Only the first literary version, not the 1961 Disney film version (they licensed the rights). So you have to be very careful with what you use. The first book with Tigger included only hit the public domain this year for instance.

I can barely get them to provide basically adequate service that doesn’t meet the FCC definition of broadband. They won’t care, lol.

It’s not the first major video work to enter the public domain. Many have entered it before now due to some eccentricities of copyright law.

The 1968 film Night of the Living Dead, for example, entered the public domain immediately upon release because they forgot to include a copyright notice in the film which was a requirement at the time.

The only reason this one is so significant is because it’s Disney’s property.

It doesn’t have a concept of anything really. It just scans against a database of content that certain people have access to populate. Mostly it’s large media companies but also somehow a bunch of very tiny rights management companies that people can sign up for to protect their content or commit fraud by claiming remixes and other people’s works as their own.

It was doing it in the US as well to at least one creator I know of.

No they’d rather people not have to upload copies of their photo ID to porn sites or participate in a system where such preferences will be easily stored in a government database. It opens the door for privacy violation, extortion, public humiliation, etc for engaging in legal but socially stigmatized behavior in the privacy of their own homes.

I’m in a neighboring state and it’s about 50/50 that my ISP gives me an IP address that geolocates to NC. So right now I’m blocked from the site. I don’t go there often but it’s lame.

Potentially. The government would have to actually prove the supposed gifts were actually payment in exchange for some sort of consideration or work. Legitimate gifts are subject to exemptions and generally taxed on the gift giver’s side as well.

Each individual can give out somewhere around $17k per recipient per year tax free and then beyond that a total of currently around $12M in total gifts over that limit tax free in a lifetime.

I agree it doesn’t pass the smell test generally but nowadays you essentially need direct unequivocal proof of it being a bribe.

They’ll eventually just push them into Egypt. It doesn’t matter that Egypt doesn’t want them. It matters more that Egypt probably won’t start shooting over it. And if they do they’ll be labelled anti-semites anyway and Israel will take the Sinai or something.

Probably Hughesnet or Viasat.

Yep. The failed dual reactor project in SC that also used the AP1000s was a gigantic clusterfuck. Most of the major contractors had essentially no experience on projects of the scale and it resulted in massive cost overruns, delays, and a compounding web of fraud and lies to shareholders and regulators that wound up in utility executives in prison and the eventual sale of the entire utility SCANA to Dominion Energy.

The trick about deradicalizing people is that you need to actually listen to their concerns and allow them a peaceful way to politically and economically achieve a life of dignity. The word Netanyahu likely wants to say instead is eradicated.

They’re going to have to get the emulation working better for x86/x64 software. And they’re going to have to get the driver situation sorted – which likely means requiring ARM drivers alongside x86/x64 drivers in order to meet certification for having a Windows sticker or WHQL certification to gradually build up the list of supported hardware.

That’s what Israel is doing, has been doing, and would continue to do whether the hostages are returned or not.

He’s going to say that Engoron dismissed their testimony by implying they were paid off to commit perjury on the stand with no evidence. He’s going to say that subjective opinions cannot be lies.

None of that is appealable. These are findings of fact. Usually a jury would be finding those things, including deciding on the credibility of witnesses. Appeals are for findings of law or abuse of discretion.

FWIW from the outside this is a bit more muddled than usual because his attorneys were too incompetent to request a jury trial. But that’s their problem and I doubt an appeals court is going to have trouble separating the two roles the judge has, as the finder of fact and of law.

Plus some insanely low pro rata payment for play store purchases in the last 7 years. So probably $2.35.

So averaged out, this settlement would be about 5-6 days of revenue.

On the consumer side another article I read said that the settlement should provide $2 each, and then a pro rata payment based on the amount of app store purchases between 2016 and the settlement date.

The websites in question getting crawled and indexed are generally open and available for anyone to browse. There are parts of the web that are gated off and require authentication and authorization to access. Imagine now that Google found a way to authenticate as you with your bank’s website and index your online banking portal. (It’s not a perfect analogy to what’s happening with Beeper, but I’m just using the one you laid out.)

In a similar way, iMessage as a service requires authentication and authorization to use. It is not open for anyone to use. Beeper is doing something to spoof or otherwise fool Apple into giving the client access. This is the part that’s illegal. And potentially not just “file a lawsuit” illegal but criminally so.

It doesn’t really matter why Apple doesn’t want Beeper or anyone else to use it. The fact that they simply don’t is all that matters.

They have reverse engineered the iMessage API

Yes, this part is legal and fine.

and are using that to connect to the iMessage servers.

This is not allowed because Apple doesn’t want to allow it. They own the infrastructure serving the API, they get to determine who is authorized to use it. They can block whoever they want. And technically speaking, using it in an unauthorized manner could even rise to the level of a criminal violation of the CFAA.

It is literally impossible to do as you suggest (use entirely their own resources) because iMessage is centralized and cannot federate with any other server, even if one did exist.

Partially correct. It is not impossible to do as I suggested, because I never suggested that they should have interoperability with iMessage.