Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B • Hacker News Board

Re: Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

#841

Post by menor » Sat, May 29, 2021, 7:22 AM UTC

hardwaregeek wrote: post #270

paganel wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 love old movies, especially around the 50's-70's, but I'll admit that you're not gonna see a whole lot of diversity in that era. I'm not meaning to moralize. It's just hard to find movies that say, have an Asian character that isn't a horrible racist caricature.

There are lots of awesome asian movies in that period.

Re: Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

#842

Post by nkozyra » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 1:51 PM UTC

skystarman wrote: post #829

nkozyra wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But still people insist that they must pirate because the "studios" for some amorphous reason related to preexisting hatred of corporations or whatever. This is not a good faith reading or interpretation. The frustration is in the fragmentation; having to subscribe to multiple services to get the content you want because it's otherwise siloed. Hitting that point - having to subscribe to 3 or more services to get a…

You don't have to subscribe to 3 or more services to get a "small subset" of the service's offerings. You get ALL of their offerings. The idea that you should pay less than $8 for Disney Plus because you only want to watch Mandalorian when you actually get access to literally dozens of extremely high quality titles is just fucking dumb. The previous option was pay $14 per person to go to a theater and that's the only…

> It's all just ludicrously deranged mental gymnastics to justify the fact you don't want to pay for anything.

This is incredibly backwards. I want to pay for what I want. That's how it works with literally every other product on earth, including the movie theater you brought up. I don't have to spend $80 for 4 movies when I only want to watch one. I don't have to spend $20 on bananas, apples, grapes when I only want a mango.

Re: Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

#843

Post by cabalamat » Wed, Jun 02, 2021, 10:37 AM UTC

tmp231 wrote: post #691

cabalamat wrote: post #682

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Government regulation would be one solution. Another would be less government regulation, specifically making piracy legal.

Less government regulation doesn’t mean violating contract law.

Yes it is, because copyright law (like all laws) is government regulation.

Re: Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

#844

Post by CRConrad » Wed, Jun 02, 2021, 4:34 PM UTC

listenallyall wrote: post #720

bogwog wrote: post #628

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

And for every new generation of know-nothings that grows up to replace the veterans of wars long past, all the old battles will need to be re-fought... Sigh. I'm too old for this shit; geroffmylawn.