MentalEdge

Or you could just read the one book eight times for 99.6℅. Why buy more than one when one is enough to read as many times as you like?

SMH, that's not how books work. What a complete waste of money. You only needed to buy one copy, to then read it twice.

Spotify is losing nothing. They take their cut either way.

The only people getting their money stolen are real artists. Their share of the income shrinks as these scammers inflate the number of plays that the money is shared between.

AFAIK YT Music does this. The money from your subscription gets divided amongst whatever you listened to.

That still wouldn't address the stolen account problem, but yes, it'd be a huge improvement.

I have no idea why Spotify still sticks to this massively exploitable model, except for the fact that it MASSIVELY inflates their stats for investors and advertisers.

No.

By inflating his own playcounts, the value of each play goes down. All that money he got? Came straight out of the pockets of real artists.

No.

Music play-farming has been a thing for probably almost a decade by now.

Spotify divides the huge amount of money they get from subscribers each month, evenly among all the plays during that month.

Someone figured out ages ago, that since spotify has a free tier, that means that if you can get some tracks on spotify as an artist, you can then create an army of free-tier bot accounts and massively inflate the share of the money you get paid as an "artist".

Of course, this comes at the cost of everyone elses legit plays becoming worth less. Its an absolutely disgusting scam and Spotify has been ignoring it happening for years.

Adding AI generation into the mix is barely an innovation.

Edit: And if you're wondering how it works with services that don't have a free tier, it is done by hijacking peoples real accounts, then having them stream the relevant tracks over and over. Either by stealing entire accounts, or infecting devices that are already logged in with malware that will open the relevant app/website and play the tracks over and over.

You're not wrong.

The kind of art humanity creates is skewed a lot by the need for it to be marketable, and then sold in order to be worth doing.

But copyright is better than nothing, and this exemption would straight up be even worse than nothing.

The whole point of copyright in the first place, is to encourage creative expression, so we can have human culture and shit.

The idea of a "teensy" exception so that we can "advance" into a dark age of creative pointlessness and regurgitated slop, where humans doing the fun part has been made "unnecessary" by the unstoppable progress of "thinking" machines, would be hilarious, if it weren't depressing as fuck.

Happy self-hosting matrix user with bridges to various chats, and I've successfully converted family to use it, too.

People really like having all their chats in one app.

It's not simple though. Matrix is the most complicated service I have to maintain.

Ok, but giving consumers control of THEIR data shouldn't be optional. Same way car manufacturers shouldn't get to decide who gets know about what happens inside YOUR car no matter how proprietary and unrepairable their internal systems get.

I'm a lot less happy about "both 'options' existing" when one is literally pushing for practices that should not be. Period.

I don't care whether you personally care about your game saves. The fact remains that you, or any given person, might, and that those cases shouldn't be an avenue to extort.

The main reason Nintendo gets away with it is that since you don't care, and since they are only mistreating a minority of their users, there is no big backlash.

Oh wow. This seems to do exactly what I've been looking for. Works with nordic languages, and with a longtap layer for numbers and symbols, so for my purposes seems perfect at a glance.

Did you mean unchallenged? Either way I agree, when I encounter people who believe things that are provably untrue, their views should be changed.

It's not always possible, but even then, challenging those ideas and putting the counterarguments right next to the insanity, inoculates or at least reduces the chance that other readers might take what the deranged have to say seriously.