At what point can we all just acknowledge that copyright law has become a public nuisance in its current form

How do you keep your sanity? Do you just have to compartmentalize everything as extremely abstract and comical when your task is detangling someone’s 25,000 line spaghetti God classes and obscure async timing bugs?

I’ll typically buy albums from artists that I’m pretty certain aren’t mega wealthy, and actually I’ve just been paying less attention to the ones who are. If I check them out on YouTube and they have a Vevo logo on the vid that’s a easy way to know they don’t need my money at all.

They’re probably just trying to prevent any user momentum away from Chrome from gaining traction. Ensure there remains no better options for the people who don’t care about privacy or ethics (which sadly is the bulk of ppl)

I can’t justify a subscription bc my activity is very inconsistent. Sometimes I watch several vids on YT, sometimes I go long periods without going there, so I’m not gonna pay for something I don’t use half the time. If YT had a system where you could buy credits or something that don’t expire, then, depending on their cost, I could see myself actually paying to use their platform.

Orrr, another solution is… what, class?

And followers of other world religions aren’t nutcases? Your boycott list must be wrapped around the block.

I’ll never understand the FOSS mentality of “There’s already a quality project out there with active development and most of the user-share. Perfect, so I’ll utilize my off-time to create my own inferior competitor and fragment the users instead of contribute to the existing one”.

I mean, I get it if the existing project maintainers start acting with shady interests - the threat of the fork can be a powerful tool. But it seems like many of these alt projects do it right out of the gate. Meanwhile, it took linux desktop how long to get a functional wifi driver out of the box??

Can’t let fear control you

I first discovered /b/ in '09 so I can’t attest to anything prior, but it always met my expectations of what a free as in freedom social space would be like. It won’t be the idealistic pretty picture most people wish it was. It will be a mirror reflection of life and humanity. The good the bad the ugly no more no less. Don’t like what you see in the mirror? Take it up with the big man upstairs I guess.

Gotta learn to extract the good from the bad. It’s always worked that way.

We’ve entered the Twilight zone. Where Ben Shapiro and Gavin Newsom are on the same side of a debate, and they’re fighting against Tucker Carlson and the unions.

Edit: piped link

Pay and support small indie labels/studios, pirate or straight up boycott the big players. Every dollar that goes to them helps fund the war on free (as in freedom) exchange of information

Course you will. That’s what they already anticipated.