i'm sorry but the record labels are the ones that gave their entire catalogues away to streaming cos for absolute dirt; they do not represent the interests of those who wrote or recorded the music and who now have no legal standing over their own work, who were not consulted when their works were sold, due to contracts which no civilized society would deem either legal or acceptable. They should be dissolved and the rights returned to those who actually did the work, and not left in the hands of the shitheads mismanaging everything.

Doesn't matter though, AI will finish them off.

it's nice that things are getting obvious enough that even the supreme court - nay, even THIS supreme court - can see it

oh yeah those coffers are RIPE for the picking. Honestly it'd surprise me to learn they've not actually been dry for years now thanks to financial sector shenanigans

ahh, the glorious american national dogma, which elevates the normal conditions of the developed world to "thpecial amewican pwividwedges"

i really hope this guy deletes your income tax and then does nothing to replace the lost govt income, shkreli-level trolling that is

they're gonna make their OWN data now, with beer & hookers

Honestly this is the stupidest article i've ever seen. The way to get open source maintainers paid is to make them the only source, ie to make open source software the only legal software. Which is a good idea anyway, because you are NOT a temporarily displaced millionaire, and the world would be better for it in ways you can't even imagine right now.

so literally closing the source, or do you not know what the words mean

Genuinely don't understand your comment. You're calling me a liar because you don't believe adblockers work or something? And that got scored up.

I don't understand.

grown ups don't allow advertising in their own house. You want to spam ads on my fridge you'd best be giving me the fridge for free, but i'll still be covering up the screen

the "moderation" on this website is hilarious. sam altman was already thrown out of this job, and i get marked down for an idle comment reflecting that fact. Mods are on Team Altman I guess? Go guys! You're doing GREAT lmfao

truly. *shudder*

it's almost like the guy running the place should have already been thrown out or something

Yes, Mark, with the way you ran the platform, the things you built it to do and the way you implemented it, exploitation of all kinds WAS inevitable.

If you were a literate person you'd already know why. On the other hand, you're a hero for proving that ignorance really IS an excuse i guess?

Sweet, hackable cars that won't go when it's the most important possible time that they go, such as IN AN EMERGENCY

it's fine, all capitalists are idiots and their products will not survive what's coming

you can't, and even if you could there's an infinite number of additional clowns waiting in the wings.

You can't rescue this society, all anyone has ever been able to do is help build back up in the right direction after the idiots make it all fall apart.

Total collapse is the goal anyway, of both them and us, regardless of whether we recognize it. You want to believe you can save one part while the rest dies, i mean, go ahead but that's not how anything works