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If I want to read a book, I have to buy a copy. Why should a big business worth billions be exempt from paying their license fee? Especially as I am reading the books for pleasure or for personal learning, their AIs are reading the books in order to earn further billions, so they should be paying more, if you want it to be fair.
The cost of those licences should be included in their business costs and their business plan. Maybe they should pay more for licences and plan less for lawyers, fines and bribing politicians…
Treating paying lawyers fees and fines as a business win, as opposed to following law is just crazy.
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The name of upcoming Starlink competitor, Taara means star in Hindi, Urdu and Sanskrit.
From perplexity:
In Sanskrit, Taara (तारा) means “star” or “planet,” signifying “shining” or “illumination”
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Patrick Beja is spot on regarding enabling competition. I don’t get how more tech reporters and opinionists cannot see this. It’s no worse than what Microsoft had to do in the wake of its own antitrust trial.
The problem with Apple telling developers that Android has greater market share worldwide is that US antitrust law is not concerned with the whole world - it’s concerned with the US market. It’s true - but it’s misleading (the term is paltering).
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I think Patrick did a great job explaining the dangers of a foreign directed influence operation. Having a foreign owned company swinging user sentiment is not equivalent to Facebook or Twitter. China benefits from undermining the western audiences on Tik Tok. The other platforms have no motivation to undermine western governments.
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Not true, Elon Musk and X tried very heavily to swing election results in Europe this year, supporting extreme right wing parties, Neo national socialists.
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