Are you suggesting such an app can be purchased outside Google play but not used?

Having an app check a license server isn’t exactly new. Google play is simply a third party license server.

Same. I’ve had several refunds. No request to return. Just full money back.

I don’t think people recognize how often a purchase made to Amazon or some similar seller platform is actually coming straight from China; always with a 2x or more mark up.

I’ve taken to always searching on ali to see if I can get the same thing for 1/10 the price. They don’t try to hide the shipping information like Amazon does. Where as Amazon won’t report anything until it’s in country and passed customs.

The rainbow table would have to include every four word combination. At around half a million words in the English dictionary, that’s not a small number.

As another XKCD comic illustrates, it’s cheaper to use a wrench.

I don’t know what to tell you that could satisfy your internal struggle here. If you have a style worth stealing it will be stolen. Copyright doesn’t protect that.

For what copyright does protect, it is only enforceable if you have the funds to protect it.

The system wasn’t designed for people like you, it was literally designed during the same time in which only the wealthy were able to peruse art. It was created to protected monied interests, not the commoner.

If you expect to make a living on your art, you need to plan to collect earnings up front. Commissioned work is exactly that.

This idea that you’re going to create some initial idea and then coast on it for life does not align with any reality.

Sometimes, if you create something new and interesting, you’ll end up with a following and they will fund your endeavors but there will still be copycats and you either waste your life perusing that or spend your life perusing your art. You cannot do both. Paying someone else to peruse your “rights” doesn’t change this equation, you’d be creating to fund the protection. Enforce it too hard and your fans will turn on you, as the original post here illustrates.

There is no winning move via copyright that leads to the land of riches. That’s the problem. That’s what copyright is bullshit.

It’s not designed to protect us but so long as the monied interests can convince us otherwise, we’ll go along with it like temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Always convinced if we’d play the game too, we could win.

The system is rigged and it’s not in your favor. Whatever appears to favor you is a facade meant of not to keep you playing the game.

All of the scenarios occur today. Every single one of them.

You do see that, right?

Artistry predates copyright law.

I hope the ChatGPT and its siblings bring about the end of copyright. Unfortunately it’s more likely we’ll pervert the idea of personhood yet again and claim these things are people same as was done with corporations.

And why do they make those offers? Perhaps because you’re complaining about your device and the problems are things that Apple users never encounter?

And that doesn’t explain why android users complain in pseudo-anonymous forums about Apple users. Apple users aren’t making memes about how android users are foolish.

If it’s because real life friends and family suggest they get an iPhone, that’s incredibly passive aggressive.

Constantly amused at how hard android users defend their choice and act like it’s iPhone users doing the same.

Always reminds me of the way right wing / Trump supporters behave. They are obsessed with liberals and the Democratic Party in then same way android users are obsessed iPhone users and Apple.

As an iPhone user, I spend no time thinking about android users and I certainly don’t post threads looking for others to validate my purchase.

Yeah. Good thing no one recovers spam anymore. Fixed that problem!

It’s interesting watching idiots like you thinking fascists will respect you for owning guns.

It’s far more likely they’ll murder you and your entire family in your own home for being perceived as a threat to their fascism.

It’s the ones who won’t fight back that survive.

My understanding of this is that the hardware vendor has a pool eSims that work on their devices. The eSIM “transfer” is actually a new eSIM from the carrier’s pool and their simply transfer the emei over to the new eSIM so there shouldn’t be a reason these cannot be transferred between iPhone and Android other than service providers needing to support it.

Any millennial that gives their succeeding generations any shit is a wannabe boomer.

This also applies to Gen-X.

Oh sweet summer child.

Someone smashes up your beemer and you have to fix it or lose all its value. That single accident dings its resale value.

Someone smashes up my shitbox and I pocket the damage estimate.

They go on apps like NextDoor or Facebook communities pages and beg for help.

Dude, homeless is not the preferred nomenclature. Transient, please.

Those of us that left don’t give a shit.

Stop straddling the fence and the problem goes away.

Sounds like you’re on Android but there are still options. I am no subject matter expert but there are many who are and they are just a quick duckduckgo search away. Good luck!

https://liberateyourtech.com/alternatives-to-google-maps-and-other-location-tracking-apps/

Forced? Not at all. Google happily complied.

Stop using Google products, people. There are alternatives for every service they offer. They haven’t invented anything new in over a decade

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