yes I agree very much, and also it is important not to roll over IMHO
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strong disagree, this is complicit and defeatist nonsense given +100 years of active and successful consumer rights protection in lawful markets in the West.
you are pirating first-release movies for commercial purposes?
settle down, Cowboy. You and every one can see that factions and a multitude of very particular individuals had a long and tumultuous voting season over this.
> they weren't just going to blindly accept
it says directly above here that this is one group or person, not the whole project
> this sure looks like
it is a new thing, I dont like it or dislike it yet, but it is an alpha quality thing?
> Told you this would happen.
this is what is really going on, I-told-all-of-you
oh that is endless.. if you are aware enough to do something about telemetry IMHO do that and don't obsess about loose ends.
Why am I reading the very newest Backblaze drive report -- they fired the over-forty engineer who started this, apparently.. and I as a consumer, cannot buy the same drives that might be listed there -- have not looked yet. The entire situation is fundementally changed. Info welcome
I strongly agree that failure to stand for consumer rights is both learned helplessness and an apologist cooperator psychology. CA Voter here.
Oh - this is just new markets stabilizing, surely the real world will stabilize back to fair contracts, health care, market rate long-term employment for families, and generally the rule of law?
Take a look at the global fishing industry, one of the oldest industries on Earth, and sharing the feature that the work product a) must constantly be renewed b) the work product is fungible. hint- slavery is real and is outsourced today, by brands that you know and trust at the grocery store.
Q.E.D.
that is not true - this is ignorant of facts
You are authoring original work.. the Baron in the Castle collected your work and uses it. Who becomes wealthy and how?
fallacy is "Oh I guess you mean" .. insert large unsolvable and probably unpopular derailment. Bonus points for aggressive labeling of the opponent being opposed to money.
apologist - "Any company on earth" .. We all stand together, Every Company On Earth .. does this warrent serious replies?
isn't it not-funny that the super-invasive Google profiling and ID checks are also part of "Google Play" ?
Critics on all sides have ample ammunition AFAIK
It reminds me of a time when credit and credit cards were flying fast. Large losses started appearing on consumer credit accounts by the tens of thousands. A casual look into it indicated that it was the employees and leaders of the sector, who read and understood the credit agreement that put liability ultimately on the company. The actual credit card employees, adjacent accountants, quick witted cons, all siphoning money from credit cards in very large numbers. Why say this? Actual customers with increasing security requirements were largely not at all involved with the growing fraud. It was the participants in the credit industry seizing the opportunity to steal, with relative impunity. Things have changed and changed again since then with scale, local rules, fraud detection systems etc.
The point of the rant is that ordinary people's rights are squeezed, privacy vanishes, routine humiliating document production and security, required because the people in the industry that created those is cheating.
Yes of course there is cheating on taxes over tip money, or no-show jobs for relatives.. but what kind of society is being built with constant oversight into ordinary people's activity ?
cash indeed
Cry no tears for these leaders.