I don't "bid" for electricity. The meter spins and I pay the price. That's how it should be for everyone.

That's not true. The law doesn't speak of "DRM" but instead of effective technical protection measures. The key word is effective - serving the content in full, unencumbered, and then relying on a client to run code to hide it again is not effective.

If a shop leaves free samples on a table and you take one, youâ(TM)re not stealing even if they hoped you wouldn't notice or take too many.

Tesla and other automakers have the ability to push emergency firmware updates. In Teslaâ(TM)s case, every car is continuously connected through a built-in, Tesla-managed cellular service, allowing the company to update nearly any subsystem remotely. This means they could, in theory, push drivetrain firmware that doesnâ(TM)t function correctly. Itâ(TM)s also very likely that they have more straightforward âoelockdownâ options too.

That’s a pretty simplistic take. Governments of all political stripes have pushed censorship or overreach when it suits their agenda and it’s not a uniquely right-wing phenomenon. Acting like “the left is too busy saving civilization” is just tribal cheer-leading. Authoritarianism isn’t exclusive to one side; it’s a mindset that shows up anywhere people think they know what’s best for everyone else.

Spend on development instead of activism. Fwiw I still use Firefox but I have to switch now and then to get acceptable performance in certain apps. Sad.

Copyright needs to die. AI will kill it dead, not by erasing the rent-seeking law from the statute, but by making accessible on-demand clones that are just as good.

With record low birth rates - a replacement of just 1.14 - perhaps Japanese should be thinking less about 'woman's advancement' and more about basic survival. The same applies to many 'western' countries too.

Don't think for one moment that they will require their AI businesses to "ask permission" for their models to read. This is a race. If we put up hurdles whilst the competition doesn't, we're going to lose it.

I see the standard of discourse from the left has not improved since the aforementioned vote.

That should be the bare minimum in exchange for the state enforced monopoly that is copyright.

Sorry, I see no difference between a human reader and an AI reader. Neither copies the book verbatim into their head. Both can recall interesting phrases and ways of speaking. AI will eventually bring us the age of knowledge abundance, and with that, we'll have no more need for so-called "intellectual 'property.'"

I hope that's satire!

For PassKey, at least in the implementations I've seen, you need "something you know" to unlock the passkey so doesn't that count? Like using a pin to unlock a smartcard...

This is newsworthy?