Eventbrite was an good way for small music venues to sell tickets electronically without have to deal with ticketbastard or axs. Easy to use and low fees for customers. For $500m, there's no way that persists

If states can have their own privacy rules for the internet under existing laws, they can have their own AI rules for the internet. If you want to control it, pass a law.

It seems to be that all of that stuff ends up on FAST services like Pluto. The commercials are annoying, but with the right tools (ChannelsDVR), you can record whatever you want and strip out the commercials for later viewing

For Netflix, a contract with Adam Sandler to make a bunch of mediocre movies makes more sense than trying to win an Oscar.

On that note, I don't understand why they're not doing all the DtV stuff that filled up bargain DVD bins in the 00s and made pretty decent money. Netflix should be able to turn out washed out action star films and cheap romcoms like crazy, but, instead, the action movies seem to end up on Tubi/Pluto while the romcoms end up on Hallmark, and stuff like Acorn gets all the breezy murder mysteries.

There are filmmakers making those movies, too. Plenty of people need work. Rather than having opposed goals, they'd do well to focus on content for their primary business (selling subscriptions) rather than prestige content that doesn't generate as much viewer hours and costs them too much to develop because they're trying too hard

Uneven application of the law is always a court favorite. Could probably make a pretty good supremacy clause argument

At least around my parts, pretty much every library has a 3rd printer, and use is either free or at cost. Hard to justify the investment unless you're trying to make it a business

and 1gbps is the baseline now. We've got 7/7 now in my community. Starlink isn't anywhere close

I can't get it to work reliably at all since switching the password manager to firefox. 95% of the time, it doesn't show up if I use another app or another browser. And to make sure it's not some optimization, I've tried setting firefox to unrestricted battery optimizations and added it to the never sleeping app whitelist (samsung specific optimizations). It was my experience when Lockwise was killed, too, which is why I moved to Authenticator in the first place

Making changes to it at will and making it stop working isn't just something that happens to Microsoft. Mozilla killed Lockwise years ago. Both Mozilla and Microsoft want you to use the browser password manager for passwords, but the problem (with Android) is that browser based password managers barely work for anything outside of the browser due to how poorly Android is designed to allow this to function. Authenticator worked pretty well, and other options are Google's built in password manager, perhaps the phone vendor's password manager (Samsung has one), or something like LastPass

If you take advantage of people because the framework isn't robust enough to protect them, you are still the guilty party

Abusive business practices aren't the sole domain of the US. EU drug manufacturers (who control large portions of the industry) overcharge Americans who need medication for no other reason than because they can. They can't take advantage of people in countries with stronger laws, where people are poorer in general and can't afford exorbitant drug costs, or where the country doesn't give a damn about pharma IP and makes their own versions of the drugs (India). That leaves them with countries like the US to make their nut, and they do it gleefully

technically out of court but legally binding through force of law as if it were in court, and less appealable, too. arbitration is effectively court for this purpose

The fact that people violate other copyrighted works isn't a defense. A copyright holder's right is to defend their copyright, and a key to maintaining copyright is to defend it.

As far as my own experience on this matter, I spent a number of years working with Reynolds & Reynolds on LAW contracts, and they've successfully defended their copyrights and patents related to their contracts being used/modified/recreated by other companies without authorization over the years.

The government can afford those companies to fail, but the government also chooses to try to do what's best for the populace by not letting a big business failure cascade across the economy. That has nothing to do with a private entity's right to control speech on its platform

Low quality trolling