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Spotify wants to generate translations for these audiobooks in the original voices.

Would an author be able to claim trademark infringement? Not to mention libel or slander, if the translation says something the author definitively wouldn't (and obviously hasn't)? Such as, say, AI inserting slurs.

Ah yes the "labour should be free" / "but if we have to get permits from every artist we won't be able to feed our AIs!" argument.

Listen, I'm not gonna lie. it'd be wonderful if we lived in the utopia where everything is autotranslated for us (not to mention it's done correctly, no "Brock's jelly donuts"). But there's 123456 ways to get it done with human labour properly paid and the corporations are in the position where they have the power and the responsibility to do it. Else authors are going to end up with automated translations which are sold as "official" but over which they don't have control, in particular if the AI translation misrepresents them (using language the author wouldn't changing concepts, or even - imagine - adding slurs).

Like, sure, maybe these corpos don't want to pay for someone to do the translation from scratch... but have they thought of looking for fandom translations and sourcing and paying for those? That's work already done, and has the advantage that someone cared enough about the "niche work", kinda like with anime fansubs. Or they could also, you know, novel idea and all, pay people a wage to translate this. I know. The horror. How dare I suggest that a company doesn't divert wages and income to the CEOs!

Oh, are your gaming statistics hurt?

Are you ok?

Care to cite sources for that? Haven't seen people playing "competitive multiplayer games" from most people in a while, now.

Lol you wish Linux was an equivalent to an iPhone in this analogy. Pretty analogy from you.

There's a wide gap between "rely on lies" and "be forced to lie".

Youtube vids doesn't use DRM, at least not for the free offerings.

In fact, via yt-dlp you can download Youtube stuff in a variety of free formats.

Cope.

Welcome to language. It evolves.

Or perhaps, from your point of view, it's getting enshittified. Even if you don't like it.

Or we can just drop DRM from the Standard. It's honestly about 15 years past about time.

Some of these people even say that Firefox needs to get rid of Google funding immediately to get rid of Google’s influence.

Which is an importnt factor, because Mozilla is currently being kept alive specifcally to lose.

To be fair, those people (and lots others too) watch everyday some millionaires or billionaires just up and throwing money. Under that premise, it "should be as easy" as just convincing a random capitalist with narcissist complex to fund Mozilla. The problem with that is, people's memory on the internet tends to not be retrospeculative, so they don't notice if Mozilla did that they'd be in just about the same position eg.: Reddit was 5 years before 2023.

Want me to buy your media legally? Oh please, this is tremendously easy to do for a corporation!

• Downloadable files (you have files, right? Otherwise how are you streaming out the stuff)
• ...with open codecs (you are using an open codec right? Otherwise you have to encode your stuff like 10 times for 10 different devices each with its own idiosyncrasy)
• ...without DRM (you have clean copies right? it'd not be smart to base a business model on files you can't open, see the above)
• ...at an aggregate price that's lower than paying for TV cable (you can cash in only a bit, right? It's digital media and your competition is literally over-the-air TV with extra steps, it's not like you have the mother of pearl of cancer cures here)