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Sure, it's still not good. But that can't explain why people are more obese now than a couple of decades ago, since bike infrastructure was even worse then.

1. The SCOTUS ruled that VHS could legally be used to time-shift TV broadcasts, ie record a program in order to personally watch later. If you have permission to watch a TV program, then watching it at a different time has no economic impact and is fair use. Making a copy of someone else's DVD is still illegal. So is giving your VHS tape to someone else. They are not fair use.

2. It is illegal to download copyright protected works. That applies to the person who receives the download, even if lawsuits tend to target those who share the file.

3. It's true the review itself doesn't violate copyright, but my actions prior to the review (copying someone else's DVD) did. It's no different than sneaking into a movie theater in order to write the review. Focusing on the review misses the point

4. Any copyright protected work you gather from the Internet has a limited license. That license generally allows private non-commercial use, so most people are not in trouble.

There was actually a lawsuit by Facebook against a company that was using a web scraper to gather data about Facebook users to build advertising trackers. The judge noted that if the web scraper was downloading user photographs and text posts then it was very likely infringing IP (but not Facebook's IP, because the rights still belonged to the users).

Parent comment was literally referring to fair use.

Copyright can be violated even if your output does not contain a copy.

For example, if I burn a copy of your Disney DVD, watch it, and then write a review, then I've violated copyright. The review doesn't violate copyright, but the DVD I burned does. Even if I throw away my DVD after publishing my review.

All the major AIs were trained with images that were downloaded from the web. When you download something from the web, you do not have an unlimited license to do what you want with your download. You may have a right to view it, but not use it for commercial purposes such as AI training. And if you use that image for AI training without permission, then you've violated copyright. Even if you delete the image after you're done training your AI.

"Fair use" has a specific meaning in copyright law. If something replaces the need for something else in the market, it's almost certainly not fair use. Generative AI replaced the need to hire an original artist.

That doesn't really explain why obesity has increased. If anything, it is often easier to get by without a car today than 20 years ago. For example, my own city is full of bike paths that did not exist then.

The system may be failing, but "infinite growth" is the natural result of inflation which is intentionally targeted to a positive number.

If you think your salary should keep up with inflation, then you too need infinite growth.

You don't need to know anything about American units. But rest assured that those who do use them still haven't found a good reason to switch to French units.

A scale that typically goes from -20 to 40 is less practical than a scale that typically goes from 0 to 100.

Humidity is irrelevant. Celsius is useful only when measuring the liquid phase of water.

Venezuela has been selling oil in euro and yuan since 2018.

Celsius is only practical if you measure the temperature of water more often than the temperature of air.

But most people never measure the temperature of water, and frequently measure the temperature of air. For them, Celsius offers no advantage.

The American pint is 473 mL.

The Imperial pint used to be that much too, hence the old saying "A pint is a pound the world around". Then the Imperial pint was increased by 25%, but Americans kept the old amount.