And shit, you mention video game development of all things, where agrressive copyright enforcement has taken the form of DRM and actively taken away from revenue. Look at Denuvo, there are a significant number of players that will stay away from buying a game until Denuvo has been removed. In many cases the…

Except, it isn’t exactly the same. Because you likely have their face somewhere on the screen along with whatever commentary they add to it.

Has there ever been any solid proof that enforcing copyright directly leads to increased revenue for the creators?

It’s wonderful that you and other creators do so without any sort of profit motive, but it’s incredibly presumptuous to apply that modus operandi to other people without their input.

That’s the same argument used when it comes to most forms of piracy, particular video games, with a big difference.

You’re an active participant in playing a videogame. Your experience watching someone play might be vastly different than playing yourself, not to mention pirating certain games renders certain features…

Fayetteville Police Chief Gina Hawkins said in a press conference Sunday that at some point the windshield wiper had been torn off the truck and used to break the windshield, although it is not clear at what point in the altercation this took place…

The first would be who the PR would hurt the most. AB is definitely going to take a huge hit but, like, is that really going to affect him? He should have been canned twice this season already and they kept him and a couple of league sources have already said “he’ll have a place to play next year, if not sooner.”…

Thank you for the reply and the clarification. Let me take this point by point.

The idea the Bucs did him dirty flies in the face of all the evidence.

1. You can be cut for almost anything at anytime in the NFL. The Bucs wouldn’t need to manufacture some controversy to cut AB (and how could they manufacture him storming off the field and leaving the stadium anyways?)

2. AB was on a cheap, 1-year…

It’s quite possible he has a fucked up ankle, and MRIs and the words of named doctors to prove it. If so, release them. You’ve already dropped the names of at least one doctor into this entire mess (who is probably groaning at the thought of being involved in the first place), so what’s stopping AB from releasing the…

I actually was responding specifically to A Olson’s point concerning vitriol against bankers being a left-wing talking point, and how many left-wingers (specifically young ones) no longer have a conception of “bankers” that’s specifically in-line with old anti-Semitic tropes.

That being said, you can’t deny that the…

Truth be told, the popular left-wing conception of what constitutes a “banker” is more likely a hodge-podge of stodgy, WASPy Blue Bloods in Brooks Brothers living in Gilded Age mansions in Newport, and Silicon Valley types in jeans, a t-shirt, and driving a Tesla. Not the least of which because the technological…

My dearly departed best friend was really into things like crypto and the Amero and shit like that around the time we started college in 2009. I was studying political science and economics, and even though I had a powerful enough computer (and the spare student loan money) to drop a few dollars into Bitcoin once it…

The jist of MyKinja’s statement is less the fact that LeBron didn’t go to college, or that having a degree is always postively correlated with an increased level of intelligence, but rather that in this day and age, talented but educationally-lacking people are often put on a pedestal and their words carry a great…

Truth be told, almost anyone who has a significant amount of earnings that come in large chunks/waves that aren’t particularly routine (such as one-off fees and bonuses), will be advised to route them through an S-corp or some other entity in order to stave off taxes.

I know a few people in that category (with most of…

Not for nothing, but it sounds like Dre’s assets are more heavily tied into either hard assets (cars and homes), or assets that can’t be easily sold or transferred (such as his masters, Apple stock that might be locked behind various legal covenants from the Beats purchase, proceeds involving trademarks and copyrights)…

The issue is not just many of those superteams fail, but also that many of the major moves involve players on the tail end of HoF careers.

03-04 Lakers involved a final-season Malone, and GP who only played for another 2 seasons as a backup player (and finally got a ring in 2006 with the Heat). Wilt Chamberlain with…

I live in Florida and work tangentially in politics, and it would take a colossal fuckup by DeSantis to lose.

He’s actually gotten more popular since his election, and there’s been a large influx of Conservatives from states like California and Texas who enjoy the various policies he’s enacted (along with no state and…

I loathed XIII, but I did enjoy XIII-2 a great deal. The trilogy certainly isn’t near the top of my FF-favorite list, but out of the three, I do think XIII-2 would be the most amenable to fans who have heard nothing but horror stories about XIII (which...valid), or have heard nothing about Lightning Returns (which was…

That’s my question.

While flights might be cheap, and plans can be changed, who in the fuck is simply spending money on these flights, chomping at the bit to stage a protest with some fucknut you don’t know whose wearing a thong over his face?

Plus of all the times and places to cause a situation to increase in tension,…