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• On the post: Bethesda DMCAs Its Official Twitter Account Trying To Stop ‘Redfall’ Leaks

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 05 May, 2023 @ 06:59am

  No Man's Sky has never charged a penny for any of its dozen or so major updates. The game is almost unrecognizable now compared to what it was at launch. Mind you, they are still charging you close to full price to buy the game, but once you do you get ALL the updates they have done since launch and every future update at no extra cost.

• On the post: Bethesda DMCAs Its Official Twitter Account Trying To Stop ‘Redfall’ Leaks

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 03 May, 2023 @ 03:12pm

  You mean wait 6 months for the community to provide a mod to make the game closer to what it should have been at launch. Cause I'm not going near any Bethesda game that just launched till the modding community has had their chance at it.

• On the post: The Copyright Industry Is About To Discover That There Are Hundreds Of Thousands Of Songs Generated By AI Already Available, Already Popular

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2022 @ 03:25pm

  Didn't need an AI to do that, just some computer code. https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/music-copyright-algorithm-lawsuit-damien-riehl-a9364536.html

• On the post: J6 Suspect Challenges FBI’s Geofence Warrant, Exposing The Massive Scale Of The Fed’s Data Haul

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2022 @ 01:34pm

  As much as I would love to agree with you, we can't do that. The law has to be applied equally no matter how horrible the crime is. If the Constitution says "no general search warrents" then it means just that. To do otherwise is the first ateps off the slopes to tyranny.

• On the post: Congress Trying To Sneak Through Internet Link Tax To Funnel Cash To Private Equity Firms That Are Destroying Local Journalism

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2022 @ 12:46pm

  Our congress critters are more concerned about grandstanding or doing everything in their power to keep the other party from accomplishing anything then they are about debating and creating good and usefull laws.

• On the post: Canada Steals Cultural Works From The Public By Extending Copyright Terms

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2022 @ 01:59pm

  Shit like this is why people don't care about copyright and will just pirate a work. This is not how you build respect for a law and get people to abide by it.

• On the post: Ohio Cops Decide First Amendment Doesn’t Exist, Arrest Newspaper Editor For Committing Journalism

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2022 @ 11:41am

  Why do cops get a pass on using expired documents that allow them to do something otherwise illegal, but if I get pulled over with a 1 day expired driver's license or insurance card I get the rough end of the stick. The courts are there to help insure the other two branches don't overreach. If they had intended on a warrant to be open ended in terms of duration it could be executed they would have said so. If it is expired then it is expired, go get another one and explane to the court why you couldn't execute the first one.

• On the post: Attorney General Formally Bans The Collection Of Journalists’ Records During Leak Investigations

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2022 @ 07:41pm

  So does this mean they are going to back off on Wiki Leaks and Julian Assange?

• On the post: Don’t Expect The US Government To Actually Stop Elon From Buying Twitter

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2022 @ 01:01pm

  I would be very cautious about that. After all, no one expects the Spani... US Government Inquisition!

• On the post: Comedians Eric Andre, Clayton English Sue Atlanta Airport Cops Over Racially Motivated Stops

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2022 @ 03:06pm

  Even holding up people on the street is more dangerous: on the jet bridge, the TSA already has made sure that no defensive weapons remain in the passengers’ possession.

  What surprises me more is that there is actually any cash left for them to take from the passenger. The TSA is better at spotting and reporting large amounts of cash then it is in spotting a weapon.

• On the post: Hundreds Of Authors Ask Publishers To Stop Attacking Libraries

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2022 @ 10:01am

  You do realize that the only way the library can get those ebooks to lend out is to agree to the drm method of choice made by the publisher, right?

• On the post: Congress’ Kids Online Safety Act Puts Kids At Risk Through Fuzzy Language

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2022 @ 03:14pm

  And this is why I really wish that after a bill has been voted on by Congress and signed by the President it immediately goes before SCOTUS for a yay/nay on it being constitutional. Waiting till someone has been harmed by a bill is already too late, "making good the damage dealt" is never as good an option as preventing the damage in the first place.

• On the post: Ohio Court Says Distance Learning ‘Room Scans’ Violate The Fourth Amendment

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2022 @ 03:56pm

  I work at a School of Nursing. For something routine, sure that nurse can take a moment to go look up some obscure method of care but I don't want them taking a minute to look something up in a crisis situation. There are some things that are critical they know front, back, and side to side, tis why when they take their exam on medication dosage they are only allowed to get 1 wrong answer. Anything else means someone could die.

• On the post: Huge News: Biden Administration Announces All Publicly Funded Research Should Be Available For Free To The Public

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2022 @ 10:20am

  If that means we get more and better research, I don't see an issue with that.

• On the post: Bail Conditions For Arrested Australian Activists Demand The Impossible: No Using Encrypted Applications

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2022 @ 10:42am

  Can they even use the internet in general? Every browser defaults to HTTPS which I'm pretty sure uses an encrypted data stream.

• On the post: Arizona Makes It Illegal To Record Cops From Less Than Eight Feet Away

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2022 @ 10:32am

  If the idiot Officer approaches someone filming them and begins to question them, the filmer falls into that exception of filming while being questioned and less than 8 feet away.

• On the post: Copyright Is Bananas: Case Over Copyright Of A Banana Taped To A Wall Allowed To Move Forward

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2022 @ 09:49am

  Not sure what all the fuss is about. Both of them were just showing everyone how big the walls actually were.

• On the post: US Postal Service Sued For Seizing ‘Defund Police’ Facemasks

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2022 @ 11:59am

  Why not both?

• On the post: Following Crime Increases, US City Governments Decide It’s Time To Sacrifice Liberty For Safety

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 26 May, 2022 @ 12:12pm

  The quality of images from the vast majority of security cameras is so low I don't see how they can get any sort of match confidence. Also there have been plenty of reports about how the various systems get the wrong face on minorities, and New Orleans is 60% black or African-American.

• On the post: Lawsuit Attempts To Hold TikTok Responsible For Death Of 10-Year-Old Girl Who Engaged In A ‘Blackout Challenge’

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 19 May, 2022 @ 08:51am

  Oh I'm not arguing that the parents didn't have a responsibility to be doing the parental oversight thing. I'm just asking if tiktoc can get dinged for letting a 10 year old on in the first place cause that law I mentioned in the first post says child accounts have to be treated differently and with more "safeguards "

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