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"As long as you love each other more than you hate Mark #Zuckerberg, you'll hold each other hostage on Mark Zuckerberg's #platform " -- Cory Doctorow while explaining #enshittification

@snow IMHO #piracy should only be considered "#theft" [with damages being limited to the cost of properly licensing it!] if the pirated material was still offered for licensing new under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.

• I.e. if a #game has been #delisted and the #platform it was released on is #EoL'd then there should be no claim to "damages" as the #IP holder did not provide a way to #license said content or otherwise comply with #copyright.

In the past, #EA did offer to replace broken discs / cartridges for a nominal fee [AFAIK €10 per disc or €15 for double-discs] if people mailed in the original (broken) media. I'd say that is should apply to everything, tho granted that only allows people in theory to deal with #DiscRot (assuming the publisher is able and willing to perpetually honour this service), not allowing them to legally attain new licenses.

• As a matter of fact #Adobe canceled #OneTimePurchase options for their #CreativeSuite after they got successfully sued into allowing people to #sell and #transfer #licenses for their #CS6 and other products.

#Valve & #Steam legally workaround this by merely providing access and not a #license per-se.

• Still, I think #piracy in almost all cases is (as GabeN correctly said:) "A services problem!" and if a product is fairly priced and then people will be willing to pay for it.

I just think that the rampant Enshittification of even #PhysicalMedia is unsustainable and I wish for an #OpenSource #competitor to #BDXL and it's #OnlineDRM!

But now, acc/to internal company docs obtained by NPR, up to 90% of all risk assessments will soon be automated.

In practice, this means things like critical updates to #Meta's #algorithms, new #safety features & changes to how #content is allowed to be shared across the company's platforms will be mostly approved by a system powered by #ArtificialIntelligence — no longer subject to scrutiny by staffers tasked w/debating how a #platform change could have unforeseen repercussions or be misused.

@lettuce point is #Apple - unlike #Microsoft with #WinRT & #UWP - knows how to attract #developers and maintain a "#premium #platform" with excellent, free toolchains [#Xcode!] to get running.

• Whereas with #Windows and espechally #WindowsMobile, development was seen as an essential chore and #3rdParty #Apps got sales because Microsoft refused to make their own okay options.