But you can already talk to bots by just opening the app and using it…

Is it only pirate sites?

Because if we block worldwide pirate websites before terrorists ones that goes to show how powerful the copyright lobby is…

Makes pirated content look more important than terrorist sites.

Probably the beginning of the end for that open source project.

Very interesting and a much appreciated work on that project that suspiciously refuses to act upon those blobs.

That’s not fair to change the system only when businesses require it. I received a fuckin’ letter from a government entity where I live for having downloaded the trash tier movie “Demolition”.

I agree copyright and patents are bad but it’s so infuriating that only the rich and powerful can choose not to respect it.

So I think openAI has to pay because as of now that shitty copyright and patent system is still there and has hurt many individuals around the world.

We should try to change the laws for copyright but after the big businesses pay their due.

They are not releasing anything of value in open source recently.

Sam altman said they were on the wrong side of history about this when deepseek released.

They are not open anymore I want that to be clear. They decided to stop releasing open source because 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵.

So yeah I can have huge fines for downloading copyrighted material where I live, and they get to make money out of that same material without even releasing anything open source? Fuck no.

I would argue it’s a security issue not to have any ad blocking. Many scams online start with popups or fake ads.

So if you get the opportunity to talk to IT that’s what I would mention.

Publisher 360 I guess with some extra expensive cloud subscription.

Well yes, if you can afford to boycott airbnb clearly you could do so.

And AirBnB is all around the world so I’m sure there is plenty of illegal things to rent on Airbnb. They just look the other way.

One single French company and that’s it :(?

I thought we had some great AI researchers in France but it seems they are long gone if all we can muster is one startup?

It fucking sucks and will slow down the transition to electric cars.

We already have that shit in France too. The national companies sell prohibitively expensive cars with some amount of financial help. But if you buy a Chinese car (even with a demonstrably proven carbon footprint) you don’t get any help.

Basically this is about protecting our car industry and shielding from their incapacity to provide a value electric car to the masses. Nothing to do with emissions.

I thought it was obvious you wouldn’t say “hey I just took your benchy model and changed N vertices”. But just “happened” to inadvertently create a benchy lookalike.

Also there is definitely a point where it would be safe to reproduce the benchy design otherwise we could point at anything on earth and say “that’s a heavily modified benchy.”

Or are we all benchy? Am I a benchy with a thousand modified vertices?

So let’s be pragmatic there is nothing preventing me even to start a new design that vaguely ressemble the Benchy design. All it takes is for that “vaguely” to be enough so that you could argue you were not making a benchy redesign but just stumbled on something that could look Like a benchy.

I would actually suggest to make this new benchmark as close as possible to the original design as a middle finger to these idiots.

Any 3D printing lawyer interested in creating a 4D benchy? Also the same benchy but with just enough modifications to be legally safe?

Something I wonder is how would it even be possible for vendors to ignore PayPal is doing something fishy.

You got a guy who’s job is to monitor who is getting their affiliate money. He sees PayPal collecting millions of affiliate money.

The other players in this game (of affiliate link) knew very well that honey was doing something fishy. Why didn’t they contest it?

Because they were doing the same kind of “last click” bullshit. If that was so unfair there would be a trial already. They all followed this stupid rule and the megalag video talks about it.

The fact that Linus Tech Tips knew and we are supposed to believe the rest of the affiliate links mafia didn’t see a thing?

What if there is no law about who gets affiliate money?

Realistically most extensions open many links in the background. Even a simple adblocker will “open links” or URLs in the background to perform updates of lists etc.

The difference here is the malware was installed by the user after accepting a user agreement that probably covers network use…

Also they hijack the affiliation when the users interact with the extension and not with the website where the link for the product is.

I doubt honestly this will be a good angle to attack Honey.

IMO the fact that users are told that the best coupon will be used even though it’s demonstrably not true is a much more provable issue.

Especially since the extension opens a tab for an instant makes me think they didn’t really try to be super super sneaky.

Hmm so even Reuters is in this cabal. This is concerning.

About that is it normal that the other videos are not released?

I feel like he is losing the momentum he had with that video series and the more time he waits the more likely the gag orders or retaliation from PayPal.

What if Megalag can’t release the next videos because a horde of lawyers is already on his back?

Surprisingly I think Honey decided not to be able to sell user data (Ludwig sponsorship’s with honey was pushing this).

Basically they were making so much money on affiliate links they probably thought it wasn’t worth risking to be caught for some privacy reason.

Technically, there is not necessarily a partnership in a situation where an affiliate link was stolen. Any user with the extension would see his affiliation given to PayPal.

Also, I can’t help but think it will be very difficult to account for how much money was “redirected” by Honey. The creator would need data from YouTube that I don’t think is logged for much time. So you wouldn’t know who clicked and when and even after that I thing the vendor of the product would need to be involved also.

Who knows what LegalEagle intends to do, they shouldn’t be too clear on their intent and keep their strategy secret. Maybe they hope for some kind of settlement because I think this is more damaging in term of PR than it will ever be in terms of fines. It’s like the recent case of Apple, they choosed to pay to expedite the process but never admitted guilt?

Again I’m no lawyer let’s trust Legal Eagle and see where it goes. But PayPal will be a strong case for sure.

I don’t think the case you consider as “legal precedent” is as relevant as you think.

But I guess we will see.