ChairmanMeow

Hogwarts Legacy was cracked in less than 2 weeks after launch iirc. Public release of the crack was a few days later.

The prosecuting lawyer would argue the intent was in fact criminal and not fair use.

You can't just state "I had a fair use intent", you state your intent (e.g. selling an AI model that creates content for financial gain) and the court determines if that intent was criminal or fair use. And considering criminal copyright law is intended to prevent others from financially profiting from your work, this can be construed as criminal intent. So I would not be so sure that the criminal matter would be dropped so easily.

Of course in this specific case, there's a bit of a grey area, so the first case would not have criminal intent. But if ruled against the AI companies, subsequent cases could argue criminal intent as the AI companies should know by then that what they're doing isn't allowed.

It's happened in the past and is easier than you might think.

Trump made the decision to pull out, Biden didn't stop what had already been set in motion.

If the US hadn't pulled out, the Taliban wouldn't be in charge. So Trump killed it.

Indirectly doing things allows anyone to take the blame!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal

The list of manufacturers who cheated is long.

Meanwhile, Ukraine lost its sovereignty back in 2014 when a democratically elected government was overthrown in a western backed coup. Painting this as Ukraine freely choosing to associate with NATO is the height of intellectual dishonesty.

You are ignorant of the facts. The democratically elected Ukrainian parliament adopted a treaty for closer association with the EU, which Yanukovich tried to block. After sending snipers to fire at protestors against his deeply unpopular decision, the Ukrainian parliament voted by a large majority to remove Yanukovich from his post. There is no evidence of Western involvement here, and the only nation that spoke of a "coup" was Russia, as Putin lost his ally in Yanukovich. All of this happened through democratic votes, by a democratically elected governing body.

And one of the first things the interim government did? Hold new elections. How did Putin respond? By sending in troops and illegally occupying Crimea. And in Donetsk and Luhansk the pro-Russian separatists tried everything to disrupt the elections and deprive the Ukrainians there of their democratic right to vote.

Had Yanukovich decided not to send in snipers, the protests would have happened without bloodshed. Had Putin decided not to send in troops, there would not have been bloodshed. Every single time the decision to use violence was taken by Putin or one of his allies.

You're an ideologue regurgitating propaganda you've memorized

Rich coming from someone who only regurgitates Russian talking points verbatim.

NATO chose to resolve the situation by force.

NATO did not fire a single shot during this war. Russia was the one who started all the shooting. Not to mention that Ukraine is a sovereign nation that gets to choose if it wishes to associate with NATO. Russia decided to use force to prevent Ukraine from doing that.

There is no history or geopolitical context here that justifies Putins invasion of Ukraine. To claim anything else is an endorsement of Putins flavour of fascism, where he is literally saying that Russian might makes right. It's insane how deluded you are to literally draw the opposite conclusion from facts that do not support your arguments at all.

Meanwhile, Stoltenberg finally admitted that the reason the war started was because of NATO expansion

Your link does not support that. It literally states that Putin wanted to completely veto NATO expansion, which he has no right to do. In retaliation for not caving to his absurd demands, he declared war on Ukraine. All of this are actions by Putin and could only have been prevented by Putin. He started the war, nobody else.

Yes, I honestly dread to think what Trump would have done.

Lessor of two evils sucks balls, but you can still minimise the damage at least.

Humble Bundle has a special relationship with Valve iirc, because of the charity work they do.