Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

Post by throwanem » Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 8:49 AM UTC

bawolff wrote: post #334

skeaker wrote: post #198

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To be fair, the theory with the whole coin thing is solid, and I'd say it should count as something to be proud of even if in reality it gets tainted by speculative investments.

Yeah. I personally think the original bitcoin whitepaper is a work of genius. Balancing the soft game theory incentives with hard cryptography garuntees is really cool. I'd love to see more systems exploring this combination approach. There is a saying about not being able to solve a social problem with technology. Bitcoin is the blueprint on how to do that. Its everything that came after that point that is the probl…

Post by mdp2021 » Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 9:00 AM UTC

dulpo wrote: post #244

computerdork wrote: post #202

Know am going to be downvoted into oblivion, but as a composer, can see it from the side of creators. Yeah, making their products free is starving these industries. For instance, in music, there is already very little money in music (think about how many musicians you personally know who can make a living off of music, besides being a music teacher). And, the music industry is still not even the same size as it was i…

I agree with you. There's a huge sense of entitlement from people who pirate, and the most absurd set of excuses. I bet most of them would shoplift if it was consequence free. And then complain that shops were going out of business.

Post by abenga » Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 9:26 AM UTC

ijk wrote: post #271

mightysashiman wrote: post #187

remember guys, it's not pirating, it's gathering date from AI model training purposes. Perfectly legal.

I know you're joking, but what the AI training lawsuits have said so far is that training and digitizing used books that you bought is fair use, but piracy isn't.

Post by lifthrasiir » Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 9:38 AM UTC

ranger_danger wrote: post #413

ofou wrote: post #61

Shadow libraries maintainers deserve a Nobel prize for their contributions to humanity. Satoshi would be proud.

The name Satoshi Nakamoto literally translates to "central intelligence."

Post by nowahe » Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 9:43 AM UTC

fransje26 wrote: post #456

msp26 wrote: post #361

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The french comic pirate scene has an interesting rule where they keep a ~6 month time lag on what they release. The scene is small enough that the rule generally works. It's a really good trade-off. I would never have gotten into these comics without piracy but now if something catches my eye, I don't mind buying on release (and stripping the DRM for personal use). Most of my downloading is closer to collecting/hoard…

Are there any links you could share for.. ..ehm.. ..research purposes?