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At what cost, though? Most laws have some sort of benefit, but it always comes at a cost. Are we all willing to pay that cost?

You can blame Benjamin Franklin for that. By the time we figured out the mistake, the standards were set in stone.

VHS recordings of live TV are a bit different. According to Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., this practice is known as Time Shifting, which is simply making the recording available for later use. The ad money has already exchanged hands, and the work was already available for public use. The court rules 5-4 that this time shifting fell under fair use.

YouTube ad money works a bit differently, and downloading the video tends to bypass that process. Also, Streaming is by its nature on-demand, so there are a lot fewer benefits for downloading the video. Furthermore, U.S. copyright law has changed since the previously cited case, so there are some extra restrictions to contend with that the Sony case did not.

The author makes the case that EULAs are "toothless." However, what about federal law? In the U.S., at least, it is illegal to make copies of other people's work. This is not an offense against YouTube (who does not inherently own the media they present), but the publishers, the creators, etc. Somehow, I doubt that Alan Becker would approve people downloading and sharing his videos willy-nilly.

Whether or not SteamOS installed them is irrelevant. All the hacker would need is to compromise a machine that had some sort of remote access to other devices (ssh in this case, with some sort of keylogger to decrypt the private key).

Well, Arch has (historically) been rather difficult to install from scratch, and requires a lot of Linux knowledge to get up-and-running as a daily driver. If one is installing it for the first time and misses something (which audio backend?), it can be rather frustrating down the line.

There is a reason Ubuntu is usually the first distro new Linux users go to. For almost a decade now, installing a feature-complete Ubuntu setup is not much more difficult than reimaging Windows.

I had the regular librewolf-bin package installed on a couple of my machines. It took me a bit of time to note that librewolf-fix-bin is something separate.

As @lillylizard pointed out, it turns out that these are new packages, not comprised existing packages like I first thought. Still, the nature of the hack is a Remote Execution, as you pointed out elsewhere, meaning the hacker could pull my router password from the password manager, or grab my SSH keys and log into whatever machine is listed in the known_hosts, or just mess with my Ebay account and the credit card saved on there. The hacker could in theory do literally anything I could do.

I only just noticed the difference myself. That was a scare!

This is really scary for those who manage multiple things. I'm considering running a factory reset on everything from my router to my Steam Deck and remote server.