Yes, but that is just clear and straight copyright infringement in the form of copying, albeit with degradation and format shifting. Training AI isn't that from a technical sense for sure, and maybe also from a strict legal sense.

Combining law and morality is danger territory.

Thanks, I forgot again heh. Probably because that will never not be weird to me.

It would be amazing for me at work where we don't have a license for Acrobat which allows us to do that, except they install Chrome and not Firefox on our PCs (because they like having us spied on I guess) so I still won't be able to do this.

The UK partitioned Palestine but did not found the nation of Israel. That was the US, and it was done through the UN. America always wanted to fuck up the middle east for economic and racist reasons, but I repeat myself.

There is a feasible solution.

Make them continue to provide the service if they want to operate.

If they don't, terminate their licenses and require them to sell to someone who will do it.

Verizon doesn't meet that requirement.

My local tower, which they own, goes out after less than 36 hours

Using a work for AI training is not reproduction. It's not storing the works.

Creating the training corpus, on the other hand... That IS storing them, and completely as well.

This is a settlement for use which has already occurred under existing laws.

Your idea is fairly good but a counterproposal might be to change nothing but expiry, and go back to a 15 year copyright term with no extensions, which would serve everyone.

It supports snaps and charms.

Yeah, that's why no one should want this.

I wrote a howto on how to make your own apt archive years ago, but it's become outdated since. Maybe I should revisit that now in light of this.

The situation isn't simple though.

The telcos also promised to bring last mile internet to the same POTS customers they are trying to abandon now. Remember Pacific Bell? They claimed they would have "lightspeed DSL" provided to ALL CUSTOMERS BY THE YEAR 2000. They took billions in taxpayer funds for this purpose and it never happened.

Then SBC bought them and took tens of billions more and it still never happened.

Then ATT bought them and took HUNDREDS of billions more and it STILL never happened.

There's no way to retroactively charge them for that, but anything less would be unfair.

You're confused about me mentioning what Americans wanted in a discussion about what Americans wanted? You must just be confused all the time.

The actual action was not entering WWII even though we knew the holocaust was occurring because we didn't want to. I see you're confused again. It's exhausting wasting time on anyone who's that confused.

Ok, child.

And now he isn't.

You are ignoring the entire historical background, assuming you're at all familiar with it. Americans didn't want to get into the war because they didn't give two fucks about Europe.

FDR was one guy. Also, what we're talking about here is actual actions, not fancy fine words.

For the local cops, true.

For the feds, NSL incoming!

On one hand, the only way society should accept surveillance is if it's applied to the elites first.

On the other hand, there's no way we can trust that it's being applied to the elites at all.

Therefore, there's no way we can trust surveillance at all.