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I was joking, but it was my actual thought process when I responded to Google’s email about this by deleting my Play Games profile altogether.

Also, I haven’t played a new Android game in years.

My Steam history isn’t intimately tied to my bowel movements though. This is more personal.

Pirate everything, and share as much as you’re able.

Small fires can prevent larger ones in the future.

Yeah, seems like a silly one to hate on. They’ll all have AI usage policies in some form before long. Might as well get ahead of the obvious.

How do you figure?

Arr, ye be wantin’ the secrets o’ the Servarr fleet, eh? Then lend me yer ears:

Sonarr – This be the lookout in the crow’s nest, keepin’ watch fer new episodes o’ yer favorite shows. When it spies ‘em, it signals the crew to fetch ‘em down from the digital seas.

Radarr – Aye, this one’s the treasure hunter, scourin’ the oceans fer full-length films instead o’ episodes. It marks the map, finds the booty, an’ brings the shiny reels aboard.

Lidarr – The ship’s bard, huntin’ down new shanties an’ albums to keep the crew’s spirits high on long voyages.

Readarr – A learned scribe, fetchin’ tomes an’ scrolls fer them what likes a quiet night with words instead o’ waves.

Bazarr – The translator, givin’ ye subtitles fer shows an’ films in whatever tongue ye fancy, so no sailor be left in the dark.

Prowlarr – The scout, integratin’ all yer trackers an’ indexers into one mighty spyglass, so the rest o’ the crew can search the seas more smartly.

All together, they be runnin’ like a well-oiled pirate crew, each wit’ a role in findin’, organizin’, and keepin’ yer plundered media shipshape.

This is the answer. Much more reliable than the killswitches.

Needs more em dashes.

The study seems to have been pulled from the total pool of all Epic visits. That means it includes large, better funded hospitals in the proportion they are of the ER visits. I don’ think it’s safe to say it’s rare in larger hospitals. It might be more common in rural ones, but it appears to be worse than it was 5 years ago across the board.

Google has 182k employees as of 2023 (at least according to Wikipedia). There’s no way to have that many people and not have one slip up once in a while.

Yes. It may deflect some of the legal responsibility, but it’s still more of a “how they got breached” than “they didn’t get breached.”

Sailing the high seas solves those problems too. Forego Amazon Prime and just steal your shit from their cargo ships.

Has more to do with the distribution than the definition. If everyone were either a moron or genius, nobody would be average without changing the definition.

This logic does no justice to the objective financial harm being done to the creators/owners of valuable data/content/media.

It does though, since no harm is being done.

The original creator/owner is at a loss when data is copied. The intent of that data is to be copied for profit. Now that the data has been copied against the creator/owners will, they do not receive the profit from that copy.

They also don’t receive profit from not copying, unless there’s a purchase made. By your logic, watching something on Netflix or listening to it on the radio is actively harmful to creators, which I think most people can admit is absurd.

but having free copies of the content available on the internet decreases the desire for people to obtain paid copies of the data.

You made this assertion, but don’t really back it up. If you were correct here, being able to copy cassette tapes or burn cds would have killed the music industry decades ago. Piracy is the original grassroots promotional method.

At the very least it gives people an option not to pay for the data, which is not what the creator wanted in creating it.

That’s a separate argument and doesn’t relate at all to the supposed financial harm.

They are entitled to fair compensation to their work.

That’s a loaded assertion. If I sing a song right now, what am I entitled to be paid for it? And you’re ignoring that most of the “work” of being a musician (in most genres at least) is playing live performances, the experience of which cannot be pirated.

It is true that pirating is not directly theft, but it does definitely take away from the creator’s/distributor’s profit.

I don’t think it’s definite at all. Most of what musicians make these days is from merch and ticket sales, which piracy contributes to by bringing in new fans.

Posts about the initiative and what they’re trying to do could absolutely happen without the rest of it. What a silly comment.

It’s strange how I’ve seen almost nothing about the initiative itself and what it’s trying to accomplish, but dozens of posts about the signature count and comments about the youtube drama.

Also how everyone on the Teams call discovers you’ve got them.

They definitely had what I was looking for…