Im pretty much the same. I would never intentionally own a cat. They are terrible creatures. But I’m not going to hold it against my partners two cats that they are cats.

How is someone going to be compensated for their creative work if anyone can come along and just make copies of it? Copyright prevents people from just making copies of other people’s work. You want to do away with copyright, thus removing that protection and severely hindering the ability of anyone to make money from creative works.

Maybe you can point out where I said what you claimed I said.

I guess I’ll just reply with your own comment:

It isn’t about what the charges are it is about what people think. If we redefined the crime of murder as “foo” and charged people the same way it isn’t like murder went away.

Whatever value copyright was supposed to give us it has failed to do so. Abolish it.

Maybe you don’t actually know what abolish means?

You want to do away with copyright. Maybe think a bit harder about the implications of the things you think you want.

You’re making a distinction without a difference. Nobody has any fucking clue who their “genetic match” will be nor does anyone have any fucking clue who else is using 23andMe. Sharing that information is not meaningfully different than just sharing it with the world at large.

What a weird stance that you don’t think anyone should be able to be compensated for their work. That’s literally what the purpose of copyright is.

You’re also missing something very important. A lot of the things these people see as “their problems” have been implanted into their heads by shitheads on talk radio, TV, social media, YouTube, etc for the benefit of the wealthy. If you’re too busy worrying about trans people and illegal immigrants, you’re not going to pay much attention to the rich fucks paying you a pittance and hoovering up the planet’s resources for themselves.

You have to understand that conservative media right now barely features anything that Trump actually has said or done. It’s all made up bullshit and mythology about him and how great his is. My own mother consumes this media all the time and has told me that Trump looks healthier and stronger than ever. That’s what these people are being fed.

They’re too busy consuming media that tells them that he’s basically the second coming of Jesus.

Were you under the impression that Amazon was going to assign you the copyright to the song or movie that you purchased?

You realize that the developers all got paid before the game was even released, right? They were getting paychecks the whole time.

Without a legal system and legal definitions, your claim of ownership doesn’t mean anything, rendering your entire argument pointless.

How is it not stale? The inaccurate and dishonest framing of a situation from this meme isn’t going to convince anyone of anything.

Nobody gets charged with theft for downloading movies and music. They get hit with copyright infringement. Doesn’t matter if you buy physical media that you owned or digital media that you licensed, either way you never purchased the copyright.

…because those 7 million people opted into sharing their data with everyone else.

Yes, as it turns out, becoming the elected leader of millions/billions of people does get you some special treatment that you didn’t get before.

those people aren’t our friends. They’re known to chant “Death to America”. They include the kind of terrorists who would commit the October 7th attacks, and most Palestinians support that kind of terrorism.

Why do you think that is?

This is more than likely him getting started with reining Israel in. I expect more serious measures to follow soon.

That’s kind of silly comparison, as that money wouldn’t have been available to invest if it hadn’t been spent on a home. It would have been spent on rent instead.

I’m not understanding what the conflict is between being able to locate a thing and that thing being available for use.

AI still doesn’t “understand” language or pictures or anything else. It’s little more than statistical analysis based on text and input from humans tagging photos. The fact that we can get some neat output is not indicitive that any understanding is going on behind the scenes.