These days they can update it with “don’t waste your eggs, there are kids in America whose family can’t even afford them”

Man yeah, a country where you can be sent to an extra territorial jail with no due process and absolutely no recourse because the Man said so.
That sounds scary!

Would be interesting to see how they distinguish “personal consumption” and “transformative” consumption.

The AI did quite literally what any human educating themselves would have done : reading entire libraries to improve themselves. Then make money from it. So if little Timmy pirates 3DS Max or Photoshop to get a job, it’s fine yeah? Or a student trying to read their course without paying hundreds of dollars?

But wait, when Timmy reads a single virtual book, it’s thievery? It’s the loss of a sale? So how many sales were lost through all those virtual books stolen from paying customers by the AI?

They gotta decide one way or another at some point and stop taking the piss.

Also I wonder if the AI can actually remember the entire content of each book they read though. Or any. And if they do, then can that actually be proof, for each individual book thus regurgitated, that the copyright has been unfairly used since a full reproduction (or close enough as to fool a reader?) would be now available.

That’s gonna be some interesting jurisprudence.

Well, that might be the sign I was waiting for to switch (ha !) my kids to Steam, after all.

I kinda assumed it was more of a Prince of New York scenario, really.

A lot of US companies have been happy to relocate to Ireland and enjoy the tax breaks. No reason not to continue, I’d say.

Did the pigeon try the juice and keel over?

“rolling”, ha!

Your jesus like approach is nice and all, but a lot of people seem to only learn their lesson after they have suffered. I think we shouldn’t rejoice in their suffering and instead hope they learnt a fucking thing, but given their stupidity literally cost lives, I’d say you shouldn’t be surprised at people enjoying a bit of Schadenfreude.

Is the hacker known as 4Chan at it again?

One of those is not like the others…

For the record a decimeter is about 4 inches. “a few decimeters of metal” is a lot of metal.

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Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things." ― Terry Pratchett

If psychopaths have all the traits of succeful CEOs and these creeps are amongst the most successful CEOs of their times…

“I paid for WinRAR” with a Mister Moneybags kinda character saying it or something. That would be fun.

Metaphors don’t work on people like him.