Davide DB Posted Sunday at 07:30 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:30 PM No further words Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted yesterday at 12:59 AM Administrators Share Posted yesterday at 12:59 AM Absolute scumbag behaviour from these American corporate fascists. The law and YouTube needs to stand up and say... enough. You should not be able to abuse so many innocent people via the legal system. It's all fair use. John Matthews and Davide DB 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted yesterday at 01:06 AM Administrators Share Posted yesterday at 01:06 AM Davide DB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatstoomuchjam Posted yesterday at 01:57 AM Share Posted yesterday at 01:57 AM Volkswagen are now selling you the whole car, but requiring a subscription to get the full performance of it. 🤮 https://fortune.com/2025/08/19/volkswagen-horsepower-subscription-economy-cost-features/ (Relevant to enshittification, not to copyright strikes) Davide DB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ND64 Posted yesterday at 10:58 AM Share Posted yesterday at 10:58 AM 8 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said: Volkswagen are now selling you the whole car, but requiring a subscription to get the full performance of it. 🤮 When you see even the Germans hire more bean counters than engineers to survive in a China dominated market, you know its bad. Everybody is pursuing easy money, all under umbrella of legal system. From subscriptions to patent trolling to copyright harassment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davide DB Posted yesterday at 01:54 PM Author Share Posted yesterday at 01:54 PM 12 hours ago, Andrew Reid said: The pattern is always the same: silencing those who are inconvenient to you through supposed copyright violations or lawsuits, knowing full well that 99% of the time, the people affected don't have the means or the funds to defend themselves. This is also a classic pattern in journalism here in The Banana Republic Of Italy. The big company or industrial group, or even the wealthy politician, sues the journalist. Anyway, they have a host of lawyers already on salary, and even if they lose the lawsuit, the amount doesn't even slightly affect their budget. Andrew Reid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davide DB Posted yesterday at 02:18 PM Author Share Posted yesterday at 02:18 PM I think this post is enough to understand where we are headed. Adobe's subscription model is laughable in comparison. https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/15/musklemons/ Quote Most modern cars have some kind of internet connection, but Tesla goes much further. By design, its cars receive "over-the-air" updates, including updates that are adverse to drivers' interests. For example, if you stop paying the monthly subscription fee that entitles you to use your battery's whole charge, Tesla will send a wireless internet command to your car to restrict your driving to only half of your battery's charge. This means that your Tesla is designed to follow instructions that you don't want it to follow, and, by design, those instructions can fundamentally alter your car's operating characteristics. For example, if you miss a payment on your Tesla, it can lock its doors and immobilize itself, then, when the repo man arrives, it will honk its horn, flash its lights, back out of its parking spot, and unlock itself so that it can be driven away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSMW Posted yesterday at 03:19 PM Share Posted yesterday at 03:19 PM 13 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said: Volkswagen are now selling you the whole car, but requiring a subscription to get the full performance of it If folks don't like this, the solution is easy, - don't buy a VW. Other cars are available. But it won't happen because out of all the cars they sell per annum, a couple of hundred will complain on their favourite social media platform, a couple more hundred will buy something else purely because of this and the other near 9 million, will just shrug and accept it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatstoomuchjam Posted yesterday at 04:45 PM Share Posted yesterday at 04:45 PM 1 hour ago, MrSMW said: If folks don't like this, the solution is easy, - don't buy a VW. Other cars are available. Yes, but as long as some people still buy VW and some people buy the upgrade, other car manufacturers will be inspired to do the same. This is how the enshittification race to the bottom works. It used to be that if I bought a plane ticket on any airline, I got a checked bag for free. Not only that, but overhead space was plentiful and I could be a bit chill about boarding the plane. Then one airline started charging for checked bags. When people didn't stop flying with them, the other airlines followed suit. After all, people are apparently willing to accept a shittier flying experience. Now checked bags cost money and overhead space is crammed full which makes me one of the annoying boarding buzzards circling around the boarding stanchions so that I can be sure to get on in time to put my camera bag above me and not get into an argument with the boarding agent about whether I'm going to gate check it (and no, gate agent, I cannot relocate all of the lithium batteries into my other much smaller "personal item" that goes under the seat in front of me). Anyway, the shrugging and accepting it is basically what is at the core of enshittification. Davide DB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSMW Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago 2 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said: Anyway, the shrugging and accepting it is basically what is at the core of enshittification. Indeed, but when the reality is the majority won’t do anything, except perhaps grumble on social media, the outcome is inevitable and it soon becomes the norm. I still need to look at how I can get out of the Adobe model, but 2 things stop me: 1. Big discount due to someone I know and 2. Not so much laziness, but rather it bores me to tears having to learn an entire new workflow that would have to replace multiple pieces of software I have used for over a decade. Most don’t have the luxury of 1. so makes 2. even harder. But ultimately, unless a greater majority or even simply a significant number that can cause a serious dent, act, then companies will exploit that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatstoomuchjam Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago 16 minutes ago, MrSMW said: unless a greater majority or even simply a significant number that can cause a serious dent, act, then companies will exploit that Yes, this is also a symptom of late-stage unrestrained capitalism when there is no longer a lot of competition in the market, but instead there are a handful of well-established/entrenched players who can gamble with losing some sales in the short term. Don't buy a VW this time around because they added a stupid subscription? They'll be in the running next time after all the others add shitty subscriptions too. The same applies to stuff like car vendors trying to move away from supporting Carplay/Android Auto because they really want to sell you subscriptions to connected features in the car, despite that you already have all of those things paid for in your phone already. MrSMW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yannick Willox Posted 10 hours ago Share Posted 10 hours ago 16 hours ago, Davide DB said: I think this post is enough to understand where we are headed. Adobe's subscription model is laughable in comparison. https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/15/musklemons/ One of the main problems is people reposting bullshit that is easy to prove wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatstoomuchjam Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago 5 hours ago, Yannick Willox said: One of the main problems is people reposting bullshit that is easy to prove wrong. Someone loves Eeeeelllllooooonnnnnnn. If you stan him enough online, maybe he'll be your friend and give you a billion of his dollars. Keep it up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Sewell Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago I'd seen quite a lot of the info in that post previously as I follow Ed Neidermeyer on BlueSky, who has spent the last 10 years writing about Musk's various crimes. But the bit at the end about newly-tariffed countries no longer having much need to emulate DMCA laws with regard to reverse engineering might just have some bearing on why Trump is suddenly threatening other countries that enact laws to regulate or tax US Big Tech companies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yannick Willox Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 1 hour ago, eatstoomuchjam said: Someone loves Eeeeelllllooooonnnnnnn. If you stan him enough online, maybe he'll be your friend and give you a billion of his dollars. Keep it up! I really do not have any love for Elmo, but there is no way everything you read on that blog post is true. If you have proof otherwise, except that we both have a profound contempt for Elmo, be my guest. In the EU they would be open to a flood of lawsuits, both by users and control organisms. THIS is a big part of the enshittification, the abundance of misinformation by people on the internet that have not gone completely bonkers like most have, but still fall prey to a lack of objective source and fact checking. Mainly because they have a profound dislike for something/someone, thus the things happening or being reported must be true. eg. The Meidas network, I was a fan, but sorry, they are FAR from objective by now, and way too emotional. It comes across as fake instantly, even if I have sympathy for them. but the OP was on a completely other matter. It had nothing to do with misinformation, but everything with abuse of legal power by the big guys. That is the point I wanted to make. Every time as sane person makes an incorrect statement online, it adds to the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatstoomuchjam Posted 2 hours ago Share Posted 2 hours ago 1 hour ago, Yannick Willox said: I really do not have any love for Elmo, but there is no way everything you read on that blog post is true. If you have proof otherwise, except that we both have a profound contempt for Elmo, be my guest. I'm obviously not going to go and manually look up every single fact in that post and provide a citation for it. That's absurd. You said 8 hours ago, Yannick Willox said: One of the main problems is people reposting bullshit that is easy to prove wrong. So now the burden is on you. Prove that bullshit wrong. It's apparently easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxJ4380 Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 47 minutes ago, Tim Sewell said: But the bit at the end about newly-tariffed countries no longer having much need to emulate DMCA laws with regard to reverse engineering might just have some bearing on why Trump is suddenly threatening other countries that enact laws to regulate or tax US Big Tech companies. trump is going hard on australia at the moment. On friday the new tariffs comes into affect. i grabbed some texts from online that seem relevant. Some of it might be a couple of months old by now. Australia Post will temporarily partially halt sending parcels to the US ahead of the Trump administration’s changes to tariffs on imports. As of Tuesday, businesses will no longer be able to send postal goods to the United States and Puerto Rico until further notice. Those using Business Contract and My Post Business will be most affected, but gifts under $US100 ($A154), letters and documents will not be affected. The move is in response to US President Donald Trump’s changes to customs and import tariff rules that will take effect on Friday. The US government will suspend the de minimis exemption, which currently allows parcels valued $US800 or less to come into the country duty free. Parcels above this value will now require a pre-payment of tariffs prior to the item’s arrival in the US. Australia Post executive general manager of parcel, post and e-commerce services Gary Starr said the company was “disappointed” to have to implement the suspension. However, due to the complex and rapidly evolving situation, a temporary partial suspension has been necessary to allow us to develop and implement a workable solution for our customers,” he said. I suspect aus post is trying to minimize the amount of lost money/ products, as if the US seizes them, good luck getting anything back. The second thing is australia is dead set on limiting under age minors on social networks. We know that social media can be a weapon for bullies, a platform for peer pressure, a driver of anxiety, a vehicle for scammers. And worst of all, a tool for online predators, Australia’s parliament has passed a world-first law banning social media for children under 16, putting tech companies on notice to tighten security before a cut-off date that’s yet to be set. The bill passed the lower house on Wednesday – 102 votes to 13 – before progressing to the Senate. A poll by YouGov conducted this month showed that 77% of Australians support the under-16 ban. The survey was conducted in the second half of this month and sought the views of 1,515 people with a margin of error of 3.2%. The Senate approved the social media ban late on Thursday, the last sitting day of the year, following months of intense public debate and a rushed parliamentary process that saw the bill introduced, debated and passed within a week. Under the new law, tech companies must take “reasonable steps” to prevent under-age users from accessing social media services or face fines of nearly 50 million Australian dollars ($32 million). It’s the world’s toughest response yet to a problem that has seen other countries impose restrictions but not hold companies accountable for breaches of a nationwide ban. The ban is expected to apply to Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and X, but that list could expand. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese praised the new law on Friday, saying it sent a message to parents that “we’ve got your back.” “Platforms now have a social responsibility to ensure the safety of our kids is a priority for them,” he said. Elon Musk, said in its submission to the inquiry that the platform was “not widely used by minors” but expressed concern about the law’s impact on their freedom of expression. Pretty sure he actually meant he's more scared of his company actually being made accountable for something and the loss of a bunch of impressionable kids probably hurts too.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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