this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2024
44 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

1425 readers
204 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
dgerard@awful.systems
44
Remember when everyone was meming about AI mushroom books poisoning people? (www.reddit.com)
submitted 3 months ago by pja@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
16 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Looks like it might actually have happened.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My wife just received an email from the online retailer. She has been asked to "Not take any photographs or copies of the product in question due to copyright issues" and it states, "the product must be returned immediately by special delivery by [DATE]." There's some other statements as well about our account being terminated if we fail to return the product by the specific date. We've got a lot of movies and series that we have purchased over the years on this account, I wouldn't want to lose them.

They've stated that taking photos of the book will break a bunch of laws. They also stated that not promptly returning the book would may break some laws, and lead to the termination of my account.

Does the CEO of Totally-Not-Amazon know that his company is signing it's name to stupid letters?

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I could easily see the vendor on Amazon (which is sent/replied to through Amazon addresses for transparency/documentation) sending this nonsense.

[–] superkret 2 points 3 months ago

keeping this thing you bought is illegal

Wouldn't even surprise me if that's true, with today's batshit insane corporate-written laws.