These days, all that dude now needs is a phone and probably a tablet. Maybe a laptop slung over his shoulder.
These days, all that dude now needs is a phone and probably a tablet. Maybe a laptop slung over his shoulder.
In a perfect world, every dollar we spend goes right to the creators who made the creation.
I would support musicians more if I knew my money was going straight to them. But a lot of the time, they aren’t, so I pirate out of spite against the labels for robbing the musicians through contract, how much they get.
I would support movies more if I knew my money was going straight to them. But a lot of the time, they aren’t, so I buy movies second-hand from thrift stores and not the studios themselves.
I would support games much more if I knew my money was going straight to them. But a lot of the time, they mostly aren’t. So I buy games dirt cheap and occasionally pirate.
And the video games industry can give a single fuck less about preserving them. Only bringing them back for a limited time under reselling compilations or as we’ve seen, those small consoles a few years back where only a hand picked library of games were pre-installed on them. They’re only brought out to simply make a quick buck, nothing more.
Out of those four, Cox is the one seemingly being the one who’s combative. The other three will fold easily and are complicit with any demand the studios have done.
So it is very hard to imagine, really.
Same. Wished it had just stayed as an idea. Wished it had stayed as just a concept to be used in movies, games, shows and books. Wished it had just stayed in it’s boundaries.
It works on stupid people not in the know.
But it doesn’t when you remind people about what Hollywood has done to it’s workers when AI was introduced. Then remind them of the Writer’s Strike. Then route them back to what the anti-piracy outfits want. Then have a good laugh because it is a good joke.
For a group of so-called intellectuals and rowdy revolutionists, Reddit users seem to have a knack for taking it up dry than doing anything about their problems.
I guess that is truly Reddit’s nature.
And Spez’s response?
“OMG! STOP GOING DARK OR I AND MY LEGION OF SLIME ADMINS WILL REMOVE YOU FROM POWAH!”
And so he did which is why some subreddits came back from being dark. Some subreddits submitted to their own fates. Other subreddits reluctantly came back, proving the protest was just a mere farce that amounted to a nothingburger.
And what did Spez do after the whole fiasco? Why, he punched Reddit into now being Public. Completing what people had long speculated that he’d do.
And what did Spez do after that? He’s now rolling out the concept that Subreddits will be monetized.
Spez has ultimately learned nothing from these incidents and expects it to get better, with that stupid shit eating grin on his face because he huffs and breathes in all of Musk’s farts.
That should be a mandatory phrase for all pirate communities.
Just a PSA: VPN and cover your ass as you pirate.
Oh…this is not good.
This is just going to be the floodgate effect for when copyright of any kind is going to be challenged against Internet Archive and we’ll see more losses.
I’m sad to say but I don’t think Internet Archive is going to have much longer.
In a Trump-lead administration and Ajit Pai heading FCC, this totally would’ve been passed by now. I don’t like how this is on the table at all and how the decision could go either way. But I’ll take that trade off than it for it to be guaranteed.
But, one bill (PERA) is from a Republican. The other bill (PREVAIL) is from a Democrat. So, this is a bipartisan effort to fuck over everyone here.