You might be right to a point. There’s a lot of bad intentions here on Reddit, but on the Chinese apps some comments are far worse than anything that I’ve seen here by no small margin.

Sorry Google Groups has been neglected for years. The problem is that finding alternatives that are also free is not easy - which seems to be the main theme of the article (although they refer to paid options as proprietary)

Slack and Teams both seem to fit the bill here. But the article sidetracks into lease known options that only a programmer might love.

As is tradition

Creates the problem then warns you about it, thanks Bill you idiot.

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Why would you not want the option?! what aren't you hiding sir?!?! Some of us may want our official non official watermark to exist but not be scene. So that we may enlighten the masses while being unofficially officially involved in it! So we pay extra for the privilege of deception! It's all there in my new book and New York Times best seller, (ever since I sold one copy to my official Twitter page "@the new york times" its official but its underground you probably haven't hear of it. And I use that in quotes to promote my movie somewhere. You wouldn't get it.

You keep finding new ways to tell me about how our our privacy regulations aren’t effective.

The Suck and Cut

The more things change the more they stay the same

It really doesn’t matter , I doubt that Bing has anything of value. It’s been rubbish anytime I’ve used it.

Mighty presumptive of you

Not with what I dream about.

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To be fair he also demonstrated two ways in which those laws could be made to work, it was less the laws themselves and rather issues with defining what harm actually meant not including emotional harm. (and the flaw shown in little lost robot was frankly really dumb)

Is this a study to support having a central government "protect" you from online abuse? Might such government proffered "protection" be a bigger problem than the problem it claims to solve?

They’re in the kernel!

the_donald.... have you been here 5 minutes or what?

Google has become all about the Benjamins.

Been about 3 years, but it can also foster discussions.

Do we only care about what he says because he is very wealthy?

Now pump that hype train Bill.

Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream!

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I think BreachForums and many sites like it, in their infinite wisdom, actually ban access from VPNs and Tor.

That's simply not true about their format. Heck I still have copies of books around, they're not protected in any way. And this would not be part of court opinion but in fact finding.

Could be it was 14 days. Don't remember. I remember it as 30 though. That's kind of besides the point though.

The lending model isn't in question, or it is but its not really the core issue. Them distributing illegal copies though is. That's why no, you cannot just exempt distributing digital copies if the original is held. You've still made an illegal copy that you're now distributing. You have to make the copying itself legal in order to make the distribution legal. And if you make the copying legal, well now nothing is stopping you from selling those copies and thus copyright falls. You'd have to completely redo the entire copyright system from the ground up to focus on the distribution instead for your proposal to work but copyright is about the copying, not the distribution.

And there's just so many things wrong with your examples. You can record a show on tv yes, but you cannot distribute that. Or specifically, you cannot record it either if your purpose is to distribute it. You're only allowed to make such copies for personal use, IA is not making copies for personal use.

What you can and cannot copy for a classroom lesson is controlled by deals the school makes. It never allows for copying entire books. For critique, you're again not allowed to just copy the entire thing. It's not that you can't make exemptions, but IA's copying cannot be made an exemption without copyright as a whole falling. I'm all for that, but it's not going to happen.