Post #1210782
2023-07-28 01:33 UTC
Replies (22)
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@nickwedig@dice.camp 2023-08-01 12:39
This post has now been shared enough that I'm seeing screenshots of it reshared on Facebook (by people who aren't on Mastodon).
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@bigiain@aus.social 2023-07-28 03:22
@nickwedig@dice.camp Also Hollywood: Let's use this worldwide communication network to download all the words everybody else has ever created, and feed them into our tools to make movies and TV shows without needing writers. Everyone: Hang on, wasn't it you guys that made sure all those words you're using are covered by that same copyright rules you tall us makes downloading your movies illegal? Hollywood: Hollywood: Copyright laws are for _us_, not for _you_!
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@lispi314@mastodon.top 2023-07-28 03:35
@nickwedig@dice.camp Sounds like doing away with the middleman there would be a good idea.
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@FinalOverdrive@kolektiva.social 2023-07-28 03:49
@nickwedig@dice.camp People used to understand this shit.
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@bassplayer@mas.to 2023-07-28 05:53
@nickwedig@dice.camp Too many streaming services and not enough competent writers to go around.
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@finley@transden.lgbt 2023-07-28 06:01
@nickwedig@dice.camp YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A WORKFORCE
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@Xopher@wandering.shop 2023-07-28 06:08
This is the lesson we’re learning from the #SAGAFTRA and #WGA #Strike. Also, Strikes work, goddammit. We need more. From @nickwedig@dice.camp https://dice.camp/users/nickwedig/statuses/110789131676244975
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@fernby@mastodon.sdf.org 2023-07-28 06:22
@nickwedig@dice.camp oh perfect!
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@researchagain@med-mastodon.com 2023-07-28 08:43
@nickwedig@dice.camp Well said! 😅
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@Npars01@mstdn.social 2023-07-28 12:15
@nickwedig@dice.camp What is it called where the workers aren't paid for their labor, the benefits accrue only to a tiny moneyed elite, they orchestrate Civil Wars to keep, scaremonger feverishly about worker uprisings & rebellions, and they convert the law into a vehicle for maintaining that system? Hmm...is it slavery?
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@ecsd@commons.whatiwanttoknow.org 2023-07-28 13:58
@nickwedig@dice.camp
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@mustamakkara@tooting.ch 2023-07-28 14:54
@blogdiva@mastodon.social @rodhilton@mastodon.social @nickwedig@dice.camp Thanks, now I heard it too. :) Good thing that Swiss law allows downloads for private use anyway. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/downloading-and-uploading_what-the-new-swiss-copyright-law-means-for-consumers-of-pirated-online-content/45305402
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@mycotropic@geekdom.social 2023-07-28 15:13
@mmoore@mastodon.social @rodhilton@mastodon.social @nickwedig@dice.camp I have a physical copy of all 3000 movies on my Plex server and I'm okay with doing that, that said this thread is persuasive.
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@alice@marrow.haus 2023-07-28 16:50
@rodhilton@mastodon.social @nickwedig@dice.camp And the argument for "piracy" as preservation has only skyrocketed, as production companies shift their content between streaming providers to maximize profits, giving the shaft to consumers who can't (and aren't) paying subscribers of literally every service. Sure, I haven't been given a perpetual license to X media, but they sure as hell can't stop me. (2TiB+ of YouTube archived so far…)
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@drdrowland@fediscience.org 2023-07-28 15:25
This is my argument for choosing streaming services like adblocked YouTube and others. In a world where ad revenue goes to creators my preferences would change. In a world where streaming subscriptions displace instead of double charge with ads my preferences would change. But the lack of pay for creators has corrupted this system in many ways.
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@LeBonk@wetdry.world 2023-07-28 17:54
@nickwedig@dice.camp It's amazing how willing people are to just take these arguments at face value and not internalize the obvious reality that they literally just want to use the arm of the law to force you to give up your money and your freedoms. That's it.
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@werewolf@meow.social 2023-07-28 20:30
@nickwedig@dice.camp OMG... this is the right wing 'You might still be in poverty, but at least you have a job and you aren't working on your parent's farm' argument they use to justify exploiting workers in China and India! I hadn't seen it framed that way before. Brilliant!
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@Setok@attractive.space 2023-07-28 21:11
@nickwedig@dice.camp Also Hollywood: oh and did we tell you that you can’t buy or rent that movie online that you want to watch. So yeah. The BBC: What a great idea!
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@bot@seal.cafe 2023-07-28 21:22
Yes, that’s how it works.
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@pirate@evil.social 2023-07-29 04:25
@nickwedig@dice.camp Y'k what they say. YOU MIGHT GET VIRUSES IF U STREAM ILLEGALLY. My entire family pirates shows and watches them at abetter quality than we used to while streaming. Not to mention those regional blocks
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@ClintonAnderson@universeodon.com 2023-07-29 11:22
@nickwedig@dice.camp There is no such thing as piracy as long as "purchased" doesn't mean "owned".
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@IronCurtain@mstdn.social 2023-07-30 00:27
@nickwedig@dice.camp I think one of the writers of the Daily show said that about then-president Sumner Redstone: "When you're not paying him, you owe him $350 million. When he's not paying you, _he's not paying you_."