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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The real problem, as I see it, is that P+ has gone out of their way not only to gather all that is Trek under their umbrella, but they’ve gone out of their way to ensure their walled garden is the only place it’s found.

Look to file sharing sites and USENET, where the DMCA has been wielded with gay abandon to decimate access to pirated content. It’s impossible to find full episodes on USENET any more and torrent sites likewise.

What brought ST back in the first place, was syndication. It was cheap enough, every podunk broadcast station could afford to air it, thus creating legions of new fans. This is the exact opposite of what’s happening today.

Sadly, if P+ loses enough to start cancelling production of new content, they’d still be sitting on all the copyrighted IP and something tells me they’d try to squeeze every farthing possible out it via licensing before letting another production company touch it.

At this point, I’m buying DVD box sets, ripping them to my raided NAS, reselling them and saying “Yuck fu!” to the controlling millionaires at Paramount.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I’d settle for a good, consistent source for subtitles, let alone audio. The DMCA is a plague on fan cleared content. :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And therein lies my main beef with mine; the adjustable carb doesn’t work for shit, compared to manual, digit delivered airflow of my others (yeah, have five, almost bought a 2023 last night).

Guess it’s time for disassembly and inspection, which is disappointing, since the others “just worked” outta the box.

 

Seriously, I have an ancient HydroVong, 3Ms from different years and finally splurged on the Omni. I fully expected cosmic levels of performance from that puppy…& so far it feels like the weakest link. Hydro and 2019M hit stronger. Anyway, just had to ask. Cheers and happy

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Have to agree with others that this looks like an episode of FanboysGoneWild, but there are reasons to question, if not outright ceasing to use Brave and they center around their CEO, Brendan Eich. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-eich-covid-19.html

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Look no further than Hollywood studios for a primer in creative accounting, they’ve kept tens millions for themselves over decades.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AKA: Fuck facts, sue them into silence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Apologies, thank you for making an exception.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Takes one to know one.

 

Looking for a link or email, since it occurred to me that being able to filter for POSTS, in communities and by users, could alleviate a lot of tapping on mobile to find active members of both.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ugh. I plead insufficient caffeine and a memory like a sieve, thanks for the correction.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Two words sum up “why”: Reality Winter.