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Can we not shift this from the very important issue of how stupid this streaming situation is into the much less important, albeit still valid, “one rich athlete spends slightly less than his fair share in this one instance”—no one is defending this guy because he’s rich, only because it’s the irony of the situation
The more people who pirate, the better. It doesn’t matter who as long as everyone is getting away with it equally
Who are they stealing my personal data from, corporation?? Are they stealing it from me or from you??
Trolling is a art form
People don’t understand: we already outlawed “theft” and “stealing”—we wouldn’t need COPYright laws if they prevented theft or stealing 😂 they only prevent copying, aka not theft or stealing.
But people keep strawmanning “stealing is bad mmkay???”
I’m not sure how you can look at hundreds of years of IP laws getting btfo by pirates and say the ship is sinking 😂
I’m sorry, but until you can somehow answer the question of “how to make people avoiding laws impossible?” without causing a revolution, there will be laws avoided by people
No laws have ever stopped people from getting what they want. Games will be made by those who hate IP laws and be played by those who seek it. Will that scene be a trillion dollar industry backed by governments and international corporations like the AAA scene is today? Probably not. Will a punk indie scene exist? Of course.
Every popular entertainment medium that has a giant industry will see these same results as well. Movies, books, music, etc. As long as the medium is popular, it will persist outside of IP laws.
Thom has a point about Trump and not playing in America. Personally I’d rather see more people boycott America.
I don’t think anyone is against paying to watch a decent quality sports stream without popups and any additional ads. I won’t give the nfl $100/mo but I’ll pay $50/yr for some pirated setup
You can just look at the source code… no need to assume anything. You can’t prove a negative lol
Yeah, that one. Definitely wish it was FOSS so these people won’t be dependent on corporate intellectual property existing.
Looking forward to hearing that the arm stops working after company folds and nothing can be done because the software was closed source
All good homie. Just trying to make people have a little chuckle 😄
Just a joke :P be a little light-hearted 😁
Exactly: Net neutrality is a publicly acknowledged individual by small tech that wants to censor liberals.
People hated it.
These guys are literally the bottom of the totem poll (none of them are managers etc), there’s a reason theres a players union
They’re rich, but they ain’t likely upper class