The academic publishing grift is based on the same “IP” as proprietary software.

Grift recognize grift.

IP is trash but it’s not going to be fixed by pseudo-scientific capitalist ideology.

Cyberghost is untrustable.

• https://masjidalaqsa.com/boycott/cyberghost-vpn-israel-bds
• https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/what-is-kape-technologies-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-parent-company-of-cyberghost-vpn/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Express_VPN/comments/pp6lwf/former_malware_distributor_kape_technologies_now/

Isn’t the FBI supposed to be non-political?

😂

They should show some pictures of the real leeches.

• https://www.fastcompany.com/3052267/the-house-that-calculus-built
• https://apnews.com/a-look-at-how-settlements-have-grown-in-the-west-bank-over-the-years-0000019079d8d0f6a3da79dcbd0a0000

I think the whole point is that the actresses didn’t agree to be jerked off to going in.

I don’t think anybody agrees to being jerked off to or not. There’s no contract between actors and audience.

These agreements see libraries license ‘official’ e-book versions from publishers, who charge for every book that’s lent out to patrons.

So it’s not “unlikely” that it will fuck over libraries. It’s already happened.

Who would win?

• A website offering a public service for the benefit of humanity.
• Capitalists violently controlling imaginary “property” to the detriment of humanity.

I think we all know the answer.

The mothership is down? I didn’t even notice.

Imagine wasting your life on taking down these websites in service to corporations and billionaires.

Makes me feel better about my job.

Old versions of yt-dlp never work for me. Even after a few months, it’s usually time to upgrade.

Ah yes lawyering your way to riches. That’s never a bottomless black hole… \s

“No food grown that we do not own.”

Is lemmy overrun by monsanto shills like reddit yet? Anybody gonna come in here preaching the gospel of “GMOs” and extremely privatized food?

Pirating is good. Pirating ziohead is even better.

Having to rely on the United States for software including, Windows and Photoshop, is painful enough.

Thanks to linux and gimp, I’m more powerful and technologically advanced than one of the largest empires in history.

They reached out to several major publishers and partnered with an anti-piracy outfit, to test whether takedown efforts have a measurable effect on legitimate book sales… While the researchers found a small positive effect in the takedown category, it wasn’t pronounced enough to be statistically significant. Only after the researchers tried a Bayesian analysis, adding data from previous research, did they find an uptick in book sales.

Sounds like fair and unbiased science. \s

Yeah OP seems to imply there’s some kind of cyptographic security with NFTs. Nope! It’s literally just a URL on the blockchain pointing to a regular image on a regular server.

Victim blaming.

It’s so much more important for the system to violently control scientific research than any tv shows, movies, etc.

I use myinsta. It’s great for removing ads, etc. But there are some minor glitches (eg. repeatedly asking for contacts/location permissions) and it seems to take up more storage.