That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. People generally prefer to stay legal as long as the money is reasonable and the friction to use what you've fairly paid for is sufficiently low.

Meanwhile, we're talking about Microsoft "letting" us do something many of us are already doing via emulation. Gee, you bought a physical disc rather than a worthless digital entitlement? Sucks to be you, pay again... Except... Yeah, I really have no need for this new option when the old one is still superior.

And to be clear, I'm in no way talking about actual piracy. I've paid for a looot of media over my lifetime, and quite often I'll still use a "fixed" version because it's in every way the superior product.

Just wait a bit and there will be a glut of smart phones available as everyone under the age of 16 gets booted of social media and the net in general.

You're proposing we hold kids responsible for violating laws created under the pretense of kids being too irresponsible to safely use social media.

You see the problem there, right?

OK, I'm picking nits.

This is peak "I have no idea what I'm talking about" content from your firehose of BS. Why is it that you think you are personally being asked about every question here? Why do you think you need to have an opinion on all of it?

Because your post makes you sound like trumptard. How was that difficult so for you to figure out that you had to ask?

wow the world you live in seems sooo um exciting

The people that made things got tired of the BS and moved on. The people that TALK about making things are going as strong as ever...

I've been at fark since Drew was begging for beer. It's a hole these days sadly echoing echoing echoing...

"They were one of the early zealot converts and, well, it didn't work out very well for them long term." ---------This very much

How many people have you actually met in life? Because based on your posting you seem like an internet poisoned shut in.

Potentially, but not necessarily more than they're going to spend on the work.

Maybe Apple sees it as just the right thing to do. Apple has access to enormous volumes of data that they could monetize if they wanted, but they don't. They jumped through a bunch of hoops to make Lockdown Mode that, if the user screws it up, means that everything is lost. They are unlikely to be making money on that, especially since it limits some app installations and functionality, and they're not going to get fined by anyone for not having it. There is, in fact, a real risk that someone is going to fine them for being unable to recover the data.

Free speech includes lying.

It holds a legal and fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of its shareholders. Tim Cook rather famously told off an Apple shareholder who asked him to commit to pursuing only programs that would be profitable, saying, "When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don't consider the bloody ROI."

That's just one small example by a powerful CEO after a shareholder initiative was shot down 98-2, but most companies spend money on things that reduce profits or are not profitable. Look at the sprawling HQs with fancy buildings that are set up by so many companies when they could have gone with simple brutalist architecture. There are companies that pay well because it promotes long-term stability even at the expense of short-term profits.

I get that these big companies don't deserve blind trust, but understanding what their obligations are is much more helpful than oversimplifications.

The resource is a search engine. I assume you've heard of such a technology before.

What is being suggest is not a novel idea. It's trivial to find the information for just about any modern vehicle simp[ly by searching for it.

Sometimes I wake up and start doing new science. But usually I just roll over and go back to sleep.