If your business modell only works if you don't follow any moral or official laws...it shouldn't exist!
Unfortunately, capitalism doesn't work like that...
If your business modell only works if you don't follow any moral or official laws...it shouldn't exist!
Unfortunately, capitalism doesn't work like that...
But, but the corporations are telling us that they loose so much money from all those people who are pirating and therefore not 'buying' their stuff.
I mean the numbers they showed where huge! Hmm, maybe they forgot to carry the one or swapped some +/- diring their calculations.
Yes the fines are not high enough. IMHO there should be two payments: a return of all earnings which are related to the violation PLUS a hefty fine and/or jail for the executives
That's the only way it isn't cost efficient for the big companies to ignore the laws. Also, make sure the fines are actually paid in full and in a reasonable amount of time
I really like the idea, Im currently struggling with the implementation. There are so many issues to cover:
There are so many loopholes which corps will use to get out of it :-(
The app is intentional, with browsers they can't control which extensions you run, and therefore can't force their ads on you. With the app they can control the environment and you are legally not allowed to modify their app because trademark....
Also, it might be annonymized for this dataset, by adding more 'annonymized' datasets stuff can be correlated
I'm happy to dunk on musk as much as the next guy, but that title is bull.
Lightyears measure distance not time, how can they mess that up?
Also, there's usually no reason as a user to pay monthly for a feature in a self-hosted application.
The Dev has no monthly costs for that feature. Let me buy the application/feature, and if you need money for a new feature, create a feature that is worth buying again. No need to bully the user into a monthly subscription...
There are always two opinions: mine and the wrong one
I once had a valid office key... But since I reset my computer to often the amount of "free activations" was used up... There where so many hoops to jump through to re-activate it that it was easier to get a cracked key to activate my office version... That's just sick
The problem with ads is not a few ads here and there, it's how it negatively impacts every interaction with those sites:
There was also a report recently that google also screwed their customers (those companies who pay for the ads) where google showed ads as in-stream ads in some auto-running videos in the background.
The whole industey is just broken. Present me with non-intrusive, static ads served from your own site and nobody bats an eye (also ad blockers are a non-issue then)
The big issue is that they don't just "do not ask", they also actively ignore if it if someone tells "no" upfront. E.g. in a robots.txt