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Yeah… not always. Especially older stuff that would need to be rescanned from film.

I just sent it to the two friends that are always whining for me to grab them a CAM :-)

I just meant someone could uprez an old 1080p transfer themselves ;-) Hopefully there’s a bit more going on with these releases, extra pixels aren’t everything… but I’m one of the folks that believes it should be a new scan, not just some fancy uprezing algorithm.

My parents always warned me that sitting to close to the TV would rot my brain :-)

Nice little list of piracy sites that Hollywood is having a hard time shutting down at the end of the article ;-)

Gotta’ machine gun them out before people realize they can make their own 4K version at home now ;-)

Fair point. In my defense I hit a paywall and just kind of gave up, did a bit of assuming there 😅

Ooooo… okay, somehow I was getting like a “did you really have to gender the example?“ vibe… so hopefully that explains my confusion/response.

For sure. And ultimately they gave credit where it was due, which is nice but it was a bit jarring. I think that means the filmmakers did their job well and crafted a character I could identify with.

Um… I don’t think it matters to me what the characters gender was, but it seemed like the least I could do since I wasn’t going to go back and look up the characters name.

I think you’re reading something into my comment I don’t intend? Strictly referring to a character Ulana Khomyuk from the HBO miniseries here.

Yeah, I wasn’t going to go and call that case-closed; industry tactics exposed, story at 11:00. It’s a theory and intentional or not (misspellings) I think there’s a definite possibility it’s working as described in some cases.

I like the SaaS theory too, ransomware clearly operates using exactly that model… unfortunately there’s been a few investigations and a lot of it is just the intersection of actual and economic slavery. I suspect there’s some of what you propose as well, why not, right? If we can dream it up somewhere somebody’s probably trying it. But I’d also wager that once you achieve any real proficiency at this kind of low level scam, there’s opportunity in organized computer crime, spearfishing and pretexting scams, operations with more sophisticated planning.

Sounds exactly like the names I would come up with breathing 20% nitrous oxide for a few hours…

Couldn’t hide my disappointment at the end when they were like [strong female character] was created from the stories of over fifty different scientists…