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Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

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Re: Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

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Post by d110af5ccf »

leetcrew wrote: post #540
jjulius wrote: post #408

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>... and it was a big deal. It's my understanding that Xfinity sends a few warning notices, just a little slap on the wrist, before they end up terminating your account or something (though a quick cursory Google brings up a Reddit thread where someone claiming to have worked for Cumcrust said they never saw any accounts terminated for that). I know I received one letter like 7 years ago for downloading 'Christmas Va…

maybe times have changed, but before I got a VPN, I used to get copyright notices all the time. I didn't notice for a few years because they went to an @comcast.com email address that I never checked. when I finally looked, I saw pages and pages of sternly written emails. if freely torrenting movies for years isn't enough to get disconnected, I dunno what is.

That's odd. For a long time the standard response in the US was to severely throttle connection speed for some duration if there were too many notices within a given time period.

Re: Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

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Post by alternatetwo »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #612
caeril wrote: post #512

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> No it isn't. It's a workaround. Sure, but it's a trivially easy workaround. Our focus of attention on matters of regulation ought to be in those areas where working around the problem is not nearly as dead simple as a torrent client, a NAS, and a Plex server.

It's really not. I'm a computer geek, and I'm LONG past the point where setting up safe VMs and signing up to half a dozen services like newsgroup server and directories and search engines and what nots, download software with impossible names like sabnzbd (I'm waiting up for somebody to scream how nobody uses sabnzbd anymore, it's been replaced by jidwiaj and iqerqip, which are super easy, and that just proves my po…

I spend 11 pounds a month on a seedbox where you can just download everything via http or even stream it probably afterwards. It's really not that complicated.

Re: Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

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Post by listenallyall »

DrBazza wrote: post #244
paganel wrote: post #83

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Or we could fall back to watching movies made from the ‘30s to the ‘50s, that’s what I have been doing for more than half a year now and it has been wonderful for my mental well-being (they really knew how to make comedies back then, even after the Hayes code).

I've just made this comment myself. It's amazing how much casual violence there is in modern films that you just don't notice because it's everywhere. I've watched more black and white classics in the last 15 months than I have in the last 20 years. Particularly the old sci-fi, horror, and slapstick films. Harold Lloyd, The Three Stooges, and Chaplin. Plus all the old St Trinians, and Sherlock Holmes. Abbot and Coste…

Certainly no violence in the 3 Stooges. Lol, every episode would be considered a documentary of domestic abuse today.

Re: Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

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Post by wayoutthere »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #716
wayoutthere wrote: post #254

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I recently finished a rewatch of it. It has held up far better than it has any right to. One thing that’s really stood out to me is the insane amount of technology change that happened over SG-1 — the show ran from 1996 to 2004. It went from laughable 3D CG on a Showtime budget, CRTs and landlines to heavy CG on a SciFi Channel budget, flatscreens and tiny cell phones. It does have its dumb moments though. Basically…

> flatscreens and tiny cell phones That one surprised me (positively) when I noticed it. Particularly when I binge-watched it end-to-end and saw how the cellphones evolve across the show. > Basically anything involving real-world weapons or explosives You're telling me that P90 is not the weapon to save the galaxy?

> You’re telling me that P90 is not the weapon to save the galaxy?

Except for that season where the prop shop couldn’t find P90 ammo, so they switched to an AR pistol.

Re: Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

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Post by NaturalPhallacy »

asdff wrote: post #654
chrisseaton wrote: post #110

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'free to watch' as long as you like commercials.

Advertising is a thing in netflix productions too, you know. Really takes you out of Stranger Things when you see them set down a coke can with the label perfectly aligned to the camera.

Product placement.

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Post by bogwog »

vel0city wrote: post #704
bogwog wrote: post #628

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The other day I was helping my brother setup Python on his Windows 10 computer. So I went to python.org and installed it as usual, then why I typed "python" in the console, it launched the Microsoft Store app and took me to the download page for their distribution of Python. Apparently, it's some kind of alias "feature" they added to Windows at some point. What legitimate reason is there for that if not to try and tr…

The Microsoft Store version is managed by the PSF and is a legitimate method of getting it. It went to that because you didn't choose the option to add python to the PATH, so the console didn't have a python executable to run.

I did choose to add it to the PATH, and even double checked the variable manually.

The only way to get it to use my installed version was to disable that alias feature in the Windows 10 settings app.

Re: Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

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Post by [deleted] »

scyzoryk_xyz wrote: post #23

So what we're seeing is a repeat of the film industry from 1930's-1950's. You want to see a Paramount movie, you must go to a Paramount theater. Today you want to watch an Apple show you must go to Apple's VOD. We could really use laws that force, once again, some sort of separation between production and distribution. Better stuff gets made in this kind of ecosystem.

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Post by bogwog »

listenallyall wrote: post #720
bogwog wrote: post #628

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The other day I was helping my brother setup Python on his Windows 10 computer. So I went to python.org and installed it as usual, then why I typed "python" in the console, it launched the Microsoft Store app and took me to the download page for their distribution of Python. Apparently, it's some kind of alias "feature" they added to Windows at some point. What legitimate reason is there for that if not to try and tr…

Holy shit, you typed "python" in a console window so the OS looked for an existing install, didn't find one, so it tried to help you! How evil and awful! Burn M$$$$ down! unknown command 'python' is the only proper way to respond!

That’s not what happened. Python was installed and on the PATH, it just refused to use it as long as that alias check box was turned on in system settings.

Try it yourself.

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Post by [deleted] »

aerosmile wrote: post #546
echelon wrote: post #447

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The solution is to break up big tech. Amazon shouldn't be ten companies in one. Google shouldn't be able to set web and mobile standards, then reap ad monies by forcing everyone to accept their anticompetitive changes. Apple shouldn't be the sole guardian of iPlatform. You can't have a protection racket on 50% of all commerce (phones >> gaming consoles) and enforce what gets put on the device. These companies don't h…

I love how the term "break up big tech" includes "break" in it. Kind of makes you realize what's really at stake here. Sure, you don't want monopolies, but is breaking US companies going to actually prevent monopolies, or are you just shifting the balance of power from US companies to Chinese companies? Because you sure as hell are not going to break those up - and Tik Tok has demonstrated what should be obvious: we…

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Post by tomc1985 »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #612
caeril wrote: post #512

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> No it isn't. It's a workaround. Sure, but it's a trivially easy workaround. Our focus of attention on matters of regulation ought to be in those areas where working around the problem is not nearly as dead simple as a torrent client, a NAS, and a Plex server.

It's really not. I'm a computer geek, and I'm LONG past the point where setting up safe VMs and signing up to half a dozen services like newsgroup server and directories and search engines and what nots, download software with impossible names like sabnzbd (I'm waiting up for somebody to scream how nobody uses sabnzbd anymore, it's been replaced by jidwiaj and iqerqip, which are super easy, and that just proves my po…

Yeah, you could do that... or get an invite to a private torrent site and go wild with a cheap seedbox

Like, what even is all that other stuff?

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