I wanted this but the original poster is transphobic
This is called the “analog loophole” and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it. They can encrypt and copy-protect all they want, but eventually the file has to be sent to a speaker and/or screen, and it has to get there in a human-readable form because that’s the whole dang point
The simplest way to exploit the analog loophole is just pointing a camera at a screen or a microphone at a speaker, but direct recording is also always possible and always will be. Anything that can be displayed can be saved and displayed again
Back in the day, people also used to share software over the radio with this technology. Because computer programs and files are really just sets of binary code, and that code can be turned into audio tones.
The resulting audio file can be played over the radio (sounding a bit like the old dial up noise, as it’s just two quickly oscillating notes) and recorded to a cassette tape, which you can then give to your computer to “decode” back into 0’s and 1’s, which gives you the program file. You can then run it as if you’d installed it from a disk.
Thought experiment poll. If Quality Universal Healthcare, Free State Colleges, and enough UBI to comfortably live off of were passed globally, would you want to eventually or continue to have a job? A job is, in this poll, defined as producing a good or performing a service in exchange for money. It can be full time, part time, commission based, whatever.
If UBI, Universal Healthcare, and Free State Colleges were available globally, would you want to work a job?
Yes
No
Please reblog for a bigger sample size. I feel like tagging this at all would skew it horribly, so I’m going pure snowball sampling because that’s what this website is designed for.
