Yep. Libraries can’t just buy an ebook like they can buy a book. They have to negotiate a contract with the copyright holder to be able to lend them out.

I really don’t think anyone envisioned the way digital distribution would change when the DMCA was written.

But my point isn’t that there’s political will to make a change, but that the judiciary really doesn’t have the capacity to rule any other way than the obvious “you can’t do this”. It would be a completely wild precedent for this case to somehow result in a ruling that it’s fair use based on the actual law and the history of previous rulings.

But there’s a very clear distinction in the law. Libraries are covered under first sale doctrine. You can do effectively what you want with a physical object that contains copyrighted material placed there by the owner.

Digital anything is not covered by the first sale doctrine. Every individual loan is a copy. Every time a “copy” moves between devices is a copy. There is no legal framework for ownership of anything digital. It’s always a license, no matter what permissions that license grants you.

You have to pass new laws to match the digital world. Under the current laws, it’s extremely clear that lending unauthorized digital copies of a physical book is copyright infringement. Wholesale copies of a work aren’t even in the neighborhood of fair use, especially when you’re distributing a bunch of them. DRMing those copies is completely irrelevant legally.

What’s the value of cheap clothes that aren’t even suitable for a single wear?

Seriously.

Yes, there’s an element of complexity that makes it hard to completely avoid bugs. But there’s way more arbitrary complexity that doesn’t serve a purpose and unnecessary dependencies that create more problems than they solve causing issues than there is just the inherent difficulty of what software actually needs to do.

Also, maybe just don’t copy paste code from 20 different tracking tools wherever they tell you to.

Edit: also cloud everything. The amount of overhead it takes to put 100 million users in the cloud when there’s nothing they need that can’t be done locally is stupid as hell.

The number of the games on this list that are in my library and I haven’t played…

I’m not into the subscription library thing (though I do have PS+ premium, because it was a reasonably cheap upgrade from the base package on Black Friday when I caved and bought a subscription), but I can see how some people find value in the subscription library that’s included.

That said, fuck Luna specifically, because I tried the “included with prime” version with one of the legends of heroes games, got moderately hooked, and it will only let you export the saves when they remove the game from the paid library. So even your saves are held hostage to a paid subscription.

If we’re talking “free” devices with some commitment, I’m OK with some limitation until the terms are met.

The second you charge a dollar for it, it should be unconditionally illegal to have it carrier locked the day they walk out of the store. 60 days isn’t good enough.

You shouldn’t be buying anything from there.

Those cheap clothes would be overpriced at free.

It’s still massively downgraded from a console. And many faster twitch games are straight up unplayable in the absolute best case scenario.

Yes there are really bad products and their QC is horrible. I’ll say the same for Aliexpress, Taobao, Amazon, Walmart and Bestbuy.

There’s a huge difference between some 5/10 products at Walmart and Best Buy and the best case being a 5/10 product with the majority being 2/10 and some being actually dangerous like Temu.

They’re not remotely similar.

Hey, they also decided to take screenshots of everything you do every 2 seconds and put them in an unsecured database. That might work.

It’s too bad conspiracy theorists bullied them into half assed encryption and allowing people to turn it off until next time Microsoft reverts it.

They can identify new accounts with the same behavior patterns easily enough if they really want to. Amazon can absolutely shut them down.

I meant they have no recourse against Amazon refusing to host them.

They can ban them for TOS violations. Good luck suing.

There is no alternative that they could choose.

RCS is absolute horseshit unless you send it to Google, which is absolutely unacceptable.

People discuss tech companies, and when a company keeps jacking up its price while making the experience worse for an offering that would be a ripoff at half its original price, people are going to be annoyed.

Especially with the trend of not being able to just buy shows any more.

I did. A long time ago.

People are allowed to recognize a dogshit excuse for a product is a bad product.

I don’t care about the why. It was worth it.

Now it’s not worth it.

That’s not “being bad at a game”. That’s “worse than a 5 year old”.

And the source of that video absolutely thought they were qualified to complain about difficulty.

I absolutely install stuff that doesn’t have a signature verified by Apple, but you should be damn sure you know what you’re installing before bypassing that security.