partial_accumen@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•iFixit wants to fix the soldering ironEnglish
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7 days agoI always thought the “fix” to a traditional soldiering iron was a hot air pencil.
I always thought the “fix” to a traditional soldiering iron was a hot air pencil.
I remember when I was growing up, tech industry has so many people that were admirable
Perhaps you were too young to understand who these people were:
Tom was a good guy, but possibly because he took his fortune and left tech. There were very few admirable leaders.
I like the end result that ISPs are pushing back on this, but don’t mistake this for altruism on their part.
Their businesses make money selling internet service. Were they to support cutting off those accused of piracy, they would be losing paying customers. Further, the business processes and support needed for this to function would be massively expensive and complicated. They’d have to hired teams of people and write whole new software applications for maintaining databases of banned users, customer service staff to address and resolve disputes, and so much more.
Lastly, as soon as all of that process would be in place to ban users for piracy accusations, then the next requests would come in for ban criteria in a classic slippery slope:
All the machinery would be in place once the very first ban is approved.