They don't want to ban it, they want to seize controll of it and let it operate as is, just with different propaganda now.
Jako301
joined 1 year ago
Your phone is 100% CIA spyware either way.
Besides, I'd much rather have the CCP collect my data than the US, simply cause the CCP doesn't care about you if you don't go to China, but the US could hand over stuff to your government.
Can they find out?
No, not really. The Metadata doesn't have a "pirated" flag and something like the product key doesn't get saved. Microsoft themselves probably know due to their telemetry but even they can't be bothered about it. I would bet that even you send a pirated document to the Microsoft CEO, they wouldn't notice or even care enough to look for it.
But as always there is the important rule of "don't fuck with work stuff, ever".
It's already questionable why she is editing company documents on here private PC without either a dedicated and remotely managed work particition + VPN or an O365 online work account. These documents fall under far stricter data safety regulations and the way it is right now, she is personally liable for any data leaks.
If you are comfortable editing the registry then you can get the old context menu back without the extra clicks. Searching online for the right key was pretty easy.
Emulators are legal
In general yes, but Yuzu itself probably never was legal in the first place.
At least in the EU and US there are anti-circumvention laws that make circumventing anti-piracy/copy-protection measures illegal in itself even if its done on games you own. Since Yuzu used the prod.keys to decrypt the games, it most likely already broke these laws.
Yuzu decrypts the games with your prod.keys which already means circumventing anti piracy measures. Pretty much all countries that care about piracy (EU and US) have anti-circumvention laws that make this action illegal, even if its for your own use of your own games. No matter how stupid it may sound, there is no possible way to ever use Yuzu in a legal way in most of the first world.
By using these keys to decrypt the games they are circumventing anti-piracy measures which is already illegal in a lot of countries. Even if no actual piracy was involved, what they are doing with the prod.keys almost guarantees them a loss in court in all of the EU and North America.
Why don't they sue PC manufacturers for producing the hardware that led to the emulator?
This one is perfectly analogous to the Nintendo tomfoolery, though.
Not really. PCs aren't purpose build to run emulators, these emulators just happen to also work on them.
Emulators on the other hand are purpose build to circumvent anti piracy measures (which is illegal even for your own use), even if piracy may not be their primary intention.
Thats probably 1500$ in apple parts. These parts most likely already include R&D costs as well as the additional increase for their brand.
Oh it certainly has, just not in all areas. The effectiveness of masks is proven, but the right therapy for for example my AC joint sprain is still debated frequently. Cybernetic implants like Elons chip will also lead to a massive amount of opinions from experts without a clear answer.
This isn't about server costs or infrastructure, but rather about licensing rights and artist payments.
Spotify pays 70% of its revenue to artists and despite that most of them are still severely underpaid compared to their listening times. They could pay artists 5-10% more I'd they give up all profit they make, but that's about it. You already pay artists less than 1ct per song, if that's still too much or not is for you to decide.
Youtube Premium works cause they pay creators even less while showering every non-premium watcher with ads every 5 minutes.
Netflix has an entirely different business model. They only pay an initial license fee for a finished series. The artists/studio already got paid, the price negotiations is purely between Netflix and a few big publishers. Due to that they can calculate if a series will bring in a profit and only then decide to buy the license for a period of time. Due to that their offer, while it may seem large, is just a tiny fraction compared to Spotify or YouTube.
Now to Spotifys books. I'm not sure what their exact business model is, but either they buy the license for the books or they allow others to sell their books directly on their platform. Whatever it is, its a huge increase in costs for them. Either Spotify has the big upfront license cost that they try to get back by gaining new customers or premium allows you to "rent" a book which means Spotify still has to pay the creator even if you didn't pay them anything.
Taking the extra money from the already existing premium subscription won't work. Artists are already underpaid, reducing that even further will lead to them leaving Spotify.
Most governments even semi big companies don't allow whatsapp or other meta products on their hardware, is that precedent enough to ban meta too? Very few apps comply with the GDPR requirements needed on company/government hardware.
Look, I despise Tiktok too, but most arguments on here are just "muh China bad" or "look at these other people doing something"