Whenever people ask why anyone makes open source software for free, I’m going to use this as a metaphor.

Dang, a whole dollar? I would sell origami tanks for 25¢ each, didn’t realize people would pay more than that.

I thought so too. I remember looking for alternatives for when it would be removed completely.

That’s you assuming all things are equal.

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Output from an AI has just been recently considered as not copyrightable.

Where can I read more about this? I’ve seen it mentioned a few times, but never with any links.

Really hits weird when a video talking about something so serious has a thumbnail that looks like it could be on a video about Fortnite.

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Idk, the piracy community is huge here. Of all communities I’ve looked at, it’s by far the most active.

As someone very uninformed about Brave, what is unethical about it?

it can fuck up microsoft office formatted documents.

The problem there is not with LibreOffice, but with Microsoft Office. They do not implement the format standard correctly.

Not that it eliminated your problem, but it’s important to understand who the real culprit is and why.

It should probably also be mentioned that she was laid off, not fired.

She was also the producer for Lightyear, which imo was not a very good movie.

When I was about ten years old, I bought the game Warrior Kings while visiting my grandparents using my birthday money. When I got home, I tried to install it on our computer, only to discover that the game wouldn’t install because of some DRM thing. Years later, I discovered what really happened was that the copy I bought was apparently not an original disc, but as a kid I had no way to know. I spent hours trying to install it, attempting many times over the next month. The pictures on the box looked so dang cool, but I never did get to play it.

DRM hurts consumers. When you aren’t able to use software you yourself paid for, that’s a negative. There is no benefit for the consumer, the benefit is only for the seller.

Reading that argument makes me feel like we’ve made it as a platform 👍

Yeah, just seeing that it will collect data about me for personalized ads was a turnoff. There are plenty of Lemmy clients without ads. I can’t imagine seeing ads while using Lemmy, either.

From what I remember, they only asked for a username and an optional email address.

Yep. A commercial license is $940 a year, and as far as I understand you need a separate license for each person using it.

Fairly sure that’s a well-known issue. Not sure if it’s been fixed on new versions, but I think there are workarounds for it at least.

Right, the best way to win here is just not to play. Stop watching content on YouTube altogether. Find alternative ways to watch that content, or simply don’t watch it at all.