If you can't restore it - it is not a backup. At home, I simply copy stuff to [1+] large external drives. As long as one drive is alive I can get my stuff.
And only hinted at of course, there is the presumption in this that all natural persons are doing this, when it is far from the case. Same thing happens with media levies - why should I pay a levy to "rightsholders" for the media I use to back stuff up on? I shouldn't. period.
I'm sorry - if it is fair use, it requires neither permission nor payment. I am surprised they paid - that seems a little daft to me, under the circumstances.
Even if you were right, you missed the point. Breaking up streaming content into "exclusives" and time boxing is exactly what drives people to alternatives. While I understand that these companies are trying to give people a compelling reason to buy, more often they are giving them a compelling reason to obtain it from source in which no-one gets paid.
Seems to me the FBI argument is the defense shouldn't see the NIT code because they don't know what they will find... I am surprised that this judge has painted himself into a corner with a logical fallacy this simple...
I get speeds far beyond anything you can get in the US, it's uncapped and I get it today. The exceptions are going to be mostly rural outliers where the economics are bad...
I would have thought ANY politician voting on this should reject it on the very grounds that they cannot know what is in it. Unfortunately, the fact that things like this pass shows that the voting process is as suspect as everything else.
Just dropping the funding itself will likely reduce attacks as there will be less effort spent on actions that drive people in that way. It is all money that should be put back in the overall budget to benefit all people in society - ie it shouldn't be earmarked for "terrorism (tm)" at all.
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I have no trouble believing they got nothing of value from it however. That is inevitable whether they got in or not.
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