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It's possible to get away with quite a lot under transformative use even when it's commercial, consider Cariou v. Prince for example: https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/landmark-copyright-lawsuit-cariou-v-prince-is-settled-59702/

In Fallout with scrapping sure, but TES? There are a ton of items, like all the kitchenware, that are just for decoration and served no greater purpose.

Not sure if it's intentional but I've noticed there are some ways to anger the security "faction" without getting a bounty - I think it's when you do something directly to a guard (like intimidation ability) but are sneaking so don't actually get caught doing it.

Exiting the area and sleeping for 48 UT hours should hopefully make them forget about you.

Going by the story DLCs for Fallout 4 and Skyrim, I'd expect it to be mostly orthogonal to the main quest so that players can experience it regardless of how far along they are.

The DLC could require getting to some point in the "first act" (e.g: meeting constellation, or finding the first temple), but it seems very unlikely that it'll require us to even know about the unity.

My guess is that one of the DLCs will be about House Va'ruun and take us to Va'ruun'kai.

I've been feeling the same. There's a whole system with cargo links, fabricators, power generation, and tiers of extractors, but then nothing you can set up production for seems to have any purpose to mass-produce except setting up even more production.

There is one exception: manually mass-crafting components (on PC you can do 99 in one click) is a good way to farm XP and is a big resource sink. I've currently got an aluminum + iron setup to let me craft hundreds of thousands of adaptive frames, but I think the optimal setup, for most XP per click, would have cargo links shipping all the prerequisite components for an exotic component to one base (probably on Venus, for fastest time skipping [edit: cargo links work on playtime rather than UT time, unfortunately, so sleeping doesn't work]).

In terms of more intentional mechanics, something like being able to manufacture ammo (even if it took a lot of resources) would give it a purpose within the context of the rest of the game.

It doesn't have "memory" of what it has generated previously, other than the current conversation. The answer you get from it won't be much better than random guessing.

For my understanding artistic works get copyright from the moment of their creation. This would allow one to pick battles based on how lucrative they may potentially be.

In the US, you need your copyright to be registered in order to file an infringement suit or be granted statutory damages. This must be done prior to the infringement, so they wouldn't be able to pick and choose which to register after the fact. The fact that (unregistered) copyright arises from the moment of creation is true, but not particularly useful here.

You dont really need art museum of babel for this but you just tons of different works that may contain unique characters, structures or objects similar to what someone might be able to imagine or has already imagined.

Copyright is not the same as patents or trademarks; someone coincidentally creating something very similar or even an exact replica of your work is not infringement.

If whether you copied from their work or independently made similar choices is under question - then close similarity of the works could skew the balance of probabilities. However, the courts will be able to see that coincidental similarity is far more likely if a colossal number of images have been registered.

You may draw fan art with disney characters but its actually illegal to sell said art work without Disneys aproval until copyright expires.

It's still copyright infringement even if you publish it non-commercially, but a Fair Use defense would likely hold up.

To file an infringement suit they'd need to have paid registration for each work which, even for the exorbitantly rich, wouldn't be remotely feasible for all logical arrangements of words/images. There's probably not even enough space in the Universe or time until its heat death to generate and store all such images.

Even if they did, copyright doesn't protect against against independently created works that happen to be similar or even identical - so they wouldn't be exhausting some limited set of possible works by doing so.

they are looking for specific ones that are in a database

They could be looking for any images without your knowing - there's no guarantee that those images came from a CSAM database.

Its not like they can create a hash for a guy letting his dog on a horse

They could trivially create a hash for a picture of a guy letting his dog on a horse (which would also include other very similar images).

I didn't necessarily mean to claim that they can scan for a concept lacking a fixed image, if that's what you're saying. That would theoretically be possible with enough hashes, but impractical.

And how was it privacy compromising?

1. Anything could be added to the hashes with the user having no way to know what's being searched for beyond "trust us". This could be partially alleviated if, for example, the hash had to be signed by organizations in a combination of states that'd make it difficult to push through hashes for anything other actual CSAM (so not just Five Eyes)

2. Adversarial examples to intentionally set off the filter were demonstrated to be possible. Apple made it clear that there are types of content they'd be legally obligated to report once they became aware of, and it'd be well within a government agency's capabilities to honeypot, say initially, terrorist recruitment material

3. Coincidental false positives are also entirely possible (ImageNet had some naturally occuring clashes) and can result in their employees seeing your sensitive photographs

4. The user's device acting against the user cements other user-hostile and privacy-hostile behavior. "People could circumvent the CSAM scan" would be given as another reason against right to repair and ability to see/modify the software your own device is running

5. Tech companies erode privacy by flip-flopping between "sure we're giving ourselves abusable power, but we'll stand up to governments pressuring us to expand this" and then "well what were we supposed to do, leave the market?" when they inevitably concede