in my book, if you have to send cease & desist to stop a bad review of your crap product, you've already lost

at which point the tech world should tell Hollywood to take a hike and stop trying to impose their broken by design nonsensical DRM schemes that only do one thing, frustrates the user with broken nonsense

The better option would have been SDI over fiber

this is the kind of crazy genocidal maniacs guillottines were invented for

yeah, the National Socialist type...

that sounds like Starship Troopers

I can understand all that, but it still doesn't say why acting deserves special treatment.

Coders enjoy coding. AI has taken a chunk out of that, and people treat it as beneficial. It's taken a lot of translators out of the picture. They enjoy what they do. It's taken a slice out of countless jobs that people enjoy doing, and there's been a bit of a murmur about job losses.

Then we get to acting, with a famous actor being deep faked into a movie with the consent of his estate, and everyone is up in arms because actor and celebrity.

The sad bit is yes, this obsoletes many aspects of human engagement, just as the industrial revolution rendered a lot of manual work. It will continue to do it. The question is how we as a species adapt to it, and utilise it to our benefit.

It's not just a child. It's a child plus a network of organised crime that specialises in tooling for illicit compromise, which said child has access to, plus contacts with compromise experience to learn from. This changes things significantly.

Cybersecurity is a hellishly expensive thing if done to the degree that's found in financials and the like (where a bad compromise could have serious international ramifications).
Most places don't have the budget to hire enough of the right staff to protect against a dedicated attacker with up to date compromise tools. It only takes one flaw for things to start going very wrong indeed.

It's a case of "Taking security as seriously as you can afford to" as an operational expense, and keep insurance up to date for if you're ever compromised.

So, can I plug my Apple TV into it and never need to worry about that third party watching me or getting popover ads crap?

labor laws prevent companies from enslaving the workers... oh damn, we can't have that !

One other aspect of this is modern production regarding mixing and mastering. Music is pushed so far to the edge that drums are basically cut off at the high end and the whole thing sounds mushy.

My wife, who knows nothing about any of this beyond enjoying music, asked me one evening while we were listening to "Fat Bottomed Girls" why the drums sound so good compared to other music that we listen to. It's noticeable.

the stupidity is baffling

Yep, there's a very good reason that engineers poke and prod at things for years before marking something as safe for a life critical area.

Brian is right.

the goal is to locate and snatch mossad / CIA operatives that are attempting to raise mayhem in the country.