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Internet Archive (Archive.org) being sued by copyrightists.
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Following arrest of some alleged operators and the transition to more censorship-resistant distribution methods. An eLibrary becoming a physical library.
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Forcing an upgrade to paid plan or deleting files after 6mos.
OpenCycleMap (http://www.opencyclemap.org/) and CyclOSM (https://www.cyclosm.org). Both are free to use and useful regardless of the type of bike one is using.
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Copyright being used to protect the rich & powerful, who are the main beneficiaries of IP legislation.
No account required, no fees. They make money from affiliate/commission links, presumably. Cell phone and ISP plan comparison: whistleout.com Can choose many details about phone and plan & compare. Textbook/regular book price comparison: gettextbooks.com Can search by author, ISBN, etc. Sorted by price, including new and used on many sites. Shows shipping cost. I always use this when buying books.
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Despite them not being physically in the US, not having operations in the US, and not selling the books. Just normal world police BS.
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Debian to automatically load non-free [libre] firmware but inform users it is doing so. IMO a compromise to broaden hardware support.
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Copyright holders mad about online library. (I doubt they like physical libraries either).
Yet, if we had communism - or even used to have communism at one point - here, most people would be able to own their own home. I bet the US statistics include mortgagees as "owners" or the numbers would be even lower. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ownership_rate
It's ridiculous. If I don't have "Autopay" on my cell bill, they charge me an additional $20 a month (nearly doubling it). I think they charge an additional fee if you want a paper bill actually mailed to you, but you are free to print it at your own expense (how kind of them /s). Oh, and now telecoms are thinking of bringing back data limits when they roll out 6G. https://www.lightreading.com/climate-change/could-6g-mark-return-to-usage-based-pricing-/a/d-id/777099? Credit cards also hassling me whenever I login to tell me to sign up for autopay and paperless billing. I know they DGAF about the environment, the motivation for the paperless is to eliminate any actual employees and raise the profit margin. Legally, banks have to send you a paper statement and bill if you request it, and my guess is that if they get enough people to do the "paperless" option they will lobby the government to get rid of this requirement, then they can do whatever they want to customers with no paper trail.
In the developed world (esp. the US), the hammer and sickle, symbols of labor, are not actually used that widely anymore. Industrial monocrop mechanised agriculture and assembly-line manufacturing processes, as well as the use of robotics means most workers are no longer swinging a hammer or sickle as they produce goods, such as food, for the society. tl;dr: As manual labor has changed in the US & developed countries, does this well-recognized Communist symbol need updating?
Like Soviet Union, PRC, DPRK, Viet Nam? From my understanding these weren't/aren't really ruled by the people but by a wealth(ier) elite, they use systems of money, have (limited) private property, etc. Which, imo, is capitalism or (its friendlier variant) socialism (which has some communist features like universal healthcare for example), but is not communism. Isn't the goal of communism supposed to be anarchist communism (no state [government], also no rich/poor divide)? Where nothing is owned, either by the state or by individuals? I didn't think statism is compatible with communism.