Oof. They didn't have a very clear path to profit before this.
designatedhacker
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Belgium has waffles? C'mon.
Three midday photos of the major city and there are maybe 10 cars or buses visible between them.
Ok now we know why their alignment team quit.
Karma is a bitch.
‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
The fingerprinting I'm talking about gets encoded in the screen recording too. Subtle pixel changes here or there over the entire length of the video. It'll be lossy when it's transcoded, but over the whole video it's there enough times it won't matter. Even scaling to lower quality won't fix it and then it'll also be lower quality.
It'll be like DRM, there will be people trying to remove it like anything else. They'll break one thing and another will come along. There would still be a black market, but most people can get an unrestricted copy in exchange for money so there's one less reason to pirate.
Unless you're actually pointing a camera at the screen, then OK, you do you.
‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
They could offer a way to download a copy and steganographically tag it to hell with your id so that they know if you distribute it. You can "loan it out" by letting friends stream off your Plex or whatever. If you start selling that streaming service or it shows up in torrents, it has your ID on it.
Boom, you own it forever and you're incentivized not to over share.
Or you know sell DRM free versions and let people do whatever, but that probably has a snowballs chance in hell.
Not a ton more detail, but it sounds like a kid has a visible gun that some students reported seeing. Then they tried to enter the school, but the school had a video doorbell/door buzzer type setup. There were five or so shots in quick succession that must've included officers.
Have to wait on more info, but it sounds like at worst they failed to deescalate. At best they showed up and the kid started shooting and they returned fire.
No innocent kids died, so that's a win in my book.
I got curious. It's at least partially the government regulation thing. They've been working on standards that get inforced soon around data privacy and updates to software. So they can roll their own Chinese version of the software with in-country servers, privacy compliance, surveillance compliance, etc. or pay Baidu/Tencent.
Preparing for more frequent and powerful hurricanes.