They very nearly beat piracy when there was basically only one streaming service, Netflix, and everything was on it.
Music piracy used to be the biggest thing and now no one pirates music anymore since there are one or two streaming services with essentially 100% of all the music available
Make going legit easier than piracy and piracy goes away
But unfortunately for the studios everyone wanted to get their own piece of the streaming revenues and fragmented the market. In a lot of ways it’s still better than the old cable tv system (everything on demand, no or at least fewer ads, higher quality programming) but the sheer amount of services someone needs in order to be able to watch everything (and even then it’s not 100%) is really turning people off.
If they’d all stuck with Netflix or whatever and every studio got on board there’d be basically no piracy now
Just a heads up, I’m not an apple user, it never clicked with me but this might be the best spot to get an answer for my specific use case. What I do like was their old 3.5 mm jack earphones, but the playback controls never worked right on my android phone, probably because of the wiring layout or some DRM screwery. I’ve...
I would love the child of a Surfacebook with a Framework laptop; or A bare keyboard attached to a screen, that I could plug my phone (possibly running Phosh) and use it as a hardware for a laptop experience
Changed to title to the one used in the article since it is less click-bait-y. Useful article that goes through some of the misinformation about the voting process
Can someone explain to me, a non-Australian, why the hell your ballot asks people to write yes or no?? Why not have two boxes, one that says “yes” and one that says “no” and have people make a mark in the box they want? Then all this nonsense about ticks and crosses wouldn’t matter. If someone marked both boxes their ballot would be invalidated. Easy peasy
The demons are attracted to doorways, passages between spaces, worlds, and realms. And printers are the ultimate doorway: a portal through which ideas and concepts can leave the software realm and enter the physical
I actually had a concept for a fantasy world, where magicians craft spells much the same way software devs do. So you make your spell and publish it to the ether, and then anyone can invoke it using the magic word (package name), assuming the have the right dependencies available (eye of newt or whatever). But spells might have bugs. So if you used eye of red newt while the spell smith built it with the expectation you had eye of blue newt you might get unintended consequences
Anyone else notice this? I couldn’t find any other info online apart from a Reddit post about two people reporting their AirTags no longer working after updating to iOS 17, so I wanted to post here for visibility and seek advice....
He brought it up with Modi in private in India before he left. Explains why the mood of the public meeting was so grumpy
Mr Trudeau said in parliament on Monday that he had raised the issue of Mr Najjar’s killing with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the recent G20 summit in Delhi.
How exactly are Saudi Arabia and Iran going to be in an alliance with each other? Don’t they hate each other? They only just reestablished diplomatic relations of any kind after having none for seven years
Yeah saying Apple is anti-privacy is like… what? Compared to who? Apple is consistently fighting against meta and google (and governments) in favour of user privacy
Beer prices could soon go up due to ‘beer tax.’ What to know (globalnews.ca)
A hike in a 'beer tax' that could make brews more expensive for Canadians is again being considered by Ottawa after a delay earlier in the year....
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x10 "Old Friends, New Planets"
LoglineTop Secret, again. Edit: well, this was certainly worth waiting for: Mariner faces her past in the season four finale....
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New EarPods question
Just a heads up, I’m not an apple user, it never clicked with me but this might be the best spot to get an answer for my specific use case. What I do like was their old 3.5 mm jack earphones, but the playback controls never worked right on my android phone, probably because of the wiring layout or some DRM screwery. I’ve...
What is the device you want, but that does not exist?
I would love the child of a Surfacebook with a Framework laptop; or A bare keyboard attached to a screen, that I could plug my phone (possibly running Phosh) and use it as a hardware for a laptop experience
Why you shouldn't write your name on your referendum ballot paper (www.abc.net.au)
Changed to title to the one used in the article since it is less click-bait-y. Useful article that goes through some of the misinformation about the voting process
She speaks from the fart (lemmy.ml)
Alberta government wants to leave CPP (www.cbc.ca)
I swear I didn’t change anything (thumbsnap.com)
You kids would not remember. (lemmy.world)
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Support for 3rd party AirTags dropped in iOS 17
Anyone else notice this? I couldn’t find any other info online apart from a Reddit post about two people reporting their AirTags no longer working after updating to iOS 17, so I wanted to post here for visibility and seek advice....
India could be behind killing of Canadian Sikh - Trudeau (www.bbc.co.uk)
English Language Problems (lemmy.ca)
Does Tropic Thunder have the best closing credits scene? (youtu.be)
Visualizing the upcoming BRICS expansion. (www.visualcapitalist.com)
Source: visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-brics-expans…
Recommendations of non-Apple products with similar longevity?
EDIT: Getting a ton of great responses thanks everyone
A mother croc and her baby (lemmy.world)
'Dad, people are sending me pictures of bears': Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke 'wasn't ready' for the bear sex scene to go so viral (www.pcgamer.com)
When your son's friends start sending him bear pics, you know you made a splash.