Samsung did have a major problem early last year, but it seems to be limited to a run of products with a specific firmware.

I’m just waiting for that glorious day when I can, in fact, download a car.

Just started S1E1 to check, and the credits on Netflix are indeed updated.

Sony deleting purchased items from a person’s library?

Shocker.

If you know the details, put the year in the search. “c.h.u.d. 1984” gets six results.

Internet Archive has tons of relevant magazines. This Old House, ShopNotes, etc.

Plex desperately wants to be more then just a self-hosted library solution, as that’s often (though not exclusively) associated with piracy. They also have a free streaming service, similar to Tubi and Pluto, that can integrate with your own library.

I like my Roku, but it would be much more annoying without a pihole to block the ads.

Big labels have a direct line to YouTube via ContentID. Indie artists have to do it the hard way.

You may also be interested in “The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy”

https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4662/The-End-of-OwnershipPersonal-Property-in-the

Somewhat annoying that each chapter is a separate download, but it’s all free.

Would it even require massive changes? The framework is already built for music. The idea behind compulsory licensing is that any radio station can play any music, and the royalty rates due to the copyright holder are set in advance. The music industry fought tooth and nail to prevent streaming sites from getting access to their content, but it’s now their biggest revenue source.

A world where Netflix, Disney, Paramount, Max, and all the others could use each others’ (and literally all) content and pay for every stream would practically kill video piracy almost overnight. Make them all compete on their quality of service, instead of the size of their siloed library. And in the end, both customers and rights-holders would almost certainly be better off.

This was news at the time, but the truth is that they blocked BT traffic from US servers, not worldwide.

If nothing has changed, this is mostly a non-story.

Schrödinger’s Politician

Trump himself was supposed to “drain the swamp” as he’s the only one “strong enough” to do it, but his own DOJ never brought charges against Hillary because they’re corrupt and “woke.” But also, Back the Blue fits in there somewhere.

Their narrative is whatever sounds convenient for the 5 seconds it takes to get to the end of the sentence. There’s no coherent ideology that binds it all together, because it’s so self-contradictory that would be impossible.

Everything old is new again. Time is a flat circle.

Correct. Spez is either a pathological liar, or incomprehensibly stupid. But probably both.