No idea where they live but here in Germany ads for political parties are severely limited except during the months leading up to an election and advertising aimed a children is harshly regulated.

Sidenote: A similar app is https://squoosh.app/

Basically as long as a website doesn’t do shady shit with cookies no cookie banner is required.

That is actually the status quo. If a website only uses cookies that are needed to make the website function, there is no need for a banner or dialogue. These cookie banners are there deliberately to be annoying so you'll agree to more than is necessary.

https://metager.org/ is run by a German non-profit. Since late last year it's pay to use because their advertising partner (Yahoo) cancelled their contract without warning. But it's cheaper than Kagi. Also the non-profit is part of the project that's building the European OpenWebIndex ( https://ows.eu/ ) that's releasing this year.

My not-yet-wife and I are in that situation rn. I'm on the taller side for a German and she's average Asian height, so our size difference is bigger than in the comic. ><

Sharing isn’t the issue. The emulator was profiting from it.

I wrote about sharing but even profiting from it should be legally permissible.

If I copied your house key and sold it, would that be alright?

Of course not. There are laws against that. Laws that are not copyright laws.

but I don’t lie to myself that it’s morally defensible.

Oh, sorry, I thought this was about legality. If we want to talk about the morality of evading copyright we should also about the morality of copyright itself, how it historically came to be and whose interests it was supposed to serve (it wasn't made to support creatives). Actually there is surprisingly little evidence that the introduction of copyright increased the incentives for creatives to publish or made them wealthier (except a select few). I think there is a better case to be made for the morality of sharing creative works unlawfully than for limiting the sharing of those works for a century after their creation.

IANAL, but from a EU-centric perspective on copyright (which is the only one I can reliably talk about) the idea of a proprietary encryption key is bogus. A creative work can be copyrighted if it has sufficient originality (or under some other very specific conditions). Smaller parts of such a work are not copyrighted if they don't meet that criteria on their own. The encryption key (which is very probably randomly generated and definitely not a creative work) thus can't be copyrighted on it's own. At least in the EU, there should be no argument against sharing said key (at least in respect to copyright).

I honestly can't talk about other jurisdictions (maybe someone else here can) but I imagine it should be similar to this in many other countries.

Had fun with Verdance at my local pre-release event. I think I will keep her and maybe try out the others too. Was originally hoping to play my old Data-Doll deck again after Rosetta now but I'm so sure anymore.

I - for one - welcome the solarpunk future where we'd meet up with friends to watch indie self-published movies because that exploitative but productive industry didn't make it for lack of a viable business model.

Nice write-up, but really not helpful since it has nothing at all to do with what is actually proposed in the initiative.

Honestly not sure how I feel about them but the rules seem straightforward enough. We had so many judge calls at the Mistveil Prerelease. I do hope Rosetta will be better.

Oops, wrong side.

Have a Dominia.

I'm not that new anymore but still relatively fresh (joined last year). Really looking forward to the new wizards and the new guardian.