Author verifies the legitimacy of The Authors Registry after receiving a $600 royalty check, sharing his experience to help others.
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The author argues that traditional piracy is dead, redefined by corporations like Meta using scraped, pirated content to train AI models without consequence.
The author announces a change in the blog's content license from CC BY-SA 4.0 to the more permissive CC BY 4.0, citing a shift in perspective on licensing reciprocity.
Analyzes Prusa's business struggles in the 3D printing market, arguing their issues stem from a lack of business model diversification, not open-source licensing changes.
Analyzes illegal commercial forks of FOSS projects like OBS Studio, exploring license violations and the clash between gaming industry IP views and free software values.
