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📈 Piracy is rising fast—and it's not just nostalgia.

🔹 15+ billion piracy site visits in 2023
🔹 Software piracy remains ~37%
🔹 Music piracy jumped 13% in a year
🔹 Streaming piracy up 36% since 2020

Why the increase?

Subscription fatigue

Rising costs across SaaS and entertainment

Fragmented content (too many platforms)

DRM is punishing legit users

Loss of ownership in digital goods

People aren’t just stealing—they’re pushing back.

When paid options are worse than pirated ones, the system is broken. Time to rethink value, access, and trust.

I'm noticing a rise in software, media, and game piracy again. Why?

Because people are fed up.

SaaS fatigue. Subscription overload. Constant price hikes with minimal improvements. Products we never truly "own." DRM that breaks more than it protects.

It’s no longer just about "getting it free"—for many, it’s a protest. When Photoshop is $30/month and requires internet to launch, and movies are split across 6+ overpriced services, people will rebel.

We’ve modernized the tools, but repeated the mistake:
Make access too expensive or too frustrating, and piracy becomes a more ethical experience.

People don’t want to be free. They want fairness.

#FOSS#SaaS#Piracy

“We need to fundamentally challenge what this industry & these technologies have been built on over the past several decades.”

At the event "Sustainable AI: Narratives and Impacts," @parismarx & @pschuetze explored whether #AI lives up to its promises. We spoke with Marx on Silicon Valley’s vision, AI’s unsustainable foundations & grassroots hope.

📖 Full interview: 🔗 weizenbaum-institut.de/news/de

#SustainableAI #TechEthics #ClimateJustice #DigitalFutures #wisskomm #climatechange @Rainer_Rehak

Weizenbaum InstitutAI & Sustainability: Science Fiction vs. Climate ChangeIn the debate about using AI for public good and combating climate change, tech-critic Paris Marx wants us to fundamentally challenge the ideologies the technology has been built on.
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@cliffwade
Totally agree beause the human connection builds real trust, especially in life support. At squads.com, we see AI as a tool to assist, not to replace people. Maybe it’s time more companies asked where AI adds value, not just if it can.

Where do youu think AI helps?
#TechEthics #AIUse

🧬 The Future Of Discover: What AlphaEvolve Tells Us About the Future of Human Knowledge
buzzsprout.com/2405788/episode
helioxpodcast.substack.com/pub

The kind of breakthrough that makes you wonder what else we've been missing, what other solutions have been hiding in plain sight, waiting for the right kind of intelligence to find them.

#AlphaEvolve #DeepMind #Google#AI #AlphaEvolve #DeepMind #MachineLearning #OpenScience #TechEthics #AlgorithmicDiscovery #ComputerScience #Innovation #TechCriticism

Carole Cadwalladr's TED Talk on the digital coup is a must-watch! But let's talk about the elephant in the room: her use of Bluesky and Substack. While her message is powerful, her choice of platforms sends a mixed signal. We need to support open-source alternatives like Ghost and Mastodon to truly resist the digital coup.

We came upon this nice blog of @_elena

#DigitalResistance #OpenSource #TechEthics"

news.elenarossini.com/this-is-

Elena Rossini · This is what resistance to the digital coup looks like
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