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Rhowch, mwyn, and wnffre are Welsh. The rest is nonsense.

There are tolerated quirks, and then there is insubordination. Defying US Copyright Law would have been the latter, it was not tolerated.

How do SSDs and HDDs compare to optical disks in terms of stability in storage? SSD bits can lose charge over time until a lot of 1s read as 0s, right?

I gave up years ago. Security fatigue permeates my entire life.

I have no idea about how to protect a password manager with an encrypted container.

And to be honest with you, it's not something I'm likely to do even if you do attempt to explain the 60 minute long $10 18-step process to me. Or however long it takes and whatever it costs.

And really, for all my ignorant ass knows you could've just as well been encouraging me to get malware and I'd be none the wiser.

I've had security fatigue for years now. I'm sure most of you have. I've written down so many usernames and passwords and it's still not half of what I have, and to top it off, several of the written passwords are now wrong after obligatory password changes and I don't remember the new ones.

GEMA aeems to be doing a lot of shit I don't think should be done, like charging for live performances of GEMA-owned music. I also don't see why there should be an organization with memberships? That's not at all related.

I'm also not pitching an organization at all, I wouldn't expect an additional one to be necessary. It's just conceived as a legal framework change,

When I'm talking about starting companies, I'm talking about several, not competing through the size of they're libraries, but rather through other things like cost, quality, UI, searchability, recommendations, etc.

I am not talking about a concept for a company, I'm talking about revised ethics to inform revised laws which could perhaps enable what you seem to describe Grooveshark as.

I think the DMCA experiment has gone on long enough and it's time to try to mitigate the negative results of it through a different approach.

People go to the zoo in hopes of watching the animals fuck.

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What the fuck is wrong with you?

I just wanna pitch something:

What if it was impossible to publish something through a preferred publisher? What if any published piece of music was legal to redistribute with a published fixed global royalty?

As in: You can start a music distribution service and you don't need to make any deals, you just use what's out there and pay the fixed fee per user who played the song.

This could perhaps be enforced by there simply being no more legal grounds to stop your service as long as you pay, with fines for secret deals being extremely high and the award for whistleblowing also being very high.

In general I feel like movies, shows and video games could be treated the same. Ending exclusivity has been something I've kinda wished to see forever. I think if you reconsider the ethics many of you might conclude that you agree with me.

Honestly, I'd tolerate an adless grey timer, you don't even have to trick it that time has passed.

Just open in another tab, wait for skip option, skip (but probably not in a perfectly timed robotic way), then pause. Grey and silent midroll would be annoying but still tolerable.

People who know programming and how far it can go seem to sometimes trap themselves in very difficult problems that would be great to solve, but undervalue a version without that complicated luxury.

I'm all for trying to solve it, but a tool that doesn't is still good. I just don't want to be aware of what the companies want to make me aware of.

What the fuck is wrong with you? "tankies are on the right side of history"? Grab a shotgun and blow your face off.