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VLC is currently in FDroid, though perhaps there was a time when it had been removed.

This post contains most of what I would want to say about it. http://harmful.cat-v.org/economics/intellectual_property/

This post contains most of what I would want to say about it. http://harmful.cat-v.org/economics/intellectual_property/

Any utopia where you are constrained by the limits of the physical world suddenly looks a lot less peachy. That includes the vast majority of them because any physical construct is…

There's always the possibility that things are different in their country.

> Alas, this was the way to work around the huge mess that is IP laws. Or, and I realize this is a long shot, we could come to the realization that "intellectual property" is an ox…

I'll agree when library ebooks stop being encumbered by DRM which hinder both usability and archival capacity. Copyright getting in the way of knowledge and sharing is not new, and…

The vast majority of staffers don't change when the leading party does in a number of countries.

> Force people to signup through app > Can easily put the same amount of effort to ensure that phone isn't tampered with You put a proprietary app on your phone. You presumably did…

The issues with batteries can be mostly, though not entirely, averted with e-readers, which use html (epub is just a zip with some xml metadata). Now books, easily copied? When's t…

Speak for yourself. I'd like to highlight that synthesizers are very easily available now. As for physical instruments... it hasn't really improved or worsened significantly in the…

> the fact you downloaded an app specifically meant to wipe your phone via an "oh crap" code. Are we now assuming PKI is fundamentally broken or that one were dumb enough to downlo…

Not to rain on your parade but back-alley surgery or abduction is an option. I for one prefer being robbed than diced up. Nowhere in my contract was "dying for my employer" written…

If you're using a screen reader anyway, why not export to text instead of pdf? You're just wasting more storage for no benefit you can perceive. This relies on what should be a rea…

That's a false dichotomy. If you can't afford a cheap phone these days you likely can't afford five books a year anyway. Guess what libraries provide? Free book and computer access…

latex2html and pandoc can both convert to responsive html5, you don't need to learn anything new. For bonus points, simply distribute the latex file so that the users can convert a…

Don't act like English is anything close to having a proper syllabary.

> If you truly value an photo, make a proper print, archival grade tint, archival grade paper. Or you could parity-pad your backups so even 20% corruption is still recoverable and …

> Even an average idiot must now realize, that GM food may be riskier than you think. Yes and no. It may lead to dangerous expressions, but plain chemical testing and analysis prio…

The problem with jammers is that if you don't shield the building where you're using them, you're going to interfere with the outside which is a potential public safety risk (it's …

> That's so disproportionate that you might as well just abolish copyright. Ideally that's what we would do.

gpg2 --armor --output my-file.tar.gz.gpg -e my-file.tar.gz && curl --upload-file ./my-file.tar.gz.gpg https://transfer.sh

Considering the DMCA is harmful and should never have passed? There's an ethical and moral aspect here you're ignoring.

It's MIT licensed by default. The StackOverflow code, that is.