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  • While it's legal to make a copy for personal use only, it's illegal to circumvent any form of DRM for that.

    You are allowed to own a copy of protected media, but you aren't allowed to make a copy.

  • Das "einfache" Moos hat ca. 10000 verschiedene Gene mehr als der Mensch, die Komplexität eines Lebewesens hat so gut wie nichts mit der Anzahl an Genen zu tun. Außerdem ist die prozentuale Veränderung der Gene ziemlich irrelevant für das daraus resultierende Ergebnis.

  • Usually the one doing the cover has to pay the original songwriter. That can be done by splitting the royalties or "buying" the rights to cover upfront, depending on the options the rightholders give you. For Spotify it doesn't matter, they pay exactly the same in theory.

    In praxis Spotify often has special deals with big record labels, so covers technically make them more money since they only have to pay the standard cut to the artist.

  • That doesn't change the fact that arachnophobia is probably the most common type of phobia and even a lot of people without that problem feel weirded out by them.

    And this isn't even a normal picture of a spider, it's something that comes straight out of ones nightmares.

  • Pictures like these warrant a NSFW tag to make them blurry. Spiders alone are pretty questionable and can make some people freak out, but this is nightmare fuel for someone with even minor arachnophobia.

  • the only goal of tiktok is china data collection and propaganda

    Data collection yes, propaganda no.

    Tiktok doesn't exist in China so pro chinese propaganda for their own citizens isn't possible. For everyone else the algorithm will push what you interact with. Looked at the cat video half a second longer? The rest of your home feed will be cat videos.

    Yes it is biasd towards propaganda due to its polarising nature that creates engagement, but it doesn't push a specific type. It can be left or right wing and pro or contra China/USA, depending on your engagement.

    I still wouldn't recommend the app. The sheer amount of time it tries to phone home is scary (but Google play services is even worse in that regard) and the echo chamber it creates as well as the doom scrolling it pushes will slowly destroy your mental wellbeing. But what i cam recommend is fiddling around with the algorithm in a containerised environment.

  • Oh it certainly has, just not in all areas. The effectiveness of masks is proven, but the right therapy for for example my AC joint sprain is still debated frequently. Cybernetic implants like Elons chip will also lead to a massive amount of opinions from experts without a clear answer.

  • Incomprehensible/overcomplicated ToS already get declared as void every now and then by a competent court, so they aren't really enforceable.

    They should be forced to have a simplified part and a jurist part.

    This will never work. Most of the time they are this complicated to cover any potential loopholes from every angle and point of view.

    Offering a simplified version will just lead to some idiot exploiting a loophole that doesn't exist in the juristic version and once that case goes to court we have the issue of what version counts for the average consumer.

    If we preface this by saying only the juristic one is legally binding and you have to read it either way, then the simplified one lost its purpose.

    Who is the simplified version even meant for? Pretty much no one reads ToS, the only ones doing so will have some kind of business relations. Be it the ToS of their Software or their supplier, they will need the juristic version either way.

    Besides all that, most Software ToS are at least comprehensible if you take a few seconds to think about what you read.

  • Ganz im Gegenteil, es ist fast unmöglich Amazon zu boykottieren. Klar kann man nichts dort bestellen, aber deren Hauptgeschäft ist seit langem schon AWS (Amazon Web Services). Amazon hosted damit einen Großteil des kommerziellen Internets.

  • This isn't about server costs or infrastructure, but rather about licensing rights and artist payments.

    Spotify pays 70% of its revenue to artists and despite that most of them are still severely underpaid compared to their listening times. They could pay artists 5-10% more I'd they give up all profit they make, but that's about it. You already pay artists less than 1ct per song, if that's still too much or not is for you to decide.

    Youtube Premium works cause they pay creators even less while showering every non-premium watcher with ads every 5 minutes.

    Netflix has an entirely different business model. They only pay an initial license fee for a finished series. The artists/studio already got paid, the price negotiations is purely between Netflix and a few big publishers. Due to that they can calculate if a series will bring in a profit and only then decide to buy the license for a period of time. Due to that their offer, while it may seem large, is just a tiny fraction compared to Spotify or YouTube.

    Now to Spotifys books. I'm not sure what their exact business model is, but either they buy the license for the books or they allow others to sell their books directly on their platform. Whatever it is, its a huge increase in costs for them. Either Spotify has the big upfront license cost that they try to get back by gaining new customers or premium allows you to "rent" a book which means Spotify still has to pay the creator even if you didn't pay them anything.

    Taking the extra money from the already existing premium subscription won't work. Artists are already underpaid, reducing that even further will lead to them leaving Spotify.

  • Even then it doesn't really change anything. He might be back to 0 debt for a moment, but one bad event (broken phone, medical emergency, car accident...) is all it takes for the debt to pile back up.