Unfortunate that he got caught. He was simply playing the same game the corps do but since he isn't mega rich he gets punished.

I used to have a program called netlimiter (needed to throttle individual aop downloads on a shared WISP that was slow as balls). I bought a lifetime license like 10 years ago because I liked the software. A couple years ago they got rid of the old version and bumped me up to the new version. About a year ago I got an email saying something along the lines of "pay our new subscription fee or you lose your access" and basically put me on a trial account. I pirated their old version years ago to see if I liked the software enough after a couple months. I no longer use that software.

Another time I bought a lifetime access for a game on patreon. About 2 years later the dev switched to a subscription only fee to access all the new content and never released anything from updated versions to the older public release. So essentially I bumped down to a free tier of access to a game I paid for.

I will pirate until I die. Fuck these douchebags.

When was the last time a corporation got anything other than a slap on the wrist and a small donation to the government just so they could keep doing what they're doing?

No you see the corporations will just lobby until the courts get enough money to classify AI as it's own individual entity, just like with citizens united.

Pretty sure I am at this point. Yoghaus or however it's spelled must suck Putin's dick or something. Funny thing is he accused me of being xenophobic after I said China should probably back up their previous claims of stealth fighter detection before claiming their newest system makes stealth fighters 60,000 times easier to detect. Actual words in the article lmao.

To them photographs are all made with fisheye lenses which is why only the earth looks round and distorted but fucking nothing else in the same frame.

It really is telling when people can't get help without having to give money to mega corporations.

As an American usually that means they're swamped and need the extra labor but aren't willing to pay for another employee. Germany might be different in general but it could also depend on the company.

Lol no they didn't.