richmondez

There is more than one type of water, but unless your IoT device is a fusion reactor it’s probably just running off the normal blend.

Even if they would otherwise have subscribed, that money will be spent elsewhere in the economy, its potential revenue the streaming companies couldn’t secure, it’s not a loss to the economy unless it’s a foreign user.

Can’t see how it can, it’s not like if that money isn’t spent on entertainment then it’s just lost, it’s just spent on other goods and services or put in savings that the banks loan out to other people to generate economic activity. Unless people are literally burning the money or exclusively spending it on foreign goods and services it’s not costing the economy per se.

Copyright infringement for me but not for thee.

Won’t someone think of the billion dollar businesses?

Disappointed to see so many people picking and choosing what is and isn’t acceptable to pirate.

We don’t know the OP circumstance and it’s a big assumption that he can just pay and it not be an issue in some way.

Average people deserve to get paid but we aren’t talking about scamming some custom content out of them, they already made the material in question and it’s a sunk cost, selling copies is as much rent seeking behaviour as when it’s done by big companies.

Also, let’s not use emotive incorrect language like “stealing” as it’s not, it’s copyright infringement, no one is stealing anything.

How do you even start to quantify something like a TV show? Without piracy would you have had subscription services, seen it free when it came on local TV and/or bought a box set of it? Similar situations exist for other media too, which “full price” are we talking about?

Hence the term “sunk cost fallacy”.

It’s more like the old school file sharing networks of like napster and emule. You give it a directory to share and it makes files in those directories available to download on the network and you can download what other people are sharing.

Are you suggesting that AAA games are such premium, high quality products they should only be experienced by a few wealthy individuals who can afford the budget to buy them? Because that is what your analogy suggests.

At a glance it looks like software to roll your own pirate bay equivalent? Not sure why you’d want to do that exactly when there is bitmagnet to sit on top of the torrent dht?

You should download it to a personal media server and stream it to your phone if you want to enjoy piracy the modern way.

An iso is a dump of a kind of rom…

But once you have it’s output, unless you already know enough to judge if it’s correct or not you have to fall back to doing all those things you used the AI to avoid in order to verify what it told you.

So much negativity, regardless of motivation shouldn’t we applaud big companies for doing the right thing and reward them? Or are we all just going to fall over ourselves to give TakeTwo our money for GTA6 after they’ve screwed with the community?

OpenRA is just a set of fan games though skinned to look like the originals, this code is the real deal to play the original gane content. OpenRA only has remakes of the early games too, the source release has Renegade and General/Zer Hour.

If it keeps newcomers from making mistakes in client choice it looks like a good thing to me?

I used to be with “it”. Then they change what “it” was. Now what I’m with isn’t “it” amd what’s “it” seems wierd and scary to me. It will happen to you.

Bioware has been replaced a person at a time ship of theseus style with lesser quality staff, the magic has long departed and it’s just another mediocre studio now trading on a name.

Just like pretty much all media ever really. It’s not like many novels, songs, movies and TV shows are world wide hits either.