There are laws both about making and distributing copies. They are both illegal. There are fines which can be applied even when you are making copies for personal use. You are generally considered to be allowed to format shift, but only if you keep the originals. Otherwise you could just be buying and returning (or reselling) media after making copies.
I read your citation. Either it doesn't say what you think it says or you don't understand what I said.
You don't have to destroy media when format shifting. You have to relinquish all copies when you trade the original. The original also is the proof of license. Guess what you've got if you destroy it? Not that.
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CEO who should not even exist (in multiple senses arguably, but I mean Mozilla shouldn't have one here) justifying his multi million dollar salary in the usual way - with bullshit.
Infinite? Their shitty JavaScript will crash your browser long before forever
Yeah I'm going to take legal advice from the RIAA any day now
I just don't get what the problem is.
Jeff Bezos is a piece of shit and he and Amazon enshittify everything.
Because they are maintaining the digital copy of the training corpus, and they are required to destroy all copies when they destroy the original.
It's a lot faster and a bit cheaper to do it this way, and you save still more money by not storing the paper. As long as they can afford to bribe their way into their use being considered fair use, or at least successfully forestall a court decision on it until they are done fleecing investors, mission accomplished.
You're defending the process of becoming stagnant because of rent seeking behavior where landlords actually reduce opportunity and you think I'm in the weeds? You think people deserve to profit from the needs of others only because they had money first. That is everything wrong with capitalism and it is unsustainable.
Not only is it very common but it's frequently irrelevant.
Take Half Life 2 for example. That was a long time ago, right? It was so long ago I was still using a modem, because I lived in the back of bumfuck.
So you put in the disc and you find out the first thing you have to do is install Steam. So Steam installs, then it detects and update and downloads that update. The "update" is actually all of Steam again, and Steam includes a bunch of shit that I have on my system already since it includes a web browser, I want to say it was about 175MB at the time and now it's more like 250MB. And the steam update download DOES NOT RESUME so it takes me about ten tries to get it downloaded due to my shitty modem connection. Mind you, the download was failing sometimes even when I did not lose connection, so it was extra shitty.
OK, so eventually that's installed, and the game files have also been installed from the disc. Well, the game uses Steam DRM so it won't run until it's blessed. But there is also an update, and that has to be applied before that will happen. This is not a differential update either, so now I have to install all of HL2 over a ~40 kbps modem connection.
So even when there IS a disc in the box with the game on it, you may not actually be allowed to play it until you've downloaded the entire game, AND the time you spent installing it from the disc is just wasted. And if your use case specifically involves a poor connection or no connection, you don't get to play.
All that shit is being done to bolster rent seeking.
If the landlord couldn't make an unwarranted profit rent seeking then the property value would be lower and someone who actually wanted to own and use the property themselves could buy it and build on it. But the rent seeking you are defending distorts the market.
Only excessive rent is theft. Sane places bind it to something like what the equivalent profit via interest would be.
It's preventing others from building equity at best.
We will always need some hydrocarbon source.
There you go again.
"Probably" related to past crimes? Way to generalize.
Every great fortune. But also, I live in the USA where all of the land is stolen, so it's a certainty. What makes it specifically stolen isn't even the genocide, although clearly that is bad and explains a lot about this country, but that we've broken literally every treaty we ever signed with a native nation.
E Pluribus Unix
