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Comment Re:Standing? (Score 1) 112

Corporations with no physical presence here to NOT have to comply with US law, moron.

However, if tehy sell a product in the US, tehy do have at least an economic nexus, and DeepSeek certainly does, which is teh company I was referring to.

Of course, the US government has a bit more reach than most, so not complying could mean facing lockouts from the global financial systems. You think I give a rat's ass that my website isn't compliant with EU privacy laws even though an EU citizen can reach it?

That of course, is teh challenge with teh transnational nature of teh internet. There isn't a whole lot teh EU could do if tehy decided a foreign website violated tehir laws, beyond say requiring ISPs to block your website, unless of course they sold stuff to EU citizens. Teh question I posed is an economic nexus enough to trigger Constitutional protections?

Comment Re:Hollywood Accounting needs to be banned,prosecu (Score 1) 135

Which is way everyone gets rich, but a movie never makes money. Only a fool takes a cut of the gross Smart money gets a cut of the net.

Uhh.... no, you have it backwards. The gross money is the amount BEFORE the accounting shenanigans; the net is AFTER. A percentage of the net could be nothing after Hollywood accounting.

I recall Sir Alec Guinness getting about 2% of the gross for Star Wars. He made a LOT of money from that.

Yea, you are right, my bad. Should not drink and post...

Comment Re:Standing? (Score 1) 112

That is absolute and utter bullshit. It MIGHT be the case if DeepSeek had offices and/or facilities in the US. It does NOT. Merely offering services in the US doesn't get you anything.

I'm not sure United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez aapplies like you think it does. If that were teh case, any foreign corporation without a physical/substantial presence do not have to comply with US law even if tehy offer services in the US, or foreign banks comply with US reporting laws on US citizens.

United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez was about a search and seizure of a non-US citizen in a foreign country. Teh question is does offering services in the US via teh web and charging for tehm establish enough of a presence to be afforded Constitutional protection?

Comment Re:Bullshit Lawsuit (Score 1) 112

"there is no implied obligation to keep making it faster or more powerful"

That's why they don't allege slowing or lack of improvement as a cause of action, they allege collusion. Slowing or lack of improvement might be a overt act used to prove collusion, but is neither sufficient nor necessary to that proof.

And collusion is all so not illegal, as standards committees prove.

Comment Re: Bullshit Lawsuit (Score 1) 112

Go read what they actually wrote about their products and competition.

I have, and nothing in there or their T&Cs asserts they will always develop at some specific pace; their statements are very subjective and is the usual marketing puffery which is not some guarantee of anything and not grounds for a lawsuit. They talked about rapid scaling and increasing capabilities, but made no promises as to what that means in terms of how fast or what those capabilities will be, merely that it would get better and more powerful; and it still will, at a different pace. They talked about development speed as a competitive edge, but the market has shifted and they are responding. It is not reasonable to expect a company to develop products at some pace decided by outside persons based on some early product hype; and customers where getting specific product for their subscription and could always cancel if they don't like it. No one suffered a loss, and thus the lawsuit is bullshit.

Comment Re: Bullshit Lawsuit (Score 1) 112

These companies keep making public statements about how they are making it better and more powerful to benefit their customers, so yes it certainly does. Every public statement they make is relevant. That's how everything works, not just corporations.

However "better and more powerful" doesn't imply a pace of development. Slowing it done is not incompatible with "better and mire powerful."

Comment Re:Standing? (Score 1) 112

1st Amendment grounds? What the fuck are you smoking? DeepSeek is a Chinese company. It doesn't get ANY of the protections of the US Constitution, you clown. It's a foreign entity.

DeepSeek offers services in the US and thus would come under the protection of teh 1st Amendment, teh same as any foreign company offering services in the US, the Constitution doesn't discriminate between US and non-US entities in teh US as far as their rights are concerned. A more tenuous argument, IMHO, would be such a ban violates he ight to freedom of association of those in the US.

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