If the author has passed/sold the rights to a distributor then is reproducing it via an alternative method a detriment to the author?

They are are the ones agreeing to reproduction. If the author is the sole owner they reserve the right to recreate and distribute themselves. Modern day media has many owners of the process…who all seek rent from you to listen/watch. Who would you pay?

Have you seen Heretic? In some of the scenes Hugh Grants character explores the idea of originality and uses music to do that. If an song is inspired by another song does that mean you have to pay towards the original song?

You could spend forever rationalising who deserves payment. That’s why we entrusted distributors to put a product in front of us based on value of that product.

That’s a really good point, you are not stealing the core product, its a reproduction, and one that you are invited to rent, rather than own. Interpretation is key.

By the same thinking we reproduce and consume other things - words, memes, recipes and don’t consider that stealing.

My stance on the ethics of piracy is - the procurement of something is based on what is a fair value. If that commodity is available via several routes I will always play fair. If the provider tries to extort that commodity past fair then I will look to another provider - If you had a toll road that saved you 5 mins and charged $1 fair, if they then start to charge £25 - I will revert to the back roads, is that considered immoral?

I used to be mac in the 90s onwards so problem solving aint too bad. Moved to linux last year. I am done with ecosystem that are designed to be used against me.

Pixel + GrapheneOS is what I was eyeing up, i was just unsure how cosy graphene is with google, I don’t want to have to use google store.

I will have already been changing habits, its getting relegated to a true phone…hopefully with some stronger security VPN controls. If the services around me want to make it hard I will go back to the dark ages. I no longer use social media and everything else can be done on a browser/laptop where I have a higher level of control of my privacy.

Ok so looks like move of device for me. Apple iphone is my last bastion of big tech and I held off as I didn’t want to swap hardware. I’m not super clued on my options but I have been looking at sailfish or graphine.

I won’t be buying a brand new device I’ll purchase a used one second hand. I’m not fussy with which hardware. I am happy to use the browser, i need an average camera, and i like a map /music in the car

I do like Linux but don’t want an ongoing subscription for sailfish. What option or combination is good?

Unfortunately appeasement upwards has been taken advantage of over and over.

It’s logical to take a stance of ok what can we do to head off the bigger problem. But the truth is, over authoritative governments and tech businesses will overstep that rational offering. So appeasement needs to stop, and recognising this as the line is already occurring.

I am not gonna wish harm on the guy, but I really don’t have a lot of sympathy for a techbro simp.

I’ll be staying for good. I like it. The users are friendly, welcoming and knowledgable, it’s so nice to be part of a community like this. Plus it’s good to get some old school tech skills back and err against convenience when it comes with the cost of mainstream surveillance.

Is it not easier to ask the regional businesses if they have website/rss/newsletters? And point out meta are gonna be forcing you to compromise your privacy. Places will soon look at when their userbases shrink.

Oh that’s upsetting

Yup I’m dell

Thanks i will take a look. I like the toy story themes.

Okies am I in the right place? and i really appreciate the help by the way to all posters.

I thought i completely removed windows when i did the install. I was mac in a previous life. I picked up a old pc that had a fresh install of windows and i thought i just installed linux straight over it…when it asked if i wanted to install over the full drive.

I will try and find out…

That’s what i thought, it is good excuse to explore. I am just a bit frustrated as a new user to be bumping into roadblocks so early in my linux journey

Not altered anything just saw the pop up for update now…which i did and all looked to be fine, aside from the no networking.

I tried the install extras option and that’s when i got the 580 errors. I might be wrong that they are the problem.

No i only have ubuntu on the device

Above is true. You did things the right way and it is still not enough.

Be jolly!

I’m European. Aldi was my fav anyway. However the range you get is very limited. That’s assuming you have a Aldi close by. It gets frustrating. I bake sometimes you just don’t get the ingredients you need there.

I’m not arguing. Colesworth are prats. They have conditioned people to put up with their crap, and most just accept it.

It’s hard to get a full shop from though. And IGA is nice but somewhat expensive, and a bit hit and miss of quality/stock in store. New Aldis have facial cams.

It’s not really like you have much choice given there is a duopoly of supermarkets.