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[3191.90 --> 3192.34] Whoa.
[3192.98 --> 3198.32] If you were wondering if the mining craze has reached the plateau and is coming down,
[3198.46 --> 3204.24] Taiwanese graphics card makers to see shipments plunge 40% in April.
[3204.86 --> 3207.54] So this includes Gigabyte, MSI, and Tool.
[3209.18 --> 3213.68] Many clients have suspended taking shipments in response to the drastic slowdown
[3213.68 --> 3215.94] in demand for cryptocurrency mining machines.
[3216.52 --> 3220.72] Many mining farm operators are apparently awaiting the rollout of Ethereum mining machines
[3220.72 --> 3223.68] by China's Bitmain in the third quarter of 2018.
[3224.62 --> 3225.86] Dun, dun, dun.
[3225.86 --> 3226.52] Dun, dun.
[3227.80 --> 3232.04] There's a rumor that Apple's working on an 8K times two VR headset.
[3234.70 --> 3236.24] An 8K display for each eye?
[3236.30 --> 3237.08] That would be fantastic.
[3237.68 --> 3240.04] I don't know how big this thing would be.
[3240.58 --> 3244.36] The box would be powered by a custom Apple processor that's more powerful than anything
[3244.36 --> 3246.88] currently available, and it would act as the brain for the headset.
[3246.88 --> 3252.52] In its current state, the box resembles a PC tower, but it won't be an actual Mac computer.
[3253.16 --> 3259.12] There's a few things that I'm really surprised aren't in the doc, and I don't have notes on
[3259.12 --> 3259.58] it, obviously.
[3259.88 --> 3264.92] But to, like, stepping stone you guys onto looking into yourself, there's apparently a huge lawsuit
[3264.92 --> 3269.26] going on right now over RAM pricing that we just got a bunch of news about.
[3269.26 --> 3280.88] There's Eric Lundgren is possibly going to prison for repairing, or for burning freeware onto
[3280.88 --> 3281.28] disks.
[3281.36 --> 3281.90] That is in here.
[3282.24 --> 3283.12] And then, oh, it is?
[3283.24 --> 3283.38] Okay.
[3283.48 --> 3285.56] Yeah, so that was posted by KenBlue24 on the forum.
[3285.64 --> 3287.46] That actually is really important to cover.
[3288.36 --> 3289.26] Let's go ahead and...
[3289.26 --> 3296.06] So, an e-waste activist gets 15 months in prison for selling Windows Restore disks.
[3296.46 --> 3299.06] Yeah, so these were downloaded from...
[3299.06 --> 3302.94] I don't know if you guys are going to remember this, to be completely honest, but back in
[3302.94 --> 3309.24] the day, you would get Restore disks with your laptop or your PC, your desktop, sorry.
[3309.64 --> 3314.32] And now, you can download them and burn them yourself or put them onto flash drives or whatever.
[3314.72 --> 3317.76] And he would charge, as far as I know, he would charge 25 cents.
[3317.76 --> 3319.02] 25 cents he was charging for them.
[3319.02 --> 3321.22] Which is essentially the cost of the disk.
[3321.46 --> 3321.84] Yes.
[3321.94 --> 3323.78] Like the physical medium that he put it onto.
[3324.02 --> 3324.16] Yeah.
[3324.48 --> 3328.08] There are a few additional problems that not a lot of people are putting light on.
[3328.16 --> 3334.24] One of them is that apparently they were labeled as, like, Microsoft Windows, which causes
[3334.24 --> 3335.30] a big problem.
[3335.30 --> 3337.02] Yeah, that's a big intellectual property problem.
[3337.40 --> 3342.18] But that was not the focus of the court case.
[3342.36 --> 3342.64] Right.
[3342.64 --> 3346.82] The focus of the court case was apparently selling the software.
[3347.76 --> 3355.30] When clearly the software is available for download and cannot be activated without a license.
[3355.54 --> 3358.22] And the license key is what actually matters here.
[3358.26 --> 3360.96] And he wasn't selling license keys.
[3361.14 --> 3361.98] He was selling...
[3361.98 --> 3368.78] He was selling helping people who had lost their recovery disk get Windows back on their computer
[3368.78 --> 3371.52] with their existing license key.
[3371.52 --> 3373.96] That's a really nice way because he was helping you do it yourself.
[3374.16 --> 3376.84] And he was doing it for 25 cents, the cost of the disk.
[3376.94 --> 3380.50] That doesn't properly, in my opinion, include labor.
[3380.84 --> 3383.90] That's, like, taking some business away from him directly.
[3384.32 --> 3389.20] And Microsoft apparently, as far as I know, went after him for the perceived value.
[3389.34 --> 3391.06] So I think it was, like, $20 a disk.
[3391.06 --> 3391.70] Yeah.
[3391.70 --> 3391.76] Yeah.
[3392.10 --> 3396.30] So saying that it was worth, like, almost three quarters of a million dollars.
[3397.00 --> 3401.48] And apparently their problem with all of this is that it is causing lost sales.
[3401.64 --> 3406.30] But that is a, frankly, bullshit argument.
[3406.58 --> 3407.38] It's completely incorrect.
[3407.46 --> 3410.52] Because those people already have a license for Windows.
[3410.80 --> 3415.36] So we shouldn't be trying to sell them another license for Windows because they already have one.
[3415.36 --> 3419.58] And that is what is known in the industry as a dick move.
[3421.28 --> 3423.02] So there's a couple of problems here.
[3423.32 --> 3424.56] He did break the law.
[3425.14 --> 3431.32] He did sell copyrighted material, which is wrong and bad and illegal.
[3433.52 --> 3444.12] But this kind of behavior, the intent, because I'm a firm believer that we should look not at the action so much as at the intent.
[3444.12 --> 3448.14] Like, if someone's like, you're a dick.
[3449.30 --> 3452.22] That's obviously really different from, you know what?
[3452.28 --> 3453.76] You're a really nice guy.
[3454.52 --> 3455.00] Yeah.
[3455.48 --> 3458.34] So there's what you say, but there's what you mean.
[3458.50 --> 3463.48] And in this case, yes, what he did was technically incorrect and technically illegal.
[3463.82 --> 3467.92] But it's the kind of thing where I think a letter probably would have done the trick.
[3468.26 --> 3473.66] And, like, yeah, it comes down to the basics of does the punishment match the crime?
[3473.66 --> 3476.80] And this is extremely not the case.
[3476.88 --> 3492.56] If someone was driving down the road at 200 kilometers an hour and they blow through a school zone, they would be unlikely to get 15 months in prison in spite of the fact that, okay, maybe no one actually gets hurt.
[3493.10 --> 3494.38] That's extremely dangerous.
[3494.38 --> 3501.26] They could easily, like, you know, hit a rock at that kind of a speed in a residential area.
[3501.32 --> 3503.08] And this thing, this kind of stuff happens.
[3503.42 --> 3509.76] They could have easily, like, hit a rock and flown into someone's house or, like, run over a bunch of school children or whatever the case may be.
[3509.76 --> 3511.84] Or the rock that they hit could have fired out and nailed someone.
[3511.84 --> 3513.66] They will not get 15 months in prison.
[3513.66 --> 3528.64] And here we're talking about with, as far as we can tell, a good intention, someone printing these disks and making them available to people who are not tech savvy enough to download them on their own.
[3529.02 --> 3531.44] And we're putting this person in prison for 15 months.
[3531.52 --> 3533.32] This really doesn't make a ton of sense to me.
[3533.48 --> 3535.76] Someone in Twitch chat was like, right to travel.
[3535.76 --> 3539.16] And honestly, I don't blame the courts for this.
[3539.30 --> 3540.72] I don't blame the law.
[3540.86 --> 3542.18] I don't blame the court system.
[3542.32 --> 3543.10] I blame Microsoft.
[3543.36 --> 3546.68] Microsoft should not be going after this guy.
[3546.78 --> 3556.40] They should have sent a strongly worded letter, told them not to do it, and ideally created a system where people can download these recovery disks far more easily.
[3556.40 --> 3562.90] Because as much as the disk does usually say on it, don't lose this or you won't be able to reinstall, that's BS too.
[3562.90 --> 3576.88] There is absolutely no reason why physical media, it is 2018, there is no reason why physical media should prevent you in any way from installing and using your software that you have a valid license for.

[3191.90 --> 3192.34] Whoa.

[3192.98 --> 3198.32] If you were wondering if the mining craze has reached the plateau and is coming down,

[3198.46 --> 3204.24] Taiwanese graphics card makers to see shipments plunge 40% in April.

[3204.86 --> 3207.54] So this includes Gigabyte, MSI, and Tool.

[3209.18 --> 3213.68] Many clients have suspended taking shipments in response to the drastic slowdown

[3213.68 --> 3215.94] in demand for cryptocurrency mining machines.

[3216.52 --> 3220.72] Many mining farm operators are apparently awaiting the rollout of Ethereum mining machines

[3220.72 --> 3223.68] by China's Bitmain in the third quarter of 2018.

[3224.62 --> 3225.86] Dun, dun, dun.

[3225.86 --> 3226.52] Dun, dun.

[3227.80 --> 3232.04] There's a rumor that Apple's working on an 8K times two VR headset.

[3234.70 --> 3236.24] An 8K display for each eye?

[3236.30 --> 3237.08] That would be fantastic.

[3237.68 --> 3240.04] I don't know how big this thing would be.

[3240.58 --> 3244.36] The box would be powered by a custom Apple processor that's more powerful than anything

[3244.36 --> 3246.88] currently available, and it would act as the brain for the headset.

[3246.88 --> 3252.52] In its current state, the box resembles a PC tower, but it won't be an actual Mac computer.

[3253.16 --> 3259.12] There's a few things that I'm really surprised aren't in the doc, and I don't have notes on

[3259.12 --> 3259.58] it, obviously.

[3259.88 --> 3264.92] But to, like, stepping stone you guys onto looking into yourself, there's apparently a huge lawsuit

[3264.92 --> 3269.26] going on right now over RAM pricing that we just got a bunch of news about.

[3269.26 --> 3280.88] There's Eric Lundgren is possibly going to prison for repairing, or for burning freeware onto

[3280.88 --> 3281.28] disks.

[3281.36 --> 3281.90] That is in here.

[3282.24 --> 3283.12] And then, oh, it is?

[3283.24 --> 3283.38] Okay.

[3283.48 --> 3285.56] Yeah, so that was posted by KenBlue24 on the forum.

[3285.64 --> 3287.46] That actually is really important to cover.

[3288.36 --> 3289.26] Let's go ahead and...

[3289.26 --> 3296.06] So, an e-waste activist gets 15 months in prison for selling Windows Restore disks.

[3296.46 --> 3299.06] Yeah, so these were downloaded from...

[3299.06 --> 3302.94] I don't know if you guys are going to remember this, to be completely honest, but back in

[3302.94 --> 3309.24] the day, you would get Restore disks with your laptop or your PC, your desktop, sorry.

[3309.64 --> 3314.32] And now, you can download them and burn them yourself or put them onto flash drives or whatever.

[3314.72 --> 3317.76] And he would charge, as far as I know, he would charge 25 cents.

[3317.76 --> 3319.02] 25 cents he was charging for them.

[3319.02 --> 3321.22] Which is essentially the cost of the disk.

[3321.46 --> 3321.84] Yes.

[3321.94 --> 3323.78] Like the physical medium that he put it onto.

[3324.02 --> 3324.16] Yeah.

[3324.48 --> 3328.08] There are a few additional problems that not a lot of people are putting light on.

[3328.16 --> 3334.24] One of them is that apparently they were labeled as, like, Microsoft Windows, which causes

[3334.24 --> 3335.30] a big problem.

[3335.30 --> 3337.02] Yeah, that's a big intellectual property problem.

[3337.40 --> 3342.18] But that was not the focus of the court case.

[3342.36 --> 3342.64] Right.

[3342.64 --> 3346.82] The focus of the court case was apparently selling the software.

[3347.76 --> 3355.30] When clearly the software is available for download and cannot be activated without a license.

[3355.54 --> 3358.22] And the license key is what actually matters here.

[3358.26 --> 3360.96] And he wasn't selling license keys.

[3361.14 --> 3361.98] He was selling...

[3361.98 --> 3368.78] He was selling helping people who had lost their recovery disk get Windows back on their computer

[3368.78 --> 3371.52] with their existing license key.

[3371.52 --> 3373.96] That's a really nice way because he was helping you do it yourself.

[3374.16 --> 3376.84] And he was doing it for 25 cents, the cost of the disk.

[3376.94 --> 3380.50] That doesn't properly, in my opinion, include labor.

[3380.84 --> 3383.90] That's, like, taking some business away from him directly.

[3384.32 --> 3389.20] And Microsoft apparently, as far as I know, went after him for the perceived value.

[3389.34 --> 3391.06] So I think it was, like, $20 a disk.

[3391.06 --> 3391.70] Yeah.

[3391.70 --> 3391.76] Yeah.

[3392.10 --> 3396.30] So saying that it was worth, like, almost three quarters of a million dollars.

[3397.00 --> 3401.48] And apparently their problem with all of this is that it is causing lost sales.

[3401.64 --> 3406.30] But that is a, frankly, bullshit argument.

[3406.58 --> 3407.38] It's completely incorrect.

[3407.46 --> 3410.52] Because those people already have a license for Windows.

[3410.80 --> 3415.36] So we shouldn't be trying to sell them another license for Windows because they already have one.

[3415.36 --> 3419.58] And that is what is known in the industry as a dick move.

[3421.28 --> 3423.02] So there's a couple of problems here.

[3423.32 --> 3424.56] He did break the law.

[3425.14 --> 3431.32] He did sell copyrighted material, which is wrong and bad and illegal.

[3433.52 --> 3444.12] But this kind of behavior, the intent, because I'm a firm believer that we should look not at the action so much as at the intent.

[3444.12 --> 3448.14] Like, if someone's like, you're a dick.

[3449.30 --> 3452.22] That's obviously really different from, you know what?

[3452.28 --> 3453.76] You're a really nice guy.

[3454.52 --> 3455.00] Yeah.

[3455.48 --> 3458.34] So there's what you say, but there's what you mean.

[3458.50 --> 3463.48] And in this case, yes, what he did was technically incorrect and technically illegal.

[3463.82 --> 3467.92] But it's the kind of thing where I think a letter probably would have done the trick.

[3468.26 --> 3473.66] And, like, yeah, it comes down to the basics of does the punishment match the crime?

[3473.66 --> 3476.80] And this is extremely not the case.

[3476.88 --> 3492.56] If someone was driving down the road at 200 kilometers an hour and they blow through a school zone, they would be unlikely to get 15 months in prison in spite of the fact that, okay, maybe no one actually gets hurt.

[3493.10 --> 3494.38] That's extremely dangerous.

[3494.38 --> 3501.26] They could easily, like, you know, hit a rock at that kind of a speed in a residential area.

[3501.32 --> 3503.08] And this thing, this kind of stuff happens.

[3503.42 --> 3509.76] They could have easily, like, hit a rock and flown into someone's house or, like, run over a bunch of school children or whatever the case may be.

[3509.76 --> 3511.84] Or the rock that they hit could have fired out and nailed someone.

[3511.84 --> 3513.66] They will not get 15 months in prison.

[3513.66 --> 3528.64] And here we're talking about with, as far as we can tell, a good intention, someone printing these disks and making them available to people who are not tech savvy enough to download them on their own.

[3529.02 --> 3531.44] And we're putting this person in prison for 15 months.

[3531.52 --> 3533.32] This really doesn't make a ton of sense to me.

[3533.48 --> 3535.76] Someone in Twitch chat was like, right to travel.

[3535.76 --> 3539.16] And honestly, I don't blame the courts for this.

[3539.30 --> 3540.72] I don't blame the law.

[3540.86 --> 3542.18] I don't blame the court system.

[3542.32 --> 3543.10] I blame Microsoft.

[3543.36 --> 3546.68] Microsoft should not be going after this guy.

[3546.78 --> 3556.40] They should have sent a strongly worded letter, told them not to do it, and ideally created a system where people can download these recovery disks far more easily.

[3556.40 --> 3562.90] Because as much as the disk does usually say on it, don't lose this or you won't be able to reinstall, that's BS too.

[3562.90 --> 3576.88] There is absolutely no reason why physical media, it is 2018, there is no reason why physical media should prevent you in any way from installing and using your software that you have a valid license for.