The U2 album could be easily removed. The issue is that the average iTunes user doesn't remove songs from their libraries, and thus had no idea the option to do so even existed and just assumed they were stuck with the album.
I don't remember Gmail ever offering unlimited storage, and I can't find any record of that offer ever being made, either. When they first launched, they gave 1GB, which was the highest of any free email service at the time by an order of magnitude, but never unlimited.
Not even joking. Left or right, if you spend more than five minutes talking to somebody on the authoritarian side of the political spectrum, their relationship with their dad WILL get mentioned. They're obsessed with dads.
I wonder how this will affect stunt work, as studios are using AI more and more frequently to deepfake the actor's face onto the stuntman's performance. While it's still like 98% human performance on-screen, that 2% - the face - is really important for it to be replaced with AI-generated material.
Everything is regressed to a tiny square of a screen, that you barely look at.
This is precisely why I love my smartwatch. With the watch, I get a notification, I look at my wrist and read it, 95% of the time it's nothing important and I dismiss it, and then I go about my day.
Without the watch, I'll get a notification on my phone, 95% of the time it's nothing important and I'll dismiss it, but now I have the entire fucking internet just sitting in my hand so why shouldn't I look up how tall Greg Davies is?
I find that a smartwatch helps me to mitigate distractions, rather than introducing new ones. It's honestly been one piece of tech that I could actually still recommend to people these days.
Ironically, pasting the entire text of an article in the body of a Lemmy post is also a form of copyright infringement. So uhh... yeeeaaah.
EDIT: Not for EFF content, but generally speaking, it's not a great idea to post entire articles in the post body, as most news outlets will claim copyright to their articles.
A big part of the reason is that $100 notes are rarely handled by most people, even among cashiers. So the recipient of the counterfeit is less likely going to be familiar with the designs on the bill, and less able to identify imperfections. Cashiers handle hundreds of $20 bills every day, but might get a $100 bill once every six months (if ever) depending on where they work.
Another big part of the reason is that if you manage to break a counterfeit $100 bill for a $10 purchase, you're going to get $90 in real money back from the cashier. This is the main point of counterfeiting for most people; to turn the fake money into real change from purchases. You don't just want to buy your weekly groceries with the counterfeit, you want to "buy" something and get free money out of it. So a $100 bill helps to min/max that process, while offering a lot of flexibility in where and how you choose to "spend" it.
I imagine a similar exploit will work on Android devices, as well. Wouldn't have considered it, but it may be a good idea to figure out how to disable the content from appearing in the Android notifs, too.
The U2 album could be easily removed. The issue is that the average iTunes user doesn't remove songs from their libraries, and thus had no idea the option to do so even existed and just assumed they were stuck with the album.