Going by the article you linked, game cloning runs into problems, including the EULA and potentially for copying information. Copyright cases also consider whether the potentially infringing text replaces the original in the market, which is another problem for cloning games.

Training models, as a concept, isn’t necessarily IP theft, but in practice has involved quite a bit of IP theft. Anthropic itself has come under fire for pirating books and scraping Reddit after agreeing not to scrape Reddit.

Ah, it’s ok to steal IP to build models, but not to use those models to steal IP. Got it.

I haven’t used Plex in a while, but I presume it would go similarly to my Jellyfin migration this year.

I pulled out a 10 year old laptop from my pile of scrap, installed a light-weight Linux server that can run containers, and I’ve been running LinuxServer.io’s Jellyfin container on it. Updates are pretty easy and I don’t have to worry about cluttering the host box’s packages with dependencies that may or may not conflict with the other things I run in it.

If you have the time to figure out how to run apps in containers, I highly recommend doing so. There’s a lot of documentation for Docker, and Docker Compose files make managing the containers pretty easy.

You’re delving into the unpleasant realm of risk assessment. How likely is the app going to be targeted by a threat actor, and how badly could they use it to damage your data or system?

If it’s a public facing service, I’d immediately check if I have alternative applications I could migrate too. Any hold an outsider gets through the public facing app could be used to pivot further into my network.

If it’s something that doesn’t interact with the network at all, then I wouldn’t worry nearly as much, but might look for alternatives any just because I know this isn’t going to get improved at all. Somewhere in the middle, you need to decide how much risk you can accept.

I just got to an epilogue for 1000xResist this morning. Ummm, I’m not even sure which character is really the main character. Blue is a good candidate. I guess I’m experiencing multiple people’s trauma and then deciding what the future will be like.

All in all, there are certainly worse positions to be in.

If they wait long enough, they might be trading their stake in X for a candy bar.

65% down from the 300 mil that Fidelity put into the acquisition. This article isn’t about the overall value, just one investors valuation of their investment.

There’s some great answers already here, but I want to add a detail fir some context. Like others mentioned, Let’s Encrypt does just the bare minimum of verification. They aren’t really verifying that you are who you say you are, they are verifying you control the website. The reason is due to their goal.

They want as many people as possible using a secure Web protocol, and that requires as many people as possible have a certificate for any websites they run. There is minimal verification of identity, but the benefit of encrypted communications and even that bare minimum id is a huge step up in consumer security from old unprotected protocols.