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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • I’m not for the US gov or politics getting involved in legal issues, however the music industry must lose this lawsuit no matter what.

    The precedent it will cause many people to be effected that wouldn’t be normally, AND also forces a punishment that isn’t equal to the crime.

    We live in a world that very much requires internet to do anything, this judgement would force people to go offline for potential IP(Intellectual Property) issues. That punishment is exponentially higher than what the crime actually was. It’s life ruining.

    This isn’t the same as “oh you sold modified game hardware to people so you can no longer touch that game system”, this is “you may have stole music, so therefore you are losing your ability to do anything digital”. Even if the accusation is true, considering how much of the world is digital now, and how few ISP options are available in areas due to legal constraints, this is not a fair punishment to give. A fair punishment is a fine and a ban from being allowed to hold that producers IP. It’s a severe overstep to remove someones access to the internet for an IP violation and I fully agree it is not the responsibility of the ISP

    Honestly, this is the digital equivalent of doing a house arrest for someone stealing music from a store. It isn’t right.



  • Yeah, DVD players and Blu-ray players are going the way of the VHS player. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find one that isn’t super locked down by some form of DRM and just works.

    And if you’re trying to find one for computers, forget about it. You spend an arm and a leg trying to find anything that isn’t just your typical DVD only, no Blu-ray or 4K. Blu-ray is a little more pricey, but any type of actual 4K player for computers, you’re spending $$$ unless you’re willing to try to patch it with a custom firmware.





  • the inability to manage my own system would be a solid “yea never mind this isn’t what I wanted” and shipping the device back. it probally wouldn’t be a full refund but, that’s the cost for me making a mistake like that. I’ll be damned if in not going to be able to access my own alarm panel. I would be firmly against any setting not being in a user accessible location regardless if it’s a time thing.

    Hopefully op had the tech enable all settings on the main panel cause that’s such a shitty money grabbing practice. Just lock the ability to change time behind a service code on the main panel. incorrect code = alarm is triggered.