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Would be way more interest to me to know the distribution of people giving away their money. I personally spend about $20 a month on Twitch, I wonder in each part of the bell curve I am, and if it is a bell curve at all.
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Amazon has even more money to throw at studios than Epic, so they can just force themselves into it.
So does Microsoft, but Xbox has been in decline since after Xbox 360
Like I haven't touched my Xbox One in years, but I'm still giving them $10/month for Xbox Game Pass for my PC.
"In its latest financial results, Microsoft announced that the gaming division revenue was up 50% year-on-year, boasting huge $3.53 billion earnings over the past 12 months. The vast majority of that income stems from Xbox hardware (largely the launch of the Xbox Series X/S), which is up 232%."
https://www.vg247.com/xbox-revenue-hardware-game-pass-boost-...
Okay, I guess hardware is still big for them. Huh.
Hi ya'll, I have a question. My wife and I can't wrap our brains around the fact that payment info was leaked alongside source code . Any theories how this happened? Former pentester btw. I saw a lot of interesting things during my time, but I can't recall seeing a payment database next to a source code repo. Did their s3 bucket get popped or something? Even if their github enterprise got popped, that doesn't explain…
My guess is it was an disgruntled employee who took a copy of all this data.
Here's another link https://sizeof.cat/post/twitch-leaks/ Looks real to me based on the archive I managed to download so far
Don't open this link if you are in the middle of having a meal. Paste it to a separate tab, then it works.
Link to the leak: https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/83691438 Top 10k Streamers by Revenue: https://pastebin.com/LjmaPNam Contains the following data points: 'ad_share_gross', 'sub_share_gross', 'bits_share_gross', 'bits_developer_share_gross', 'bits_extension_share_gross', 'prime_sub_share_gross', 'bit_share_ad_gross', 'fuel_rev_gross', 'bb_rev_gross' (TTS donations, 3rd party revenue like OnlyFans, Patreon, Amazo…
The revenue in that pastebin have been double counted. The corrected data is here: https://pastebin.com/LjmaPNam
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I believe so, and this is why the AGPL was created: > The GNU General Public License permits making a modified version and letting the public access it on a server without ever releasing its source code to the public. > The GNU Affero General Public License is designed specifically to ensure that, in such cases, the modified source code becomes available to the community. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html
So in theory, FAANG could make billions of a random person's GPL'd code and they'd never know.
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That's a pretty harsh moral/value judgment on how someone chooses to spend their entertainment money. What about comedy clubs? If I buy a ticket to see Dave Chappelle, who is clearly wealthy, am I sucker too? What about paying cover at my local bar because a local band is playing that night? What about buying tickets to a baseball game, to see a bunch of millionaires play a game for a few hours? You are making it see…
Sorry, I didn't mean that in a derogatory way. I just meant twitch users pay for the sake of giving money to their favorite streamers rather than paying for a product. Strip clubs are the first example that came to my mind, bands or comics also stand. My point was that OP's argument about comparing twitch to movies doesn't make sense because paying for a movie is no different than paying for groceries.
There are three things you need to survive: food, shelter, and love/community.
Entertainment can sometimes provide the last one (love/community) but for the most part it's fulfilling a need for distraction and/or curiosity.
This is somewhat hilarious. Just 5 days ago I was complaining about Twitch’s new "Only verified users" setting which requires me to give them my phone number. One of the reasons I said I’ll not do that was "hacks, leaks". And now this. Sure, I’ll give you my phone number to add TOTP (Why even?) after I’ve just been shown how secure that data is.
From another site a user commented that it might have proprietary modifications to ffmpeg which is LGPL/GPL (I think?). Would a leak be considered to be distribution, could others legally take these modifications and merge them into the upstream project? I imagine other free software might have modifications too.
The IP issues with the leak are interesting. There's got to be some Stack Overflow copy/pastes, perhaps some variable name changed license violating code, and I wonder if patent trolls or even rightful patent owners can now sue based on how backend code works in a way where they had no way to sue if they didn't know how it worked from interacting with a frontend.
What's the difference?
But seriously, if it takes trolling through the code to determine that Twitch's math violated their special way of doing math that no one else should get to use, it's just more evidence that software patents aren't helping protect or encourage innovation (else the violation would have been apparent from using the service). It would instead clearly be a "hah, gotcha, turns out we patented the linked-list-inside-a-hashmap construction you've got going on here, pay up! Only we can put the Legos together in that way!"