@craiggrannell__dup_538@mastodon.social
2026-03-02 16:30 UTC
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@jtonline@mastodon.me.uk 2026-03-02 16:34
@craiggrannell@mastodon.social I'm not ripping CDs your honour,— I'm training AI.
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@eq@mas.to 2026-03-02 16:49
@craiggrannell@mastodon.social This usage is legal in Sweden due to a tax we pay on all storage media including phones. Sucks if only doing backups of your vacation images 😆
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@lnr@sunny.garden 2026-03-02 17:14
@craiggrannell@mastodon.social It's funny really - I'm surprisingly strict with myself and not pirating stuff, waiting for things to be available on a platform I have access to. And yet even I'm totally up for ripping my own CDs to listen to them on other devices.
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@maxleibman@beige.party 2026-03-02 17:19
@craiggrannell@mastodon.social Is it illegal to rip a CD for your own use? Apple literally advertised iTunes' ability to do this very thing for years.
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@dan@mastodon.durrans.com 2026-03-02 17:38
@craiggrannell@mastodon.social you wouldn’t steal an astronaut’s helmet…
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@derickr@phpc.social 2026-03-02 17:59
@craiggrannell@mastodon.social I tried looking for a source for this, but no luck. Could you help?
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@kitkat_blue@mastodon.social 2026-03-02 18:51
@craiggrannell@mastodon.social They want it to look like a "considered policy determination". But what it really looks like is corruption. Because it is.
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@Johns_priv@mastodon.social 2026-03-02 20:16
@craiggrannell@mastodon.social Excuse me but that's legal in Spain. Not for anything we pay a canon tax on all electronic devices cause it was assumed that they would be used for private copies!!
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@JanPV@mastodon.social 2026-03-03 08:26
@craiggrannell@mastodon.social Of course. The capitalist regime and its purchased parties and politician puppets always protect business, not the citizen. The entire UK has, since Thatcher, been sold to private interests - these days - mostly foreign private interests, who take the money out of the country.
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@gregalotl@c.im 2026-03-04 13:00
@craiggrannell@mastodon.social I have often wondered how politicians deal with tech. They, themselves are largely clueless and they rely on awful or very partial sources. They do use some tech but it's mostly consumer level stuff and anyone with a bit of knowledge there is lauded as a tech expert across the board. They're usually biased to their origin tech, which is invariably proprietary and often have little experience of a) enterprise grade tech b) Open Source & Open Protocols c) Understanding user needs & experiences beyond the commercial silos they bubbled up in. And then there's lobbyists. Politicians are far too credulous with them. There needs to be a register of every representation from commercial interests, with detailed & open minutes. And a hefty jail term for not! Any contract with the government must be open! The 'commercial interest' fig leaf must not be available. It's for the public, it's worth a lot of money and the cost of that is 'everything out in the open - from the outset!