You are entirely failing at reading comprehension or willfully misinterpreting what I said.

You can definitely go pay a lawyer to go file DCMA notices for you, it's done every day.

STFU and go home troll.

Righthaven claimed overship as a basis to sue for things they did not in fact have ownership of. That is far different than assigning a right to a lawyer to go assert your rights for you.

You implication would be that eavy copyright holder would have to personally fill out DMCA takedowns is asinine. Not a lawyer either but I've gotten clear instructions from one about DMCA takedowns and validating them.

Careful they will go push some plugin that throws DMR on the whole thing.

You most definitely can assign and have that right reassigned to others specifically lawyers to take care of these sort of matters for you. Your going to have a whole chain by the time you get to the RIAA who then contracts with sleaze ball law firm who has a 1st year sign everything, on advice from a more senior lawyer that everything is above board. If anything goes bad you stake that 1st year out as a sacrificial lamb.

Now you have a technical expert saying that this infringes because their software says so to a 1st year who click signs thousands of these at a time. He does it good faith because the tech expert said so, gets to use my boss (a lawyer who gave me advice) said so as a defence, and the firm can take care of any fine. The bar would generaly be the body that would sanction that 1st year as a first offence it's some letter that is never public and disappears by the time that happens it's a new 1st year starting the whole thing over again.

If anything the 1st year gets a nice bonus for their trouble and an attaboy where would you like your career to be headed.

Thus why tape is still heavily used. Ransomware can not encrypt what it can not access and WORM tapes are a thing.

If your at all worried about your privacy stand up your own email server/domain. A number of vm providers will happily take bitcoin.

Similar for phone get a voip setup, again services will take bitcoin.

As far as two factor auth, there are a few places that use standard tech so you can use use an app/hardware you trust rather than their junk spyware. Generally viewed as to complex for end users because a QR code is hard apparently. A SMS/email is a shitty 2nd factor far worse than public keys that have been part of every major browser for decades and every reasonable OS for longer than that. Proper 2 factor is great the current implementations are more security theater.

There is a desirable monopoly in the last mile, if you have ever traveled to Asia and looked at a telephone pole you will understand why.

Now that said it's a very strait forward thing to fix, CWDM shared fiber is completely passive no powered devices that runs on the same fiber we had 40+ years ago (Yes we have gotten it clearer but that changes attenuation). That's within a muni's ability to not screw up and a perfect fit for a bond issue.

Already have that just not 30 days out. Picking a driver is a nice bit, so you can avoid those that perfume their car to the point it makes people want to puke.

Muni have no business doing lit services. A strand or more per home to a central meet me room is all that should be done. Now they could run a lit channel even lease the use of it to ISP's/Media/Telco, but that would get them potential universal access to school/library/city services next to the commercial service.

Worse it's comming at a time where companies have been forced to figure out lots of people in one place is not as useful as they thought.

Still have a black and while from the early 90's that prints just fine. Print spooler powers it up when needed. Will probably work till I can not get replacement toner for it ever decade or so.

Newer color laser is much the same.

Either of them I use a pi as a print spooler/network interface as the built in is trash. Not even expensive as a pi zero works just fine.

I still see plenty of available talent in the burbs to rural (maybe big cities where people no longer want to live) but if you think they can not find local talent at 200k seems reasonable to require them to pay the H1B's that vs the cut rates they have for decades.

So? They do not need to pay that for local talent. The point is to get rid of paying rock bottom prices for general meh talent that a slightly more expensive canidate can be found locally.

Groups/People need reputation to sell the data, you also have middle men getting larger dumps and selling off smaller pieces. Like I said it's no longer the 80-90s when people would release for the bragging rights now it's all profit motivated.

Just keep that air cooled VW in the slow lane and let people pass.

Replacing the antenna with a dummy load is not exactly hard.