This article makes it sound like Zhang was the victim here. Short story is that he took over a Dutch Tech company, mismanaged it and took its Intellectual property to transfer it to a Chinese company, essentially gutting nexperia. The board of the company and the Dutch Chamber of Commerce intervened. Note that the Dutch government didn’t do this for political reasons, but based on the findings of the Chamber of Commerce, who intervened because of intentional bad management.
If you look purely at what the value is that a Tesla car offers, the value a Chinese e.v.'s offer nowadays, and the share price of Tesla - anyone can see it’s totally illogical. The market is going to correct rather sooner than later.
Exactly. Intellectual property only applies to corporations. As soon as it’s an individual’s, it’s fair game it seems.
Meta even got caught illegally downloading books via torrents and using those as training material for A.I.
You know what would be fair, seeing as that A.I. is trained on the collective knowledge of everyone that has added content to the Internet? All A.I. models trained on public data should be free to use for everyone.
With the motion now adopted, the Dutch government must formally respond and decide whether to implement the request.
And they won’t.
Wilders is a right wing nut job whose popularity is decreasing rapidly. His party was now elected twice into the government and in both cases they blew up the coalition, causing new elections.
The sentiment regarding his party is now that they are unable to govern and just cause chaos. This is becoming clear even among his followers.
Before the elections they promise the impossible. When they are in the opposition it’s easy to maintain that the ruling parties are messing stuff up, but now that they were actually part of the government they have shown twice now that they are unable to deliver any of their fantasy solutions and that they can’t govern.
And nothing of value was lost. In fact, it might shield more European users from FUD, misinformation and propaganda.
If artists would actually get paid fairly by Spotify that would be a good model.
Until about 100 years ago music artists would get paid for playing live only. Then music reproduction became possible, and lo and behold, companies started making a profit off of popular musicians by reproducing their music and taking a share, just because they could afford the technology.
Then, reproduction came into the hands of regular people, and you could reproduce music at home, bypassing the companies that profit off of the musicians. So copyright laws were drafted to protect mostly the companies making a profit off of musicians.
Now we’re going back to the situation of 100 years ago: musicians need to play live to get paid. But reproduction does still make them famous without them having to travel. So that’s a plus.
And you can argue Spotify has to.pay for infrastructure and app development, but that technology is in the hands of individuals as well nowadays. So what do they actually offer, on top of the work of creative people making music? Not much. Yet they become more expensive every year. And the only people getting richer are their shareholders.
Nationalists. Just of another nation.
Of course they want to politicize this. And the EU is being far too careful here, these amounts are only 1.5% of the maximum penalty. They got off easy
Of course it is. I hope that’s not true. Where did you read this?
What if everyone would transfer their PayPal credit to a regular bank account on the same day? Would that bring Paypal value down?
Pretty satisfied with kmail/infomaniak
I deleted my Disney plus and Amazon prime accounts last week and it felt so damn good.
I’ve been to Russia (st. Petersburg) where entering a church would cost $10, but for Russians a couple of rubles.
It makes sense from the perspective that locals should be able to afford seeing their own art and architecture. If foreigners can afford it and are willing to pay the asked amount, I sort of understand.