I’m not pro-big media. I’m realistic. Under the current system, the copyright holders have pretty much all the leverage.

Keep telling yourself that. CBS has reported that subscriber numbers have far exceeded expectations, though. It’s the Neflixes of the world that are in trouble; the big media giants will end up ruling streaming.

Wow!  Maybe it’s not so strange after all!

Well obviously you are my soulmate, Internet Stranger.  :D

When I eat a sandwich, I have to eat the crust all around before I get to the main sandwich part.  In fact, generally speaking when I eat, I go from the part I like the least to the part I like the most.  

Yeah, Rio was all up in the MP3 business for quite some time.

Agreed, although I am less sanguine about their “KARS-4-KIDS” marketing strategy.

It’s cool that it works well, because the ones I used to get back in the day were shit.  No, they aspired to be shit.  They were Shit Lite.

Ah yes, that awkward 5-year period where tape decks weren’t standard anymore, but aux and bluetooth were not yet standard...

My first MP3 player wasn’t a fixed-storage one; it was the Rio Volt, which was the first portable CD player to play MP3 files. I burned a ton of MP3 CDs for it and it went everywhere.

So the answer is, no, you don’t have any evidence for your assertions.

Do you have evidence for any of this, or did you just pull it all out of your ass?  Your physics take, for one thing, is spectacularly wrong.

“KEY IS IN THE IGNITION!”

Because generally to have a real chance at any of the larger categories requires a pretty expensive media campaign.

Hot take, bro. You should go talk to the people still pissed they can’t watch Star Trek: Picard without subscribing to CBS All Access. I’m sure you’ll have a lot of common ground.

And TWX is still an S&P500 company.

Absolutely!

Native of the Chicago suburbs here; can confirm.  NO surprise that this happened in fucking Naperville.

You get a star just for Emily Litella

The first new car I can remember my parents buying was a 1977 Ford Granada with the 302.  Saddle brown 4-door.  The idea that anyone ever mistook these for a Merc is...well, I can’t think of a truly good adjective.  It’d be like mistaking an old, squishy tomato for a skyscraper.