How fast are they burning money right now?

It says they are doing it to compete with iPad. Weird. Aren’t tablets sales across all brands constantly declining?

Public price lists from each studio’s clearing house. Licensing becomes like fuel at the pump. Doesn’t matter who pulls up they’re all paying the same rate.

Excellent write up. I think there are different kinds of pain and we’d need to measure to account for that.

When I’m at the BDSM club the women generally want and can take more pain. (Some guys are totally insane though.)

When I’m in my gravel biking group it’s very much the opposite. The dudes will slide down 20 ft of gravel and their legs look like someone took a cheese grater to them. They have a laugh, hop back on the bike, and finish the ride with blood in their shoes. The ladies generally take a little spill and loose a little skin and they are crying and want help walking their bike back to the car. (Some chicks are hard as nails though.)

Nah. We need legal protection to separate content creators and distributiors. Creator’s license content. Laws could mandate all distributors get access to the same pricing. Then you pick the distribution platform you enjoy.

Creator’s compete for views with quality content.

Distributors compete for users with features and curation.

No exclusive rights. No studio running a streaming platform. No streaming platform starting up studios. None of this anticompetitive lock-in.

I don’t know much about AI porn but I see a huge difference between putting a real person’s face on a real person’s nude body and putting an imaginary face on an imaginary nude body.

What part of the world does this idea come from? Men in general definitely don’t complain about pain more than any other gender in my region. I have noticed a gender difference between taking a nap, walking it off, and taking drugs. I could probably generalize a bit about who prefers rest, who prefers to grin and bare it, and who prefers to try to medicate it.

Now do the A spec.

Thanks for the tip.

I’ve been making a point to see original movies in theater this year. Not a ton of standouts but Monkey Man was the most fun I’ve had at an action movie since the original John Wick.

Anyone else have favorites to recommend?

Precisely. So much added expense for zero, or rather negative, added value.

Proving Netflix could be replaced by five hard working people.

Bragging about not helping others isn’t the flex you think it is. :(

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Is this real today or a prediction of the future?

You’re using the word ‘stolen’ which doesn’t fit. It would be accurate to say 'every answer comes from possibly unlicensed material '.

I’m a grown man with a fat bank account and I drink water from the tap as do my four kegged friends. I am lucky enough to be able to choose to live in a developed city with clean drinking water. Which really should be the norm. I know this story is supposed to be uplifting but it makes me sad.

++ Totally. 10€ a month can’t be close to the value of the data. If the cost was actually based on the value of the data it might be a valid choice.

I’m still curious where coercion comes into it?

You choose to visit Facebook. They’ve always provided services funded by your data. Now you get to choose between that model or compensating them directly.

Where does the coercion come in?

PS, I hate Facebook and don’t use it in case that matters somehow.