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These agreements see libraries license ‘official’ e-book versions from publishers, who charge for every book that’s lent out to patrons.
So it’s not “unlikely” that it will fuck over libraries. It’s already happened.
These agreements see libraries license ‘official’ e-book versions from publishers, who charge for every book that’s lent out to patrons.
So it’s not “unlikely” that it will fuck over libraries. It’s already happened.
Who would win?
I think we all know the answer.
The mothership is down? I didn’t even notice.
Imagine wasting your life on taking down these websites in service to corporations and billionaires.
Makes me feel better about my job.
Old versions of yt-dlp never work for me. Even after a few months, it’s usually time to upgrade.
Ah yes lawyering your way to riches. That’s never a bottomless black hole… \s
“No food grown that we do not own.”
Is lemmy overrun by monsanto shills like reddit yet? Anybody gonna come in here preaching the gospel of “GMOs” and extremely privatized food?
Having to rely on the United States for software including, Windows and Photoshop, is painful enough.
Thanks to linux and gimp, I’m more powerful and technologically advanced than one of the largest empires in history.
They reached out to several major publishers and partnered with an anti-piracy outfit, to test whether takedown efforts have a measurable effect on legitimate book sales… While the researchers found a small positive effect in the takedown category, it wasn’t pronounced enough to be statistically significant. Only after the researchers tried a Bayesian analysis, adding data from previous research, did they find an uptick in book sales.
Sounds like fair and unbiased science. \s
Yeah OP seems to imply there’s some kind of cyptographic security with NFTs. Nope! It’s literally just a URL on the blockchain pointing to a regular image on a regular server.
Victim blaming.
It’s so much more important for the system to violently control scientific research than any tv shows, movies, etc.
I use myinsta. It’s great for removing ads, etc. But there are some minor glitches (eg. repeatedly asking for contacts/location permissions) and it seems to take up more storage.
There is no “less bitcoin”. They’re just going to sell it.
I barely trust my VPN but it’s far more reliable than any “rights”.
Freedom of information is a grave threat to the hegemonic narrative.
100%. They ripping off students selling books that are often complete garbage. In my experience “calculus” is a great example. The material is completely ossified in like the 1700s. The books are worthless tomes of useless calculations (especially in the age of computers). The whole system is about taking money, filtering people by useless exercises, and keeping people brainwashed and controllable. There’s almost zero mathematical education. If they’re lucky, the fundamental theorem of calculus will be mentioned for a few minutes. That’s the peak of most people’s education in math. It’s pathetic.
The dark side of piracy is capitalism violently enforced by the state.
I don’t think anybody agrees to being jerked off to or not. There’s no contract between actors and audience.