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I recently played through 2 and true colors. I have the lost records game too. I haven’t gotten dual exposure yet because I know if I’m patient enough it will be free

If it were up to me copyright would be nonexistent for non commercial use. Who gives a shit if someone makes a fan project of your precious idea

Commercial use I don’t know but far less than lifetime. Disney has fucked our brains with propaganda here. Creative processes flourish by remixing and making derivative works. That’s literally how Disney got to where they are. Realistically if you can’t make money in the first 10-20 years of release how likely is it that you will ever make money? Should we really stifle artistic freedom for the 0.0001% of creators that make something and take 30 years for it to catch on?

Not to mention that this doesn’t mean your gravy train is cut off. If people buy your book or cd or whatever after 21 years you still make money. We could even make a compromised law that derivative works are okay but as long as you’re alive commercial use of the original work is protected, eg if someone wants to just sell a copy of your book or use your song in an ad you can demand payment or stop them? Although this is stupid because then you get into the pissing match of what defines the boundary of a derivative work

And eternal life of copyright is what has led to us having our current culture in decline media landscape of endless sequels, remakes, milking licenses, and reboots. Why risk a new IP when you own 3000000 “safe bets” you can endlessly recycle bullshit

Like what’s at my local theater right now:

Thunderbolts: milking the marvel IP still

The accountant 2: never heard of the first one but it deserved a sequel, apparently

Minecraft: not a sequel or remake, at least, but cash in license nonsense to print money from kids and nostalgia bait the older zoomers that grew up attached to ipads

Final destination: bloodlines: good thing there’s not already like 8 final destination movies that are progressively shittier

Lilo and stitch: not the original, a live action remake. Fun fact: the writers guild doesn’t cover animated films so when Disney remakes these classic animated movies as live action they can reuse the same story and screw the original writers

Mission impossible: the final reckoning: I bet this isn’t the final reckoning

How to train your dragon: live action remake, probably using the same Disney loophole to fuck over writers

Interestingly they’re also showing a mystery horror movie Plus some others that to be fair seem like original IP: sinners, shadow force, the last rodeo, ballerina

Then a bunch of classics like one flew over the cuckoos nest and raiders of the lost ark

7:4 garbage to original. 64% “we’re out of ideas”.

I miss this show

That’s the most frustrating part. “We” didn’t, 4 uc Berkeley tech bro assholes did and amassed a fucking fortune in the process. They co-opted the scene that they contributed nothing to and flipped it into a VC wet dream, somehow. Nepotism had to be involved to connect them to VC early and shield them from DMCA bullshit; other piracy streaming sites existed but they all survived so long because unlike crunchyroll none were hosted in the us

But yeah there are still great subgroups and typesetters. I refuse to subscribe to crunchyroll or hidive bc of their bullshit. Sometimes I download rips if I really want to see something asap but the subs are trash. It’s almost always worth it to wait a few days/weeks for someone to typeset and for popular series sometimes someone does actually do a proper fansub still (or at least heavily edits the web subs to be a more accurate translation, have OP/ED/signs, etc). GLORYs release of NieR was excellent one from recent memory

Another crunchyroll/sentai gripe: they are purposely worsening the quality of their bluray releases to make them easier to encode at low bitrates. They essentially blur the content and cause sharp details to lose definition so that artifacts won’t be created during the bitrate starved encoding process. This makes no sense since they are encoding around 30Mbps for bluray video. Thankfully scene groups have figured out ways to undo the damage using the web rips

https://slow.pics/c/uuZvw4U2 - a comparison of the bluray before and after the filter removal on “Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai/Jellyfish Can’t swim in the Night”, a mid anime

https://slow.pics/c/hpobp0nl - a comparison of the web, bluray, and after the filter removal on “Sousou no Frieren”.

Zooming in for detail especially shows the issue and if you watch on a high resolution or physically large display it’s much more noticeable during playback. It wouldn’t matter as much except this is the only source for physical releases for many anime. CR is cancer (but tbf many Japanese studios are also absolutely terrible at releasing their own media in decent quality, don’t even get me started on why downloading in 1080p is sometimes the wrong choice)

or, hear me out, if we had more reasonable copyright and IP laws the permission wouldn’t be necessary for a completely dead 28 year old game that fans spent a great deal of effort reviving with no help or financing from the original rights owner

If the person who holds the code refuses to give it out because they are a jerk then so be it I guess but the law should not stop them from doing so in this scenario. It is absurd

So the decompilation project created a bunch of interest and now Lego will capitalize on their tremendous effort because they own the IP and can shit out a port? awesome, super fair

I’m still bitter that crunchyroll co-opted fan subbing to make a shit load of cash, made speedsubs and the fansub scene whither away, and got away with it to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars

Like the new school anime fans don’t realize what fan subs used to be like. They’ll occasionally download a show from one of the groups that actually still subs like groups back then, mtbb, fff, tsundere, gjm, etc where they have animated op/ed with English lyrics, overlaid signs, different fonts, etc.

Nowadays it’s just rip the crunchy or amazon subs and clean up the typesetting, make a few edits, call it a day. I don’t blame them, that shit must’ve been a ton of work, but when I rewatch something like watamote I miss what we lost. Then I watch a crunchyroll sub rip and it’s like all one font, the op/ed isn’t translated, if they bothered to translate signs it’s often just the same text at the bottom instead of an overlay, etc.

the actual translation with crunchyroll is often mediocre too but that’s a very debatable topic especially depending on whether you think anime fans should understand what things like kawaii, senpai, aniki, and onii-chan mean (plus honorifics in general)

It still happens sometimes though, I remember kaguya having crazy subtitles and that was 2019. Like they pushed the limits of my media player where they had literally redrawn entire backgrounds to translate signs that had 0 relevance to the plot. The chika fans were hardcore

Hard to say. Consoles have certainly gotten more sercure and people finding vulnerabilities are far less likely to just give them out for free these days

But there is incentive to hack any console and nintendo has historically attracted the biggest dorks. Additionally they also seem to historically make pretty huge blunders, though the switch exploit was nvidias fault tbf

Same problem the American media industry has: make a centralized platform that is a reasonable cost and isn’t super hostile to consumers

When Netflix streaming and music streaming first came out piracy started to die out. They are both somewhat hostile to consumers (drm, shitty apps, locked ecosystems, initially couldn’t do offline content) but are at least not hostile enough that the average person doesn’t care. Torrent site active membership started to drop noticeably, especially among American users.

That’s why you can see a difference now - media streaming is a pain in the ass again with price hikes, decentralized platforms, obtrusive advertising, etc, and torrent sites for tv shows and movies are starting to see users come back.

Music sites don’t see the same growth in daily active users though because the music industry has kept music streaming mostly fine. Whether you have apple, spotify, tidal, etc the catalog is mostly the same, comprehensive, and usually ad free if you pay.

Anime and manga sucks; it’s not terribly expensive but it’s yet another cost ($8 mo for crunchyroll, $6 for hidive minimum), the library is already fragmented between crunchyroll/hidive/netflix/etc. the licensing is stupid because Japan’s licensing and copyright stuff is even worse than the us so shows and manga disappear. The localizations range from very good to absolutely terrible and if you’re not in the right mind and actually use dubs they’re often just trash. Not to mention that crunchyroll is a piece of shit company that was built off making hundreds of thousands of dollars by pirating anime with other peoples fansubbing and fandubbing

he’s homophobic and a pedophile enabler so they’ll come to like him soon enough

AI absolutely is the new search but only because the major search engines normal people use have completely destroyed their core products functionality for advertising revenue

AI will likely follow suit. In 5-10 years chatgpt or bard or whatever will give you a completely and obviously biased response promoting a product or service with a sponsored interstitial that is labeled as sponsored before you get the answer to make it seem like the obviously biased answer isn’t a gamed response

If I am murdered please don’t do this. I do not care if you feel like it will help you process the events