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Why is it legal to buy and sell used books/discs but illegal to buy and sell used digital files?
  • There's a few things about this

    1. Many times you don't own the digital good, you subscribe to it. No I'm not joking, that's why services can usually take it away at any time. You normally own "a licence to play it on a single PC" or similar.
    2. This isnt apples to oranges per se. Selling digital goods is fine, it's copying it. Similar to how photocopying a book and selling it would not be okay.
    3. It's important to note there is a narrative push by companies too. They spend lots of money putting videos on every DVD saying "downloading is stealing" because if society thinks piracy and stealing is the same, it helps them litigate and make more money.
    4. Your idea of a lost sale is a hard one, from a media company point of view, it's about making money. So if you can make people believe "a download is a lost sale" or "sharing a digital file is a lot sale" etc, then you can use that to sue individuals, isps, sharing sites, search engines etc and make more and more money while also having more power over your product.
  • fucking jobs
  • Lol I did not expect to see fucking Whyalla on here. Do a beachey! (They literally drive to the beach and back home LOL).

    I always recommend connected airline when going through Alice/Whyalla because a fuck load of flights have been removed (rex?) and the Alice run was one of the typical ones Qantas allegedly was selling tickets for when no flight existed (and they'd swap you onto another one).

  • Brad Pitt in a chicken suit and rating friends: jobseekers believed ‘condescending’ courses required to get payments
  • Was in Centrelink, the courses are typically "how to write a resume" or "how to do a job search", typically something quite generic and usually simple as it needs to cover all walks in life.

    You typically aren't told that you can sometimes apply for actual courses because it seems like their goal/kpi is based on getting any job asap not on you studying for the next 6 months.

  • Does anyone else get the feeling the pronouns option was just bait?
  • Honestly I feel like that's probably just to save cost from getting multiple takes of the same audio. Make it generic where possible.

    But I do feel the pronoun is similar to my character design. Something I chose at the beginning of the game, and hardly noticed ever again.

  • i still cant get over how PG the Astral Lounge is.
  • I thought it was hilarious to be honest. The game spent so long telling me about how anything goes in Neon, and how it's such a crazy place and people can do anything like some party planet. And astral lounge to be the Pinacle of that party planet full of possible debauchery.

    I legit took my time before going there for an interesting crazy reveal.

    And it's just some random place with neon signs and a club that is less risque then walking down the street.

    !I couldn't believe Todd got me again!<

  • Is blocking 3rd party scripts and frames worth the hassle?
  • End of the day it kind of comes down to you. We're typically trying to choose between privacy and functionality to get a good balance. But many companies have realised that they can wear you down if they try.

    Think of the cookies law, it's meant to make sure you can easily stop websites from using cookies to track you if that is your decision. Instead companies make it so toxic and hard that most people just click accept.

    For me, I'm even more likely to use blocks on websites that try to get around it, because I thinkt they deserve revenue even less. But for you it might make a world of difference to just be able to open up a page without hassle and be less annoying then an actual ad.

  • Sydney Metro: From North Sydney to Barangaroo in under three minutes
  • Sort of, the metro line started with Epping to Chatswood (that's how I see it anyway) which to be fair is still fairly rich. You're right that north Sydney to brangaroo are like the rich rich area.

    There is more lines coming though, one from Westmead (west) to the city, and another way further west (st Mary's) to the new airport line.

    You're right though, that west doesn't always get the best. And as someone who used to work city to Chatswood the train was typically better and less issues then when I worked out west (Parra).

  • Elon Musk vows ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers flee X over antisemitism
  • Eh you spend your whole life getting away with anything because you have the money, you end up starting to believe your own bullshit.

    One of the reasons so many people are rich is because they make money off the smart or the hard working. You never do the work yourself because you legitimately aren't the best person for the job.

    I think Elon bought in too much during the wave of "I'm a tech genius who put a car in space, make electric cars and spaceships" and I think he actually believes he did that instead of the countless and thankless hours of all the real professionals.

    The problem with this thinking, is now he feels like he ^needs to do something. Just like that micromanaging boss who doesn't help at all and just spouts random nonsense thinking it will magically make it go faster. But instead he's just self sabotaging the process.

    This is what happens when you start to believe your own bullshit. If he was smart, he should walk away and let the professionals handle it.

  • Starfield's new PC patch delivers the game we should have had at launch - Eurogamer
  • You see this issue when one of your core game loop isn't enjoyable. It happens a lot in games, and you notice it if a game gives you and item or ability to play the game less.

    This can be okay if this item comes in just as that loop gets boring (like you unlock special flash grab drives part way through the game). But if they let you fast travel from the beginning the likely case is that they found the whole space travel boring and they ended up providing a way around it.

    Which leaves people asking "why'd you bother adding it in there"

  • Younger users of Lemmy: Did you ever love a game that you just really sucked at?
  • Whoooaa talking about the NES for me it was always "Castlevania" and "legends of Zelda II", gawd damn they were so difficult when I was a child.

    Tbf you didn't say video game :p so basketball was another, used to think I was so Kool playing it. But dayumn did I suck at it.

    Current day would probably be call of duty, I always think I'm gonna slay, then I get killed an call it bullshit >!but I know it's not bullshit, it was me!<

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