Good too know. I guess i need to do more reading.

Yeah, that’s a good analysis. I’ve gotten in to it with friends over “consumer choice”, where they tell me “Oh, the customers didn’t want x thing that’s why you can’t get x thing” and I’ll hit back with “The manufacturers decided they didn’t want to support x thing for whatever reason, or that they could squeeze people for more money without x thing, and they have hegemonic control over the market share for that kind of product, so they can force the consumers to do what they tell the consumers to do” and they look at me like I have three heads. : p

Makes me think of the guy who, afaik, is the only guy in the world who is a reliable source for working floppy disks. The little ones, the big ones, the really big ones that are from before even my time. He works really hard to track down any intact ones he can get, then re-sell them to people who have ancient, ancient systems running key infrastructure.

Dammit someone turned on accessibility features and now there’s confetti on my screen whenever I click. Ted stop messing with my machine!

Gimme a sec I’ll see if I can hunt down an article.

Okay here are some start points

https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/27/how-the-content-industry-almost-killed-blockbuster-and-netflix/ - Broad overview

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios,_Inc. - Here’s the wiki on a really critical case that basically decided the future of media

I love that Fred Mother-Fucking Rodgers, ie Mr. Rogers, ie “I fought the Klan and I won” Fred Rogers, had a critical role testifying in front of the supreme court in favor of allowing people to record things at home for later viewing. Such an incredible man. |

If you’re not familiar with it check out the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, probably one of the most destructive censorship regimes in terms of sheer scope in human history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act

Another one to check out if you weren’t around for it, the Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal back in ought-5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

Is this a serious take? It’s a 5-second search on Google or any large store.

I just don’t have any installed physical media drives anymore. Haven’t for years, so I haven’t bothered to look.

North Korea Down BAD?

This is an emergency

I think a lot of it depends on your ISP. Some of them are nosier than others.

Honestly people should probably be thinking about future-proofing things and putting as much media as physically possible on to drives in anticipation of whatever the next wave of bullshit. At some point Samizdat2.0 will probably be the only way to preserve and share media under the capitalist censorship regime. They’re just going to keep cracking down and cracking down and cracking down until no one can move without bleeding for the privilege.

As they said in the bad old days: Keep circulating the tapes.

Until we can pull this whole bullshit edifice down, kick it in the kidneys a few times, and set it on fire the only way to protect media from the companies that “own” it is going to be little people with really big RAID arrays.

As far as I know internet advertising is an economy destroying sunk cost fallacy. No one makes money off of it, but if they stop basically everything collapses catastrophically, so they just keep pouring more money in to it in hopes that someone will find a way to make it profitable before the bill comes due.

Might fuck around and start invoicing companies for attention time, comprehension time, storage capacity, and of course the 500$ per instance recall fee.

We really have a moral duty to make piracy as easy, one button, even grandpa can do it as possible.

Not for any, like, good of humanity reason.

But as part of my revenge against The Mouse.

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Cool, thank you for the explanation.

No but it seems you might ; )

h shit I spilled the beans!

I don’t see what Farmer Ham of Giles is going to add to your analysis honestly.

I think the bias is towards empirical evidence and the agenda is creating a better world for ourselves and our descendents, but I’m just a bot beep boop.

I don’t know where you got the idea that I mean anything about a centralized foreign intelligence

Bargain bin at Walgreen’s, two for a dollar, but I think it’s ending soon.

Currently reading Infinite Jest but I’m going to be honest I don’t think it’s really for me.

It’s pretty wild that the US engaged in an economic attack that destroyed the Japanese economy, despite the Japanese government pretty much being a US puppet running on a constitution the US wrote, because they were too good at making VCRs.

Yeah, yeah, good point. It’s honestly shocking, I spend so much time in Hexbear I forget how common and casual misogyny and queerphobia are out in the ret of the world.

correspondence bias

So, like, instead of making assumptions about someone’s internal life, look at the material, economic, social situations they’re in and ask of those situations are dictating or constraining their behavior?