yeah it’s the one good thing amazon does.
You gotta pump those numbers up those are rookie numbers
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It’s one half of ‘bread and circuses’.
Quite a reductive view of sport.
But not inaccurate
I guess, but at the highest level it is a well paying job. You wouldn’t say that actors show up to work to prove that they’re the best. They’re doing something they are good at and getting paid for their time, and so are high level athletes. They’re both part of productions that entertain people. Yes, sports are a competition, but by and large people are watching for the drama.
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That’s a completely false equivalency, since the entire point of movie production is NOT a competition. Sports, however, is literally all about competition through feats of athletics and strategy.
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I’m gonna need some sources cited that the main reason the majority of people watch sports is for “the drama”.
What is the point of this comment? What “cause” do you think I have? My point is simply that sports are a form of entertainment like any other. There is expression, there is drama, there is tension, etc. Those who look down on people who enjoy watching sports are at best immature, and likely to be hypocrites as well.
The “cause” appeared to be appealing to the idea that piracy from sports companies hurts the poor players, who are just there to get paid, because whatever would the world do if Josh Allen made a few dollars less off of his $55 million per year deal?
However, given your clarification, I take less issue with your premise. I maintain that it was a bad comparison to actors, and that the companies within the oligopoly over sports broadcasting are all, universally and without equivocation, awful, the players are insultingly overpaid, the entire system needs to be dismantled, and that any action taken to undercut them is an axiomatic good.
I see, I do agree that players are overpaid relative to people who do more useful things for society, but I don’t think the situation is really any worse than other big entertainment industries. I have no issue with anyone that pirates anything, the people at the top of any industry already make more money than they need.
Thank you for the edit! That edit was very helpful for me to read.
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I mean if I’m at already someone’s house who’s got the game on I’ll watch the sweaty dudes in tights, just not for the game.
Why is it ALWAYS the sports companies?
Because that’s the biggest broadcast rights moneymaker. Cable would be full and truly dead without sports.
Old tech is holding the world together
Same way as an HDMI cable enables piracy?
Lately Ars Technica seems quite intent on losing any quality they had.
What kind of boot licking, inaccurate, non-news shit is this?
The only potential reason for this article is farming engagement bait clicks from people who don’t know shit about fire sticks, and from people like us stunned at the stupidity.
Or because they are a media company with a media owner/parent company that has an interest in directing public opinion that piracy bad mkay.
Internet enables most, if not all the piracy.
Wow… this is at least 3 times the world money stock worth of damage!
Atleast in countries with some sort of internet access. For example Cuba enjoyed current movies and shows despite a strict US/Western embargo through a combination of smuggled USB pen drives and a peer-to-peer radio network.
The real enablers are the guy who make the movies and tv shows in the first place. If they don’t make stuff, no one would pirate that stuff.
Poor service enables most, if not all piracy.
The mitochondria enables most, if not all, piracy.
One could say it powers most, if not all, piracy.
Mitochondria the powerhouse of
the cellpiracy.lol why do we all remember this irrespective of language. i speak austrian and many here know it too. xD
It’s fascinating, I’ve heard it online and in person from multiple nationalities.
In our case it’s not so special because my mother tongue is German…Your comment about speaking Austrian reminded me of one of my many visits to Germany. I was at the Oktoberfest in München and my group got chatting to a local, whereupon he proudly proclaimed: “Here… you are not in Germany; you are in Bavaria!” Made us chuckle :-)
Austria is atleast a real country (other than Bavaria) and from a recent travel to Vienna I can tell that Austrian is - while closely related to German - a language on its own.
Over twenty years since launch, the DRM solutions provided by Google and Microsoft are in steep decline. A complete overhaul of the technology architecture, licensing, and support model is needed. **Lack of engagement with content owners indicates this a low priority.**It’s funny that even the techbros don’t like them
Oh no! Anyway…
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Depends on how you want to go about it. If you want to host your own media on an old laptop, Jellyfin is free and Apple TV is one of the better client devices. If you want to stream it from a pirate site, you’ll likely need to jailbreak the device first.
rare amazon win
This is just “android sticks allow sideloading apps”. Nothing Amazon specific to any of this.
If Big Media is losing all this money, why aren’t they claiming these losses on their taxes?
Is it because the haven’t lost a dime?
They do
What formula do they use to calculate these losses? Are there guidelines posted by the IRS?
I’m sure they do what all huge corporations do.
Make shit up and then say “oops, sorry, here’s a tiny fraction of the profits we made keeping that money for so long as a fine teehee”.
Just leaving this here : https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
This is battle they can’t win and it just makes everything stupid trying.
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Yeah, but asking film/tv producers for permission would kill my content collection!
Ask by writing a letter that says if you don’t reply it means it’s okay, then the tricky part happens, you need to fold the letter into an airplane and throw it in the direction of Hollywood, ideally into a trash bin, or paper shredder.
