Deathcrow

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

What is your take on this particularly in relation to the SAG-AFTRA strike over streaming residuals? Even if you want to pay for a creator’s work, most ways to consume content now mostly does not get to the creators of a work.

On general principal I always support workers rights to strike and applaud them for fighting for a higher wage.

My personal opinion in this particular case: Many writers in this industry very much overvalue their worth, especially considering the low-brow content they create (10 years or more of capeshit), how replaceable they are (barely any original idea in sight), the low general quality of their work (I'm not even watching this shit for free, you'd have to pay me) and the encroaching power of AI. I've never seen such a long-string of garbage writing coming from Hollywood (or maybe I'm just lucky having observed a golden age of TV) and I've not seen a similar decline in quality from other craftsmen (cinematography, acting, sound and music...) in the industry. Maybe writers can make some short-term gains, but unless they hone their craft to bring it above the level of what ChatGPT can create right now, they are going to lose their power struggle in the long run.

I’m not even sure how renting or buying a title through a digital service like amazon or google is distributed to creators vs how much goes to the platform and copyright holder.

Often there are options. Speaking about music: A spotify subscription is most likely useless for supporting smaller artists, but buying their merch or stuff from bandcamp is a no-brainer if you have the money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

schonmal drueber nachgedacht, dass, falls diese Kommentare existieren, sie einfach nur die Satire mitspielten? Wäre nicht das erste mal. Denn wenn kein "Der Postillon" oder "/s" drauff steht, verstehen leider viele Leute (vielleicht Leute wie du) Satire und Sarkasmus nicht.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

Kann mir jemand sagen ob das, wie im Artikel behauptet, tatsächlich irgendwas mit Klima- oder Naturschutz zu tun hat? Intuitiv erschließt sich mir das nämlich nicht, wie ein paar sortenreine Grashalme dazu beitragen können (wir reden ja nicht von Wildwiesen!), und ich vermute, dass hier eher der Klimaschutz als Steigbügelhalter dient, um das klassische deutsche kleinbürgerliche Gartengedünkel durchzusetzen. Das Thema ist nämlich schon deutlich älter als Naturschutz und wenig freut den typischen Allmann mehr, als irgendwelche Vorschriften über das Grundstück und "ach wie sieht das denn aus!? Ohgottohgott..." gegenüber seinen Nachbarn durchzusetzen

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)

Right now, AI-generated works aren’t copyrightable. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ai-generator-art-text-us-copyright-policy-1234661683/ This means you can not copyright the works produced by AI.

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So right now, common AI is producing works that are potentially copyright-infringing works and are unable to be copyrighted themselves.

This kind of judgement is pure symbolic politics, because it's completely unenforceable and I'm confused why you didn't mention it. No one can prove if a piece of art is AI made and no one has to admit it. So yes, AI art can be copyrighted, just not officially as AI art, but it certainly will be and likely already is as long as there's a human 'stand in'.

There's a huge gulf of difference between a matter of fact and a matter of law.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

In what situations do you think is not OK to pirate something?

Never pay money for pirated content or ask someone to pay money for pirated content. Donations to keep a site running are borderline and iffy, depending on the implementation and transparency. As soon as you earn any kind of revenue or treat it as your 'job' it crosses into the unethical IMO.

Second point related to money: Pirating stuff you could easily pay for is probably bad, if the creator receives $0 from you. There might still be reasons to do so (not wanting to support DRM for example), but if you got the cash you better find a way to support the actual creators (merch, donations...). The smaller the author the heavier the moral responsibility to bring some money their way. This also weighs in the other direction: It's probably accetpable or even good to not give more money to giant corporations that abuse intellectual property for their own gains and who shit on creators.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

lol...

Das ZDF hat sich von einem Tweet des Satirikers Jan Böhmermann zu CDU-Chef Friedrich Merz abgegrenzt. »Das ZDF distanziert sich von der Äußerung Böhmermanns. Der Tweet ist eine private Äußerung von Jan Böhmermann, die in keinem Zusammenhang mit einer Produktion des ZDF steht«, teilte der Sender mit.

Diese Distanzierung hat natürlich die, nicht so unterschwellige, Konnotation, dass so eine Äußerung durch Böhmermann in einem offiziellen Format von den Zensoren des ZDF nicht gestattet worden wäre. Gut zu wissen, wie es mit Politsatire steht. Blos nicht die Gefühle irgendwelcher CDU "Politiker" slash Witzfiguren verletzen.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How dare people try to mod a game they bought? What a sad state of affairs, Diablo 2 had such awesome mods.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

These conversion & deconversion stories always go the same way:

"I'm an impressionable fuckwit who immediately gets on the first ride that looks appealing. But soon I realized I wanted to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride, because it looked much cooler than it actually was. Whew what a relief when I got off. Let me tell you about my current ride, which is much better, the most important ride of the world and you should definitely get on it too. Everyone who doesn't get on THIS ride (which is definitely the correct one to be on) is evil and dooming humanity!

I'm a reformed person."

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Half of a fuck-ton is still a lot. If they scale down their operational costs they can still run a very comfortable business for a long while on these kinds of numbers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

We can totally do it. Let’s work togheter and let’s work hard, there’s nothing more beautiful than to think of possible solutions that would make us all live better.

Maybe we can. But climate preservation is clearly not working: Humanity is not disciplined enough, not capable of working together enough and too focused on short term gains.

I think our only hope for optimism lies in climate engineering and full-on terraforming, it's more our style. But of course, it's about just as scary and can go totally wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

God bless the hackers, crackers, reverse engineers, and disrupters. Pray they help keep you free of too much pain.

That's delusional. As soon as more and more parts of software are run remotely on proprietary hard- & software there will be nothing to hack or crack. Sure, someone could reverse engineer it, but there aren't enough hobbyists in the world to rewrite all this software.

We see this more and more in gaming... it used to be the case that they just gave you the software to run your own game in multiplayer setups, nowadays, if they shut off the servers, the game is dead (unless, someone releases a very wonky, extremely buggy, barely usable, reverse engineered server with 10% of the features some time down the line)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

du gehst davon aus dass das normal denkende Menschen sind, die diese Partei wählen. Alles was du genannt hast, sehen die einfach anders…

ja, aber das is echt harter tobak wenn man nicht mal reflektieren und 3 jahre zurueckblickt und merkt dass nichts an das was man geglaubt hat, wahr geworden ist.

Und dann kommen da natuerlich auch noch absolute no-brainer seit der 90er Jahre, wie Klimawandel dazu, denen typische AfD waehler aus unerklaerlichen Gruenden skeptisch gegenueberstehen... weil jugendliche da protestieren und das nervt auf dem Weg zur Arbeit oder so.

Ich fühle mich so abgeschottet wie nie von einem nicht zu vernachlässigbaren Teil der Bevölkerung, der JETZT diese partei noch wählt... und das als jemand der vor 2 Jahren selber noch verständnis gezeigt hat mit Leuten die mit alternativen Ideologien sympathisieren (corona war eine echte krise und ich fand das okay, dass das einige triggert und irrationale ängste auslöst, insbesondere wenn der Staat teilweise tatsächlich ein bisschen zu weit geht was Maßnahmen angeht)

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