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My understanding was that they were being cut off by payment processors and banks and that drove the decision. Was this resolved?
I don’t understand why they don’t just use Bitcoin or some other crypto, seems like this is the exact use case it was designed for
The most popular options, BTC & ETH, are incredibly expensive for $20 subscription payments.
The other platforms are capitalizing on the news and finding ways to make migration to their platform as easy as possible.
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How are there 4TB of ROMs? Does that number include non ROM dumps like CD, DVD and BD games too?
CD, DVD and BD are all ROMs too. In a computer (and therefore videogame console) sense, these all are technically called CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, and BD-ROM.
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Why is piracy of games for a 20-year-old console a problem? Is anyone still selling new games for those consoles?
The rightsholder wants to be able to sell the game to you again on a new platform to keep collecting revenue off it
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Nope. There was a little upkick at the start of the pandemic according to Sandvine, but Sandvine's methodology is not watertight and lots of people staying at home with not much to do seems a more likely culprit than service fragmentation.
anecdotally, I freeload on a Netflix account paid for by a friend, and last year I was tempted to get my own subscription. Then I noticed Netflix had fewer and fewer movies I was interested in, and just went back to sailing the high seas.
You can throw money at directors, and actors, but there are just so many great movies, and most were made by hollywood years ago.
The owners of those great films, started their own streaming service.
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And also why piracy is increasing again as the movie/TV series space is becoming so fragmented.
I've actually heard that quite often and it seems anecdotally true to me, but is there actually any study to prove this?
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Marking the value of your company to market can make you richer over night. If you have a $10/year income stream, a bank might run a calculation valuing that income stream at $50-$100. If you can instead get investors to value it at $1000 (because it is a "tech company" and deserves an insane valuation), you are a lot richer than you used to be. Even if you lose 90% of your income stream, you are still probably riche…
For the sake of correctness, Bezos is definitely not in a $500M jet. The only jet at that price is owned by a Saudi Prince. Also, the idea that Bezos and people like him never sell stock is just completely wrong. This stuff is public record, you can look it up. Here’s an article that did it already [0]. Which means, yes, Bezos and all the other über rich pay taxes and don’t borrow money to avoid taxes until they die.…
ProPublica did some pretty good investigating reporting showing that no, that idea is not "completely wrong".
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...
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Or maybe it helped OF, because they got to call out Mastercard / Visa and maybe negotiate a better deal out of it?
Since when does Mastercard / Visa care about minor backlash like this and why would they? Most of the hysteria died down pretty quickly, and it's not like people were going to boycott the biggest payment processors by far.
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it's pretty huge COVID hit recently graduated Gen-Z incredibly hard. There's huge groups that are/were unemployed and then there's huge groups who are sexually repressed due to quarantine. Across the whole world, too*. Many can easily make more than min wage, and in certain niches you probably don't even have to be 'conventionally beautiful' (sorry to use this term, but it's important I think) to make a living or sol…
> COVID hit recently graduated Gen-Z incredibly hard. Gen-Z is less sexually active than previous generations. Significantly so. They've been exposed to porn at an earlier age (owing to earlier access to the internet and the ubiquity of pornography online). Porn use was already common among them. The lockdown made things worse, but the status quo was already in place. > There's huge groups that are/were unemployed an…