also somehow fun. At some point someone did find a Neil Sedaka album on 8 track in a local charity shop but sadly the tape snapped after about the third play :(

Alas the van, and the 8 track player, are no longer with us but my mate still has the tapes !

Ever heard the song "I ain't gonna give nobody none of my Jelly Roll"?

Do you have any proof other than statistics which you decry in the case of AI that chemo works? What if my Dad just got weaker and weaker and the cancer didn't stop or slow down for long enough to get over the side effects?

What if medical diagnosis of depression and addiction led to a whole cocktail of antidepressants, and rehab, prescribed for my brother, yet he remained depressed and addicted till the end? What if instead of trying to treat him with AA homilies they'd legalized cocaine and taught him to manage it?

Am I free to talk about my own philosophy, or are my words alone so dangerous you must use censorship (and how well did that work on Trump, RFK Jr, etc.)?

Is that because I spent my youth trying to figure out how to do natural language processing, and now they solved it?

Do you realize how hard it was to get any AI to even understand your questions and generate natural language answers without grammatical mistakes, 100% of the time, before the Attention mechanism?

Remember Cost Of Living Adjustments? What if your income goes up with rent, etc. so that your real purchasing power is unaffected by nominal inflation? If you automatically convert prices to units of purchasing power can we remain unaffected even by nominal hyperinflation?

So why are so many slashdotters adopting the position that information should not be free and everyone should be punished instead of saying let everyone copy?

You debunked your own comment, there's nothing for me to do here :)