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Post by Mindwipe »

jandrese wrote: post #435
fnord77 wrote: post #414

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there'd probably be a netflix for ROMs if there were enough demand (I imagine the copyright holders would get onboard if the demand and $$ was there)

The only thing that prevents this from existing is the licensing nightmare of trying to track down who still owns the rights to those old ROMs. So many defunct companies and cases where even the people who worked on it have no idea who currently owns the rights. Had we kept the 28 year copyright duration from 1831 almost all ROM images would be in the Public Domain now.

It's difficult in some cases but demand is absolutely the main driver.

Much like Netflix, the reality is that people aren't actually very interested in old shows apart from a handful of super famous perennials which are already available anyway.

They say they are in surveys, but consumer behaviour does not back that up. They just use newer content in practice.

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Post by lelanthran »

saxonww wrote: post #354
lelanthran wrote: post #343

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> I have a friend who worked for 5 years at a big consultancy company and he got stonewalled for getting promoted to a team lead role because he didn't have a masters degree. Like, he was getting top marks every year at performance review, clearly knew how to do the job, but some internal policy somewhere said that you can't be a lead without a masters degree, sorry. Well, that's part of the job - are you able to fig…

This is the common refrain, but I think it's equally likely that it boils down to "I did this, so you should have to do this, too."

> This is the common refrain, but I think it's equally likely that it boils down to "I did this, so you should have to do this, too."

The reason is probably irrelevant: the organisation tells you what steps to take to get a promotion. If you fail to take those steps they consider you unsuitable for the promotion, not because they consider those steps to prove your capability, but because you have demonstrated an unwillingness to meet the minimum requirements.

Why the minimum requirements are what they are is irrelevant.

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Post by speeder »

kbenson wrote: post #487
jedberg wrote: post #464

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Netflix is getting into games for a reason. It's unclear if they only play to make new ones or also license old ones. But I agree with you, I'm surprised Steam doesn't have a way to get old ROMs.

> But I agree with you, I'm surprised Steam doesn't have a way to get old ROMs. Not quite old ROMs, but gog.com sells old computer games prepackaged for Dosbox, which because of that work on Windows, Mac and Linux. That's basically the old PC computer equivalent of what I believe Nintendo does by shipping the emulator with the ROM when you buy it through the Virtual Console so it runs as a whole.

I am abandonware collector of sorts, and one thing I liked is how all major abandonware site happily link to GOG.com when the game is up there.

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Post by knicholes »

Saris wrote: post #300
knicholes wrote: post #187

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Why not use crypto? Porncoin2.

You still need to pass through a bank to convert it to anything usable.

How will the banks know the crypto came from porn, though? Receive payments either to your own wallet or straight to Coinbase, convert to USD, transfer to your bank, and we're done, right? What am I missing?

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Post by rtkwe »

everyone wrote: post #482

So Visa and Mastercard have been pressuring only fans to do this. Threatening to withdraw their services. It is extremely worrying that these credit card companies can decide what media society at large can consume. What I am most curious about though, is why? Why do Visa and Mastercard give a shit what business their clients are in?

The big one is the BBC report that found they weren't doing a good job keeping under age people from signing up as creators and posting.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58255865

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

kipchak wrote: post #452
fnord77 wrote: post #414

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there'd probably be a netflix for ROMs if there were enough demand (I imagine the copyright holders would get onboard if the demand and $$ was there)

GameTap had a Decent collection of Sega consoles and arcade titles back in the day, though it unfortunately never got off the ground. Nintendo has been particularly aggressive regarding ligating against ROMs historically and sold them as individual units, though with the Switch's online service's free NES/SNES games it seems like they're dipping their toes into the model. I think the risk to them is if someone winds…

I worked on GameTap! Old ROM websites at the time had these click-through agreements that would say things like "you may only download these ROMs if you have explicit, written permission from the publisher" and I may be on of the only living people who've clicked one of those "I agree" links in good faith.

Technically, GameTap had some really neat little features. For example, it would track your high score for most emulated games, and for really old games where the score would rollover to zero, it noticed that and would let you see your effective grand total score. So there would be a global Galaga leaderboard that could happily go into the millions.

Regarding the success of the service, Gametap was live for a few years. It totally had its shot. GameTap was regularly advertised on TV. It had a pretty big library covering a dozen or so platforms: Several Ataris, ColecoVision, Intellivision, Sega, PC games, and more. They did a few high profile things like buying some failed MMOs and keeping the servers running for all GameTap subscribers.

At the end, I think it turned out that the folks who get really excited about playing ColecoVision games are the same folks who are very comfortable downloading ROMs.

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Post by fridif »

sandworm101 wrote: post #288
fridif wrote: post #256

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Your friend was working for a bureaucratic company. Source: I know plenty of engineers without any formal degrees working for big money at real companies.

If they dont have formal degrees, then "engineer" is a loose term. They would not be professional engineers (PE/PEng).

This is the reason why our country will die a soon approaching death: the people who built all of our engines for WW2 were not certified engineers.

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Post by toofy »

White this is temporarily great news for sex workers, its worth keeping a couple things in mind:

This would seem to be in large part an extension of the wider religious right and groups similar to the Moral Majority's push from previous decades to remove sexuality or "objectional content" from the public sphere.

This recent OnlyFans (and PornHub) pressure were driven in large part by pressure from Exodus Cry and NCOSE both of whoms ultimate goal is to remove sexually explicit content from the internet.

NCOSE has been around since 1962 but was previously called "Morality in Media" [0] They are attempting to obscure it now, but Morality in Media was open that they were a "Faith Based Organization" at the time. It seems like with the name change they are trying to obscure their foundations. You might remember them as the group who tried to make it illegal to sell Playboy magazines on military bases and who wanted to do away with "obscene language." Their group were the inspiration for George Carlin's bit "7 words".

Exodus Cry is an evangelical christian group who are open about their intentions to abolish sexually explicit content from the internet. [1]

I think its probably worth paying a little bit of attention to the undercurrents here because my guess is we're only seeing the beginnings of the religious right's ramp up. I think they'll probably try to grab momentum from some of the other more ... conpsiratorial(?) groups that have some popularity currently.

I think we'd be making a fairly serious mistake to underestimate these two groups.

Ill also be interested to see how they make use out of some more dark money style groups as they move forward in attempts to obscure who is behind the pressure campaigns.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180401043101/https://endsexual...

[1] https://exoduscry.com/abolitionist/

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