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Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by tristor »

sandcat_ wrote: post #121
mikestew wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course the reason SD were pushed away (at least for Apple) was to offer cloud backup as the only option with no alternatives. Except that no part of what you claim is true: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/back-up-iphone-iph3ec...

Does anyone actually do this? I’m looking to reduce my reliance on iCloud but I’ve kept my backups there so far as it always seemed onerous to have to plug in and trigger the backup manually. And easy to forget, too.

> Does anyone actually do this?

Yep. I've been using an iPhone since 2012, so about 14 years. I do a local backup to my Macbook and then perform upgrades via USB, I don't do over the air upgrades. I also don't sync my photo albums into iCloud. I do have iCloud backups enabled also. It's not even a concern about privacy, per se, it's a question of whether or not I actually control my data if its not in my possession. More copies is good for resiliency.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by hart_russell »

not_a_bot_4sho wrote: post #102
someonebaggy wrote: post #71

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The Pirate Bay is considered one of the worst pirate sites now. Of course, if you can find what you want, then you can, but any piracy community will recommend against it due to nonexistent moderation (eg. against viruses), poor navigation, and lack of uploads due to them not issuing new uploader accounts for several years now.

> The Pirate Bay is considered one of the worst pirate sites now I'm curious. What are the best sites nowadays? Still torrents, right? I used to be in the know but switched to legit things a while back so I wouldn't have to explain how dad is getting Bluey episodes.

IPT is far and away the best torrent tracker, but it's private and you need an invite (or pay a few bucks)

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by PUSH_AX »

crote wrote: post #181
PUSH_AX wrote: post #44

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> I'm not hurting artists I guess residuals are a made up thing.

Basically, yeah. A company like Spotify pays fractions of a cent per stream. If you're not a Taylor Swift, residuals are essentially a rounding error. Going to tours, concerts, or signings makes the artist far more money. We've reached a point where Spotify has become nothing more than a well-disguised advertising platform for concerts.

Ok cool, can I cherry pick now? TV actors in expansive TV series' with residuals in their contract. It can be a significant part of their income.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by jMyles »

nullsmack wrote: post #45

We need some kind of modern equivalent to the old proposed Digital Media Consumer's Rights Act but which protects people's rights to digital media they buy. These should never be sold and then taken away with no compensation like this. We need a law that forces companies to treat digital files the same as a physical purchase. They can't take it away and have to allow people to resell and loan out as well. And in case…

Fortunately, we don't need a policy solution or to convince already-bought-and-paid-for-lawmakers to side with justice over profits.

Solutions for liberating media of all kinds, from P2P file sharing to DRM-stripping, have roundly and soundly outpaced all this other corporate knowledge control nonsense at every turn since the invention of the printing press.

All we need to do is make the simple choice to stop recognizing ownership of ideas (and thus, bytes) as a conceptually coherent phenomenon, and carry on.

I'm a full-time professional bluegrass musician, and like most of my peers, I release all of my material DRM-free. I invite you to get my new record from IPFS or Bit Torrent, and to pin/seed/encourage your friends to steal it also:

https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/Release:QmUWtV7fG1K9pM5TQSf5c38v...

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by Schiendelman »

pipes wrote: post #158
hodgehog11 wrote: post #110

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Not sure if you know this, but this is literally the Stop Killing Games movement. Despite the recent apparent setback as reported in the news, the organisers are in talks with EU MPs that are writing sweeping legislation to address this sort of thing across all digital mediums. You only need legislation like this to hold in one major market to make a big difference.

I think this is going to have unintended consequences if it goes through: funding game development is a very very high risk investment. Adding this type of regulation adds further cost and complication, which makes it an even less attractive investment. Which will result in less monetary and creative risk taken. Even just open sourcing part of project is expensive. Legal and technical.

I thought this was more "let people run the code themselves if they can figure it out" not "open sourcing". There's no appetite to force a company that reuses and improves their game engine on every new title to open source it, even an older version.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by bigfishrunning »

sandcat_ wrote: post #121
mikestew wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course the reason SD were pushed away (at least for Apple) was to offer cloud backup as the only option with no alternatives. Except that no part of what you claim is true: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/back-up-iphone-iph3ec...

Does anyone actually do this? I’m looking to reduce my reliance on iCloud but I’ve kept my backups there so far as it always seemed onerous to have to plug in and trigger the backup manually. And easy to forget, too.

I regularly back up the photos on my phone (which is admittedly not an iphone, but also does not have a microsd slot) to a local file server in my house. I don't need a microsd slot to control my data.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by Ferret7446 »

ryandrake wrote: post #177
pipes wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is going to have unintended consequences if it goes through: funding game development is a very very high risk investment. Adding this type of regulation adds further cost and complication, which makes it an even less attractive investment. Which will result in less monetary and creative risk taken. Even just open sourcing part of project is expensive. Legal and technical.

This argument is always pretty weak. All regulation adds cost and complication for companies. If that alone was a good reason to not add regulation, then taken to the logical conclusion, there should be no regulation on companies. Regulation needs to be seen as a trade-off, for example: We get better behaving companies, and the cost is less risk taken. Then the question becomes "is the benefit worth the cost?"

The argument should be stronger since the vast majority of regulation is as you say, the cost is not worth the benefit.

All regulation by default is anticompetitive and also comes with the risk of intended consequences, and thus must prove that they provide sufficient benefit. They are "guilty until proven innocent".

e.g., rather than trying to "just do something" about games, maybe we should revisit copyright law as a whole, instead of slapping a bandaid on a festering wound caused by the first bandaid

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Post by gilfaethwy »

NoSalt wrote: post #15

Ever since Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc. started offering "free" online storage for photos, ever since streaming started to be popular, I have ALWAYS extolled the virtues of µSD card slots in phones and owning your own media (i.e., purchasing CDs and DVDs). Many people would give me a hard time about this, calling me a Luddite, but I will never lose access to my photos, music, or movies ... unless it is the end of t…

Nothing really wrong with being a Luddite. The Luddites weren't anti-technology or anti-progress. Rather, they opposed deployment of technology in the workplace which they believed would reduce their pay, reduce the quality of their output, and make it easier to exploit vulnerable people such as children. They were, basically, doing the same thing as software engineers who argue that AI mandates are making their lives worse and making the quality of their employers' software worse.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by majesticmerc »

MarcScott wrote: post #180
dimitri-vs wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1337x

- Type the name of the media you are after into the search bar. - Click search. - Close the tab tab that opens to opera.com - Click search again - Close the starfleetacommand.com tab - Click search again - Close the jerkmaate.net tab - Find your media. - Click the magnet link - Close the livetruematch.com tab The site is garbage.

Ublock Origin (at least on Firefox, RIP Chromium users) makes all these problems go away instantly.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by Volundr »

Schiendelman wrote: post #195
pipes wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is going to have unintended consequences if it goes through: funding game development is a very very high risk investment. Adding this type of regulation adds further cost and complication, which makes it an even less attractive investment. Which will result in less monetary and creative risk taken. Even just open sourcing part of project is expensive. Legal and technical.

I thought this was more "let people run the code themselves if they can figure it out" not "open sourcing". There's no appetite to force a company that reuses and improves their game engine on every new title to open source it, even an older version.

That alone would be an improvement from the status quo, but the SKG movement does go one stop further in wanting publishers to be required to leave the game in a working (local) state of they design it to be dependent on central services they then shut down.

This could be as easy as releasing the tools they used for development when developing the game.

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