The part about keeping it connected to internet also struck me - what happens if my internet goes down for hours? Or my power, which will take my internet with it?
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To receive the free TV, Telly users must submit detailed demographic info (such as age, gender and address), as well as purchasing behaviors, brand preferences and viewing habits, and they must agree to let their data be used for serving targeted ads. Telly’s TVs include a sensor that detects how many people are in front of the screen at any given moment.
So what’s the catch? Telly users must agree to several conditions under the company’s terms of service. If someone doesn’t abide by the TOS, Telly reserves the right to demand the TV be shipped back — otherwise, it will charge up to $1,000 to the credit card associated with a given account.
Among the Telly TV requirements: You must “use the product as the primary television in your household”; you must keep the TV connected to the internet at all times; and you are not allowed to use any ad-blocking software. In addition, users may not make “physical modifications to the product or attach peripheral devices to the product not expressly approved by Telly,” the company says in its terms of service. “Any attempt to open the product’s enclosure will be deemed an unauthorized modification.”
Why don't we just invite big brother right into our living rooms, eh?
Also, I guess you need approval to connect an Xbox, Playstation, or set-top box? What about my htpc?
A company is creating unauthorized derivative works of copyrighted materials for profit.
I feel like most traditional situations that would fall under that description would be clear-cut copyright violations. Why does AI get a pass?
I'm OOTL, could you eli5 or link to some good reading?
Once the herd settles, they'll suffer just about anything to avoid having to move.
As the late great Thomas Jefferson once wrote:
all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed
Funny how we keep seeing this same tendency play out in soooo many ways in so many contexts.
And 15 confirmations in, once they've got the "click OK" rhythm going, we can put one that says "would you like to keep your subscription active?"
I mean, define "too big".
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They seem to be doing alright atm, though who knows how much of that is a byproduct of recent immigration.
Consider a worse fate: they do exactly as we tell them to, until we become incapable of existing apart from them.
And then they break with no one to fix them.