As much as I like to, it's so embedded in our every day lives that it's barely possible. You click a location link on a website it uses Google maps. You use a WhatsApp location API it uses Google Maps. My car... I can't exactly install Bing Maps on it.

The reality is, this change simply isn't remotely enough to cause anyone to care to switch. I'm guessing you're not going to boycott either.

Sorry but that's just ignoring the past 30 years. Right wing populism has been on the rise since at least the late 80s. Blaming an election nearly 30 years later on forgetting WW2 is just silly and ignores a world of diverse reasons working together to create the sense of desperation people have to try some of this new bullshit.

Yeah like those people who vote to keep immigrants out and then find out they need to clean their own shit out of the toilet.

Except committing a DoS attack isn't criminal. The denial of service as a result of you attempting to use that service isn't criminal. If you want to prove that the companies intentionally intended to take github down then you have an uphill battle.

I know where you're going with this, I'd like nothing more than to see CEOs have their pubic hairs individually plucked with tweezers, but the solution is not making up new non-existing legal theory.

A long term solution to silly suggestions would be for Slashdotters to read TFS, but I guess that hasn't worked the past 30 years so there's no reason to think it would suddenly start now.

Linux introduced CPU Hotplugging in 2.6.16 almost exactly 20 years ago.

Done. What's your point?

I know my failings and don't pretend they don't exist so it's not like it applied to me, was I expecting the mirror to do something?

The fact you think that's how the world works shows that education in the USA has really hit a low.

In what way? Trump's tariffs have two main problems:
a) the USA is reliant on materials sourced internationally (the entire world is) to support local manufacturing. That is increasing in price as well - just ask the industry which uses steel and aluminium.
b) Creating local manufacturing takes many years. Trump's day's are numbered, but more importantly his tariffs keep getting struck down in court. What sane company would invest in local manufacturing for policy that would likely be gone before they finish building their plant, and may even be gone before they start it?

Currently no one is investing anything in America. The investment risk is too high thanks to economic uncertainty caused by a raging lunatic who causes the numbers to change every month.

Why would the cult push back? They've been told the agenda has been set by a muslim terrorist mayor and consider the entire remembrance a disgrace. So says the lord. Praise be to Trump.

Then you vote for the least destructive option, and hope you have a better choice next election.

I'm not sure what precedence you think you're citing with there, but there's a world of precedence that is the exact opposite. Also there's a difference between personal and commercial use. Anthropic has already lost this same lawsuit against book publishers because they also torrented books.

There's nothing "luck" about this. Training AI is fair use. Acquiring training materials illegally is not.

This isn't some theory either. There has been exactly this case brough against exactly this defendant already: Bartz v Anthropic. The courts ruled on all matters of training were not considered copyright infringement. But the act of acquiring materials via piracy very much was. Anthropic settled for $1.5bn.

Sony doesn't need luck. They just need to show that anthropic did with music exactly what they did with written materials.

Except they won't. The models themselves have been agreed to be fair use. You're allowed to train AI model on anything it is willing to see. Bartz v Anthropic ruled that training AI is fair use, and therefore the only remaining claim is how material was aquired.

Unfortunately Bartz v Anthropic also ruled that downloading books via bittorrent is copyright infringement and that claim was settled already for $1.5bn

We don't need to guess, or hope, what will happen. There's legal precedence for exactly this court case ... against exactly this defendant.

That has nothing to do with anything. In fact arguments about the sound of music dates back to the start of copyright law. This case is about piracy. AI generation and AI training have already been ruled fair use.