I like it. That's the thing about art. Some people like it. Some people don't. You don't get to define what is or isn't art for me. I get to define it for me. That's what's so awesome about it.

Also, get used to it. AI isn't ever ever going away. This is just the beginning. So pace your hate.

Their issue isn’t that they want to avoid it, they want to stamp it out, they want it gone

Exactly this. These sorts of people don't want to co-exist. They want to bully us out of existence.

and even impersonated me for running such communities.

Sorry you've had to go through that. I have been through that too (and still have it happen). So I know how frustrating it is. People on Lemmy can be super weird.

I'm all for OP's solution, but like you, I don't it will solve much because of just how much people like to stir up drama. They won't use those tags to block, they'll use those tags to find and harrass.

YDI

BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction. Seems it was posted to a conservative community just to provoke reaction. (Edited comment to remove pointing to OP because OP wasn't the poster of the comment that got removed.)

Holy shit! I'm 100 percent guilty of this. Because I was around in the times the original phrase was used, and I guess the meme replaced my memory.

I was just going off my (now proven false) memories of the time.

Thanks for this. Updated the article!

Thanks, mate!

EDIT: thanks to @melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone for pointing out that the download phrase is the meme phrase, the actual phrase was “You wouldn’t steal a car." :)

Big box stores have distribution agreements and have negotiated terms.

The guy in my article didn't, which is why he got in trouble.

Big corps always find a way.

Oh! a zine!! Now that is a fun idea! Holy shit, I haven't given thought to that. I'll see if I can use AI to throw together some sorta non-commerical blog site with the look of a zine.

Cuz I like writing, I like tech (tho new to a lot of it), but I hate building a website. I'm new to everything, but it's one of the few things that I don't wanna learn how to build.

I've spent 3 fucking weeks trying to work on a piece of shit ancient OLPC I have, to see if I can load a different version of Linux to it. But the idea of spending hours building a website, ugh... Sounds painful.

I'll see if there are cool zine templates out there that I can steal or something.

Fun idea. Thanks, mate!

Sacrilege! May your data streams be corrupted and your access to shared knowledge be denied!

I'm bound by honor to copy your statement and use it as my own, whenever and wherever I please! :)

In 1981, Robert Tripp, editor and publisher of MICRO: The 6502 Journal, likened the copying of software to the photocopying of a magazine and acknowledged that MICRO would have no livelihood if readers could simply get the content free or at minimal cost.

Thus began the drama of copy protection, an industrial loss prevention practice wherein companies used a combination of hardware and software techniques to scramble the data on software media formats, typically 5.25-inch floppy disks, so that copying the disk was no longer possible by conventional means. While the goal of this subtle bit of friction was to throttle piracy, it also prevented users from creating backup copies of software they legally owned, or otherwise accessing the code itself.

Reddit gets worse every day.

Free flow of knowledge is absolutely essential. Of all the things that should be accessible knowledge and the opportunity for every person to realize their full potential should be a must.

I totally agree. I often think about self-taught scientists like Michael Faraday or Mary Anning and what they’d say about how hard it is to access knowledge today, even with all the tech we have. Back in the 1800s, they had to hunt down books, write letters to experts, and dig through whatever scraps of info they could find. Now we’ve got the internet, but somehow it’s still locked behind paywalls and profiteers trying to gatekeep learning.