end-users are rarely prosecuted or sued over piracy so idk why corporations wouldn’t get the same deal.

this is a big nothingburger if you wanna be honest.

piracy is much like drugs, where the occasional dealer gets nabbed if they’re too ostentatious but otherwise things just go on and on and on and on.

bad history.

even in 2007, piracy was a niche thing. your lame cousin probably didn’t download from demonoid or the pirate bay. more people did then than now but it wasn’t substantial.

there was still a reason to pirate even with netflix–there was a ton of content not available on DVD at that time.

at least 10 years ago all the good private torrent sites became severely restricted, some even entirely closing the doors for new members.

not sure where this piracy resurgence is going on, but it’s not on the good sites.

explain why an AGI would propel intellectual and economic growth past its creator’s peers.

we already feed all of human knowledge into these dumbass chatbots and don’t get anything out of it other than super-autist pattern recognition.

“but if it could think, it would immediate solve all the problems plaguing humanity” – says the dumbass AI bro.

this article is stupid for another reason: go on youtube and look up camcorder footage of public high schools in the 90s.

absolutely NOBODY is anxious about getting filmed, and nobody has bad intentions, and nobody would write an article about it.

maybe things ARE worse but maybe the situation is more complex than meta glasses.

the memory of china spans 3k years. think about that. we dwell hard and long about the history of america and that only goes back a few hundred. and that was a time full of witch hunts, slavery and other controversial topics that’d make a great movie but come off as embarrassing in reality.

we came up with the television and the atom bomb–i say big deal. the chinese were there through thousands of years of advancements and follies, enduring and enduring and keeping their national strength through the unbearable weight of millennia. this is when americans can’t go without their smartphone for 60 seconds and believe in nothing other than legal tender.

industrial capitalism is 200 years old, the chinese are as old as mars in comparison. put that in your pipe and smoke it.

why is this a controversy though?

this type of bullshit is common across the repair industry but we expect computer techs to be scrupulous? the entire business model likely depends on scamming people.

with cars there’s at least an excuse to put up with it in most cases. it can be labor intensive and require real tools to replace a component like an alternator on many models. even a bold and confident novice is going to feel anxiety when a bolt won’t come off and think to themselves ‘this isn’t worth dealing with.’

but if you can’t figure out how to ‘wipe windows’ or replace a ram stick with the power of the internet at your disposal you deserve to be scammed. do you have a philips head from dollar general, a usb stick and did you play with legos as a child? then you can do 100% of computer repair work.

on top of that, the entire IT methodology is to run a few basic windows commands in the console like ‘sfc /scannow’ and then reinstall windows if it doesn’t work.

AI has gone rogue and turned into a hollywood movie hacker!!!

obvious sensationalism to hype up their dumb models that can’t generate a nuanced background in an image because it was trained on 3483048304834 images of instagram models posing in empty hotel rooms.

an intelligent business would take a long, hard look at their practices and their leadership and find out why they’re failing so hard.

another obvious sign america is run by idiots–we can’t even do business right even though it’s all we supposedly care about.

i’ve never been terrified of anything, except a fox. i watched that episode of x-files that featured the chupacabra and then encountered a fox out in the wild–you can imagine this loss of suburban innocence if you think hard about it and use your imagination. now, a typical fox looks nothing like a mexican goatsucker (maybe if it was bulked up with cans of goya black beans and had bigger teeth) but it put the scare into me because i had only encountered the occasional groundhog and stray cat at night; back then you didn’t see too many bums around.

one of those stray cats used to come around a lot and i named it ‘sugar’ because it was stark white and that song fly was on the radio a lot, the one by that band sugar ray. and after it hung around for awhile (i would leave out bush’s baked beans in a tupperware container because i felt bad) it became part of the family. i renamed it ‘yeti’ because i thought sugar was too homoerotic but that’s for another post.

“tech executive here, did you guys know i named my company after lord of the rings? i read it in high school…”

redditor: "holy shit guys, did you know tech executives were this smart? i was never into cuck porn before this post but now i’m a true believer.’

dumb people have always bought crap. just because components are more expensive doesn’t change anything–a savvy computer user is always going to go for pre-built. i’d personally take out a loan before i bought a meta pc even if steep discounts are on the menu.

it also makes me think that all the conspiratorial talk is just talk. maybe all these companies are conspiring to raise prices so they can sell you garbage like this pathetic excuse for a pc.

but that doesn’t fit into the ‘all rich people are geniuses’ narrative. greed doesn’t require intelligence. even someone with an intense hunger and a 50 IQ is gonna try and put their hand into your burger king bag and swipe a fry or two.

market research firm lol. get a real job.

travelling salesmen who pirate all their media??

who is this for?

those unicorn users who make 150k++ a year and pirate all their media and then wanna share it with their friends that they don’t have?