Scaled

Article is completely pay walled; please consider deleting and reposting with a readable source.

I'm disappointed in how many pro-piracy comments are in this thread. Free speech does not mean you have the right to steal someone else's labor unencumbered. When actual free speech is blocked, then I'll be among the people rallying -- but blocking a piracy site is blocking cybercrime not legal free speech.

Keep in mind that some of the organizations are presumably patching ancient versions of PHP like 5.6. I am sure this is a process which takes considerable time, especially as upstream PHP has washed their hands of such old versions and the downstreams are effectively on their own.

(It is often much cheaper for an enterprise to just get a long term support contract than to properly upgrade to a modern PHP stack.)

Worth pointing out this is not open source, if that is an important consideration when you're comparing the two (it is to me).

Both these shows have a first couple of seasons of slog. Mr Robot gets a bit better, but it's not worth it. The Office (US) was worth it for me -- eventually they settle into a groove of silly hijinks punctuated by occasional emotional connection and it just works. Mr Robot though suffers from a writers room that think telling a story in an over-engineered way makes it more engaging, and it just mires in that conceit for far too long. It's a movie, maybe a miniseries worth of content they tried to stretch out to four seasons. It has its moments, but they are not worth the trip IMO.

Thanks for the info, it encourages me to give it a try myself!

Privacy departments definitely, but a lot of state AGs have been lobbying for anti-privacy legislation lately. They are the same ones asking app stores to collect PII for ASAA/KOSA/SCREEN and its ilk. They'd probably applaud this invasion of privacy, unfortunately.

Binaries are slightly less contentious, but still problematic for MMOs and other titles where they're just not designed to run on consumer gear, might have credentials baked in or might reveal trade secrets to competitors.

Fundamentally, entertainment and technology both are time limited experiences and can't reasonably be expected to last forever. Usually games get shut off when the playerbase has already moved on -- even if the binaries are available, you'd likely be playing in a ghost town.

This is a fair observation, but storefronts are subject to similar long-term concerns. I have lost plenty of Wii games when that store shut down.

Basically by eliminating IP rights, what you're suggesting is to make games not commercially viable. Do you expect content creators to work for free?

What will happen is the money is invested into other industries and we'll see another video game crash like in the 80's.

Yeah, the idea of game companies (especially MMO or live service ones) being mandated to release server binaries or code is completely unworkable. Companies are not going to want to give away their main proprietary advantage that they've invested into. Games are already a high-risk investment and this would make it even higher risk because the little competitive moat between studios would be eliminated. The industry has been hit hard by layoffs and making gaming even less desirable for investment will further accelerate that. Any failed game (which is most games, because gaming is a hits driven industry) would be saddled with even more liability. Not to mention most commercial middleware is under NDA, so having their source become public would likely destroy those companies, too.

I am not opposed to some mandatory disclosures at the time of sale - like "this multiplayer game requires centralized servers", etc. But straight up requiring server binaries is not going to be viable for a whole swath of online-only game studios like MMO/live service/subscription games etc.

How do you feel it compares to DeepSeek 0731 if you have tried that? (Also runs well on 2x spark)

This is an outrageous privacy invasion and if it's not illegal already, it should be.

Some of the regulation they have previously supported may impact open weight models. Example: are Chinese companies likely to comply with the testing and reporting requirements? And even if they are, the hundreds of remixers are almost certainly not.

Caveat being such regulation may not apply depending on... size of model? Income of originating company? Income of remix creator? It's in flux, but they have an incentive to deter potential future competitors.

IP lawyers tend to be at the more expensive end, typical billing rate in US of $500/hr last I looked. But yes, being able to do a letter quickly is probable.