Sounds like they need a union.
I personally don't have too much of an issue for paying for piracy. It's money I would pay to Netflix if their catalog was decent.
Servers cost money.
If anything, these assholes streaming companies should see people paying for pirated content and say, "We should do better" instead of "ThEy ArE sTeAlInG oUr CoNtEnT!"
Edit: I looked up Real Debrid. Their website is sketchy. What exactly is it?
The problem for MAGAs is that they want public executions for their enemies.
If anyone deserves the death penalty it's Trump. We have proof he sowed sedition and conspired to start an insurrection.
The fact that he's not in a supermax prison is a perversion of justice.
tbf, there are alternatives to torrenting now. I usually recommend fmovies, sudo-lol, or other streaming websites because the barrier to entry for those sites is just knowing the URL and having ublock origin.
I agree with you though that today's young adults are not as technologically inclined as young adults of the early 2000s where torrenting was rampant. But everyone understands a website.
Torrenting is hard compared to a visiting a website. Not only do you have to vet each torrent, you have to download a second piece of software (torrent client) to make sure it works, all the while making sure your router is set up correctly. And even if they set all this up correctly, they'll get a letter/email saying that they downloaded a file illegally since they didn't use a VPN. That will scare a novice user and stop torrenting.
I think it's important to note the difference between "make a living to keep things going" vs. "I want to make 'fuck you' money."
I have no problem with people who make a good product and seek donations or sell their product at a reasonable price.
Hell, take uBlock Origin. I'd easily pay $10 / month for this but they do not want money. So I do what they request and donate to the people who make the filters.
This is the first year in perhaps a decade I won't be giving to the Mozilla Foundation because they are enshittifying their product. I wrote to them and told them why I won't be donating. I don't know if it will make a difference but I'm keeping an eye on them over the next year.
The Republicans have been so focused on grabbing power for themselves that they can't even figure out who should have power when it has to be centralized.
Please tell me you're not a writer for this coming season of Orange Turd in the White House.
Because I couldn't take the stress from the last season.
Broken clock and all that.
Though I don't think Trump will official act him. He's far too rich. Trump knows where his bread is buttered and isn't going to risk Musk's ire.
Trump needs Musk far more than Musk needs him
It is. I'm sure it's changed since it's gone all Google/AI. I volunteered before all that. It was basically a PowerPoint presentation that was projected onto screens in a large conference room.
It's a bit sweet seeing people in military uniforms talking to kids about Santa and where he is. Some of the people would chat with the kids, asking them what they wanted for Christmas.
It's especially fun when other government agencies get in on it. I believe during one of Obama's years, he held a press conference and he was asked about something to do with drones and how Santa would be protected or something like that. And he talked about how F-18s would rendezvous with Santa at the Canada-US border and escort him safely.
I'm too lazy to look it up but it got a lot of chuckles. Even the FAA got involved and issued press releases about how Santa was cleared to use the military air corridors to ensure speedy delivery.
Dustin (SmarterEveryDay) has weird energy and not in a good way. It comes off as a little creepy.
I know he and Diana met at some YouTube function and have done collaborations. Even though I know their friends IRL, it was still a bit creepy to me that he went to visit her while she had long COVID right after she got married.
I will say that she didn't show any red flags for me until after she did the hydrogen cars series. I know creators have to get paid but still...it was like when Aubrey Plaza took Dairy Farmers money and did a commercial for milk.
Very off brand for both of them and lost a whole lot of respect when they did it.
Fwiw, the people who track Santa volunteer. Not only that, there are corporate sponsors that help fund the fuel and other costs.
Source: I did NORAD duty one year.
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