That’s always problem for any type of media. Including the tape which keep changing generations and only few recent are supported for reading. I still have blue ray reader / writer though

There is: mdiscs. Allegedly 1000 years durability even in Blu-ray format. Should be good enough for most important things. The best tapes AFAIK 30- 100 years

Hmm, it’s strange grey area. Sometimes piracy is the only way to make the book not disappear. There are niche, low circulation books and magazines which without piracy would disappear and became almost unavailable.

Sometimes the book is no longer in the print because of many reasons:

1. Author changed her / his mind and no longer wishes to publish it, at least in the original edition / version.
2. Copyrights are being taken over and the final copyright owner ceases to republish it even when paid.
3. Copyrights owner doesn’t know that his the owner of some books and it leads to the legal limbo.
4. Low circulated books & magazines don’t survive until the copyrights expire - owners of the books die and their next heirs believe the books / magazines are just garbage and burn it or throw it away.

Ethics & piracy is pretty strange combination and there is no easy answer for it

Preferences are debatable and some people actually like that crap you don’t. F.e. I never understood American hype on “superhero” movies. I’d sooner watch American wresting which may be more plausible than any modern superhero movie

That’s shitty times thar you have to use tools for pirating like torrent, Usenet to share big files . For smaller ones even email providers have bigger limits at least 15 megabytes

Yes, different generation. I didn’t write OLD or ELDERLY. Yes, we grow older - accept it or not :-)

The user base has changed. Before it used to be used by young people willing to share their parts of lives, exchanging f.e. studying material Now it is used by mostly older people (over 30) having family not willing that much to share anything from their lives except from talking to their relatives over the messanger.

So who creates the information today? I guess bots and sometimes some facebook groups but I noticed that facebook shares your group posts to absolutely not related people to that group.

Including your mum and sister, the posts related on smoking weed and going to techno parties.

Young people (Gen-Z) don’t use facebook pretty much at all. Sometimes maybe messanger because of their family

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The same you could say with “conversative” term meaning. In the original meaning it was “not willing changes” not “far right radical” whatever it means ( right now it’s considered to have conservative people in that group by left wing people )

It’s widely quoted quote even by Steve Jobs. You’re reacting like: famous austrian painter liked animals and forbid animal cruelty. So it means like you’re like him

I only want to know how did you bump on this off topic

It’s not my quote

https://creativityclasses.com/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/

Yeah, being not paranoid is hard in XXI century.

TBH the same scenario has been mentioned in the “ex machina” movie from 2014 when colleb has been asking how the humanoid robots work. The deep blue was AI of search engine taking data from listening to the phone calls

Most of the non tech people reaction

Good artists copy, great artists steal. If I think even Steve Jobs mentioned having in mind their visit in Xerox Parc research lab

Lol, strawmanning because running of your shitty arguments? Yes, indeed eot

Growing grass maybe. Normal grain has much higher requirements. It’s clear you have no idea about agriculture. Cows can eat plants which human would die after. They’re evolutionary specialized in this. Humans are not cows, maybe it’s hard to accept :-|

Can’t you understand the feed for the animals is the grain which doesn’t meet human consumption criteria? Certain amount of grain comes with the defects and is a by product of the normal grain growing process. Also the quality of the soil doesn’t allow to grow grain for human consumption because of its bad quality. Do you know that there are various levels of soil quality? The feed for animals is grown on the worst soils

Still you even touched any single argument I proved in your response. That’s the dead end of this conversation. Going vegan reducing fertilizers usage? The simple logic will tell you that it will increase the demand on plants ( going vegan, we cannot eat the feed of animals because thats very poor quality of plants, even harmful to people). So we’ll need more fertilizers on top what we already use. That’s a simple economics. We can’t feed the current 8 billion population without using the industrial way of agriculture and farming. Even with going vegan. Every economist will tell you this. That’s pure fantasy world

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/banking-fintech/banned-substances_study-finds-pesticide-residues-in-93-of-organic-swiss-farms/44878988

Very bio organic crops.

Pesticides and fertilizers without which modern agriculture cannot work (we wouldn’t be able to feed the current population) poisons whole ecosystems, people (around 200 000 people yearly https://swiss-food.ch/en/articles/jährlich-über-200000-tote-wegen-pestizid-vergiftungen )

Is it more “human”. I met people who suffer diseases exactly because of this - no compensation at all, it’s very hard to prove by the level required in court rooms

I won’t even start mentioning how many small mammals, rodents and birds and bees get killed because of modern agriculture.

Do you still feel yourself morally superior?