Not as much as you might think - consumer protection laws and contract terms act as a form of guarantee for many transactions even if you don't realize it. And even then, companies frequently flout the law and screw their customers, even when we know who runs the company and where its headquarters are located. Taking the crooks' word for it is foolishness.

The "promise" of organized crime is not worth anything, especially in scenarios like this where a viable business strategy is:
1. launch ransomware compaign targeting multiple companies, promising to delete all data after payment
2. claim data is deleted, but secretly hold on to it
3. wait some amount of time
4. sell "deleted" data, tweak the ransomware and rebrand as a different group
5. repeat

You can just hold off on torching that reputation as an honest criminal until you've accumulated enough sensitive data to be worth it. I often wonder if it would be better to criminalize paying ransoms in cases like this.

It's an explosive allegation, that's for sure.

That would be nice, since YouTube's copyright system exists solely to keep YouTube from getting sued by big media companies. It goes way above and beyond any legal requirements of copyright purely so YT can appease the big rightsholders. If they get legal shielding from those suits, then maybe they can dial the creator-screwification back a few notches.

I think the copyright term should be 25 years for free. That's basically exclusivity for a generation. After that, you can renew annually, starting for $10,000 the first year and doubling every year after, up to a maximum of 25 renewals. So you can keep something in copyright for 50 years if you really want to spend $600 billion on it. Realistically most valuable IP would fall out within 35-40 years, which still would be within the lifetimes of most people that were part of the culture from which it emerged.

I might agree with this argument if not for
1) libraries exist, where you can get movies, music (and even books!) for free
2) people with disposable income steal stuff all the time. There's no guarantee that having the means to purchase something means people won't just take it if they can

That's correct, and it's not their mission. When I was looking into Proton mail a few years ago, they were promising privacy against tracking by corporations, not anonymity from government investigation. They were positioning their services as an alternative to Google's & Microsoft's data gathering. There is a free tier, so some people might be able to successfully use it for fully covert communications, but that's not what interested me in it.

2021 or 2011 would be more realistic - maybe a typo?

I, presumably like some others, consider the Opera web browser to have been discontinued in 2013 when they abandoned Presto and became yet another Chromium re-skin, in the process losing many of the features we'd come to know and love. Maybe the GP hasn't bothered to keep up-to-date on the latest Opera Chromium (Chropera? Opium?) happenings.

You know, the one thing I always thought was missing from my overpriced Disney+ subscription was user-generated "AI" slop.

It's ironic given that videos I uploaded at 640x480 and were originally accessible at that resolution now only exist in 240p versions. :/

One would hope that a team member correctly identifying a suspicious email and warning co-workers about it would be considered a successful result of a phishing test.

Nominative determinism at work!

It's the former. The meaning of "volunteer" here is to do something voluntarily, as opposed to by compulsion. Employees are being asked to do something outside the scope of their normal work duties, during working hours, for pay, without being assigned to it by their managers.

As much as we'd all like to imagine the hypocrisy of one of the world's largest companies asking its employees for free labor, that doesn't seem to be what's happening here.

Each cloud service should have a couple of days per year on which they shut down for 24 hours so everyone can practice their contingency plans.

I never played Doom with the mouse before the ports, but I thought you could configure it to turn only - not move you forward and backward. The default controls weren't ideal, but you could definitley remap the them, and I used Z and X for strafe left and right, which allowed turning and strafing simultaneously. WSAD + mouse was definitely possible out of the box.