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The popularity of games like Shadowdark and DCC suggest that more-or-less traditional dungeons are very much 'still a thing'. They're not everything, but they're still a thing.

I'm fine with this. "We can't succeed without breaking the law" isn't much of an argument.

Do I think the current copyright laws around the world are fine? No, far from it.

But why do they merit an exception to the rules that will make them billions, but the rest of us can be prosecuted in severe and dramatic fashion for much less. Try letting the RIAA know you have a song you've downloaded on your PC that you didn't pay for - tell them it's for "research and training purposes", just like AI uses stuff it didn't pay for - and see what I mean by severe and dramatic.

It should not be one rule for the rich guys to get even richer and the rest of us can eat dirt.

Figure out how to fix the laws in a way that they're fair for everyone, including figuring out a way to compensate the people whose IP you've been stealing.

Until then, deal with the same legal landscape as everyone else. Boo hoo

The very very few things I care to watch any more (and those almost entirely SBS and ABC) I can watch online. The other channels put together would be lucky to show anything I care about a few times a year. If they won't stream it online I just don't bother. If they won't put on any stuff I care to watch, that's their problem. My TV isn't even plugged into an aerial any more, it's only there to maybe use with the old games machines or maybe watch an old DVD

33 arty, wow. Still hitting logistics hard too, by the look.

Just need to get AI on that.

damn

Among other issues that's going to make it harder for them to do other stuff.

goes down with distance by an exponential factor
(1/x^3)

Umm... those two things are not equivalent. b^(-x) would be exponential, x^(-k) is inverse-power for whatever k

Its showing for me

It has been a pretty short trip from "Don't be evil" to "The cutting edge of late stage capitalism"

took me a minute. Still waking up. The Bilbo Frodo age diff is 111-33, though so if this is Frodo at 50, Bilbo is older than 111 at the time of writing

face, meet leopard