@vnpower Yes, there are many countries that have sale taxes - as many can't help but commit theft primarily against the poor via multiple taxation (with the rich mostly being able to avoid multiple taxation).
@prettygood@matty There are no "dumb phones" anymore for networks with GSM shut down - LTE flip phones are Android, except you're not allowed to install anything.
You can install SIP software onto any computer - that can even be a laptop.
It has a concept of domains and records for that domain.
DNS is basically a shared /etc/hosts file, although there are different record types.
There can be an single A record for IPv4, or multiple on a FQDN; dig A «www.domain.com» or even a not fully qualified domain (without a subdomin); dig A «domain.com»
There is also AAAA records for IPv6 addresses; dig AAAA «www.domain.com»
There's also TXT records; dig TXT «www.domain.com»
and MX records for mail; dig MX «www.domain.com»
CNAME records for mapping domains to other domains; dig CNAME «www.domain.com»
and there's also sometimes CAA records; dig CAA «www.domain.com»
@Dudebro@snacks@jeffcliff Imaginary property is a psyop to confuse people between copyright laws, patent laws, trademark laws, trade secret laws that is very successful.
The GNU article explains it quite well.
Corporations still cannot own general ideas on a creative topic (although there have been many general idea patents granted on basic mathematical ideas) - but they do gladly copy a work from the public domain, sanitize it and then ensure it never returns to the public domain.
One of the reason why people don't bother to produce works of a general idea is that it's very hard to get people to even realize a work exists even with the internet - as people just keep going for the corpo slop.
@Dudebro@snacks@jeffcliff Imaginary property does not exist - using that term gives even more credibility to a confusion.
Copyright laws can only hand public rights to private interests - it can't every go back according to the USA congress.
Yes, the copyright term length is ridiculous - music is not a special case - the ludicrously long term length apply to almost all works.
Many patents have been granted, with restrictions very much like a patent saying that only Rhianna could sing in a flat major - but at least those expire after 20 years (too bad patent offices just proceed to grant another invalid patent).
@snacks@jeffcliff Fair use is very weak and is more of a defense - at most fair use allows copying a sentence or two verbatim for quoting.
Plagiarism is defined as rewriting all of the ideas in your own words without copying any of the original text and claiming that you wrote that everything was your ideas.
Plagiarism done correctly is not copyright infringement and therefore is not illegal.
@jeffcliff@snacks Human learning is quite clearly copyright infringement, but human learning is excepted, as the copyright brain damage cannot be taken that far.
@jeffcliff Most people have personal experience with so called "autocorrect" deciding to edit a correct word with a wrong one - so they aren't going to assume that it must be correct.
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