I don’t care if the robot that speaks English read the entire library.

How else was it going to happen?

See Flash websites ripping each other off for five years on either side of Youtube’s introduction.

See Bittorrent moving more video than Netflix until like 2012.

See twenty years of web-based P2P experiments. Weirdos with fat hard drives (hi) will always be happy to seed.

Or - crazy thought - services could cost money. It would not take much. Youtube’s not getting ten bucks each time you watch a video. Bandwidth and storage keep getting cheaper. Nor are they paying for content, unlike Netflix and so on, and those fuckers are also considering ads.

Advertising is poison.

We could just ban it.

That’s adorable. Video you can maybe fight. Megabytes of JPGs? It is to laugh.

Never give Nintendo money.

You can’t retain extra rights by slapping “NO COPYRIGHT INTENDED” on your own comments.

Nintendo is a toy company. They sell plastic. For the last thirty-odd years, video games have been their primary means of doing so.

console manufacturers might start slapping DRM into their consoles

… start?

Yeah? Such a dick about it, Nintendo. Your platform is not special and people will run software however they please.

Emulation is legal. Emulation will remain legal. If you can’t deal with it except through courtroom bullying, may devs should look into SLAPP defenses.

Firefox.

You go to a website and click “save as.”

“One two three not it.”

Unless they were shooting with anamorphic lenses, that’s still cropping 4:3 to 16:9.

The real issue is that AFAIK the show’s never been remastered from film. All we have are DVD transfers - and filters on top of that.

You’d describe the encoding, not the source. The fun part is that it also applies to audio. “At 256 kbps, MP3 is transparent.”

It only applies to lossy codecs. Lossless codecs, by definition, have no error. “Error” itself being a borrowed term. Good encodings don’t have fewer errors… they have less error. For example, measured as mean squared error, where an individual sample being very wrong counts more than many samples being slightly wrong.

Misread as “gaming industry” and was briefly very confused.

Let me save you some time: not enough.

it still looks near original.

Presumably you know, but for anyone else: the word for this is “transparent.” It’s when the codec leaves no noticeable artifacts.

I’ve done the math for how long it’d take to randomly guess the last several kilobytes until something checksummed correctly.

I was not pleased with the answer.

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Paul versus Baby Driver really illustrates what Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s chemistry bring to a movie versus what Edgar Wright’s directing brings to a movie.

And even in combination, the trio only nailed it two out of three times. The World’s End is just… okay.

Copyright should be irrelevant immediately, for most of that.

Someone modifying software you sold them is not a pirate. Licenses mean nothing.

Someone sharing a game you stopped selling is a pirate, but if you don’t want money, who cares?

Someone sharing clips of old sports games is not competing with your live broadcast business.

Intellectual property laws don’t need to be brief, to be sane. Most things that rights-cartels freak out over are downright stupid. We can give them what they need without tolerating their every paranoid want. These laws only exist to benefit us.

Simplicity is useful here. I’m willing to spot people a nice round number for ample opportunity to sell their thing. Especially if it means the date on the cover is a guarantee.