Alternative title: New York Millennial amazed by common outdoor machinery.

Being an ER nurse, I cannot begin to tell you how many horror stories we get coming in due to “alternative medicine.” Candle wax in the ear being the most innocuous, down to “children dying of preventable diseases because parents believed in herbal care.”

Oof. We will agree to disagree on this one, haha. There are call-outs, and there is “Here is every reskinned plot beat from ANH, with a free Cantina scene and new Death Star!”

A group of Australian bricklayers found a clever to way to work smarter, not harder goof off

Ikea’s first settlement offer was a coupon for a Smüshï wardrobe and customer’s choice of bunk beds: Haangam or Pankakes.

I take it the Krusha line didn’t go too well?

I think the more appropriate question here is....why do people still insist in filming in portrait mode?

I had a friend who bought a Disney movie on her laptop to watch while waiting during a layover at some airport. She only finished half the movie before her flight boarded. Once she got home, she wanted to finish watching the movie on her TV, but couldn’t because it was unrecognized hardware. After fucking around for…

I’ve been saying for years that if the studios and distributors developed a platform like Steam for TV and movies they would be laughing all the way to the bank.

Except that a study commissioned by the Swiss government in 2012 found no correlation (much less causation) between filesharing activity and the amount of money spent on media. Which is why filesharing for personal use has been legal in Switzerland for some time now. It’s almost as if the claims of media conglomerates…

Stop price fixing.

In a free market, you wouldn’t need to legislate against exclusivity deals, because it would be a trade off. You give up some of your potential customer base in exchange for concessions of some variety from the party you’re striking a deal with.

Though book publishers are much more reasonable - TV and Video publishers don’t deserve an ounce of respect. The biggest issue is they do not respect capitalism.

The Industry (RIAA, MPAA, IFPI, etc.) have only two things to do if they want to reduce piracy. Make it available and make it affordable. But it’s far more profitable to sue anonymous people for imaginary lost profits, for now.

I like how you put yourself in front of the author. I bet the split is also in your favour.

Boy, you guys must really hate libraries because that right there is a torrent IRL because I buy nothing and consume all that content; books, music, movies, etc. for free.

I’m much more receptive to paying the content creators, authors, artists, whatever, than I am to paying the publisher. After what the publishing industry did to Amazon (and got their asses handed to them in court over it) I do not care if the publishers see a single penny.

Wake up and smell the roses - not everyone lives in a country where the content IS AVAILABLE.

Also the reason if it wasn’t free there would never have been a sale in the first place doesn’t work. If that was true then they would have never downloaded the book for free in the first place either. If you download it, it means you want it. And that means a lost sale.

Regaining trust is a hard and long process. Be it books, blurays or games, publishers should have sold digital content for a fraction of the price. Digital = no manufacturing, no shipping, no handling. Instead they went with “it should be worth as much as the hard copy”, and still do!