The whole idea of copyright is a granting a state backed monopoly which is the antithesis of a free market as I understand it.
The whole idea of copyright is a granting a state backed monopoly which is the antithesis of a free market as I understand it.
Rocky now is what Centos used to be, a downstream rebuild of Redhat Enterprise. Cento Stream is now a rolling release and is pretty much RHEL unstable.
If you want to accomplish a noble cause like preservation I don’t think it’s disingenuous to also satisfy some personal desires along the way. Easier to get people on board to do it if you do.
Downloading has never been stealing to be fair, that has always been emotive framing for copyright supporting propaganda.
People can run a self hosted search engine/indexer with bitmagnet, how are they going to be taken down?
I felt the /s was implied but clearly enough people actually believe that linux is only for people who master arcane command lines that it could be taken as a genuine belief.
Finally linux will have parity in useability with windows.
Doesn’t Anna’s Archive mirror libgen amongst other things?
Maximising their return on investment presumably figuring that the increased fee will bring in more money despite some customers cancelling.
You are right my argument was predicated on the price rise being justified by piracy not the cause of it. If they don’t like ESPNs pricing model can’t they license their content elsewhere?
Yeah, that isn’t how economics work, they increased the price because they believe it will be a more profitable price point. I guess they could argue they lost the price sensitive customers to piracy and are just giving up on that segment and focusing on the people who just pay whatever?
If you are going to worry about archival then when reencode it at all? Just remux the content from the dvd into a suitable container and be done with it.