The whole reason the film industry is on the west coast is that they were trying to avoid paying for Edison’s patent on the motion picture camera. So, yeah, Hollywood was founded on IP violations.

Baron Harkonnen was a pedophile and consent never mattered for him.

It’s a win/win. Either way, I don’t have to deal with it anymore.

Don’t use Windows? No good reason to use Microsoft as a consumer OS anymore. Alternatives exist. Corps only respond to money. Don’t use or buy Microsoft or LG products. As long as you use MS the shitshow will continue. Complaining does nothing.

Enterprise or commercial products might still require MS.

Linux, Mac, BSD, Haiku, ReactOS are just a few operating systems that will work.

Free and “it just works” flavors or Linux are Fedora KDE and Mint. Haiku and ReactOS are still works in progress.