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  • On the post: Disney+ Titles Disappear Without Warning, Bringing Confusion To The Streaming Wars

    crade ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2020 @ 07:57am

    I think "Amazing Work" is a bit of a stretch.. When it was released after months of beta testing it still couldn't even resume your shows or tell you which episodes you had watched.. Didn't work at all for tons of people, still doesn't work on Linux and worst of all... No Muppet Show..

    "and exclusive programs like The Mandalorian" is maybe less of a stretch but I would say instead "and the exclusive program: The Mandalorian"

    I predicted Disney would screw this up because they overvalue their content and doing something like throwing the doors open so you can watch whatever you want just isn't in their DNA but I did not predict that they would screw up the service itself so badly.. I mean they already had Hulu running for a long time, it's pretty embarrassing I should think.

    Disney also specifically made the claim that they were not going to do the rotating stock thing when promoting the service.

    So anyway stop hoarding The Muppet Show and you will have my 7$

  • On the post: Sonos' Wasteful 'Recycle Mode' Bricks Perfectly Usable Tech

    crade ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2020 @ 09:07am

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    Sonos would be the one running the key sale service.

  • On the post: Sonos' Wasteful 'Recycle Mode' Bricks Perfectly Usable Tech

    crade ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2020 @ 02:53pm

    "which Sonos quietly admits is reversible on a "customer by customer" basis"

    So all it takes to flip the script on this is to set up a key sale service..
    fixed version:

    Customer1 decides to upgrade
    Sonos gives discount for new product, disables existing product
    Customer1 gives away old product or sells dirt cheap
    Customer2 pays Sonos discount +/- some factor to reenable old product

  • On the post: No Surprise: Judge Says US Government Can Take The Proceeds From Snowden's Book

    crade ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2019 @ 06:08am

    "a contract is a contract"
    There you go, so all the gov has to do is make an agreement with every company out there, give a major break on taxes (of course you will excessively ramp them up first.. goes without sayin) if they agree to add some lifetime non gov't disparagement clause to their employment contracts and you've completed your circumvention of the first amendment for every citizen with the means to use it

    Naturally throw in a contract at the airports too (in exchange for the privilege of flying of course) for good measure.

  • On the post: No, Filing A Defamation Lawsuit Is Never The Only Way You Can Clear Your Name

    crade ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2019 @ 12:25pm

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    I wish public opinion followed the most persuasive arguments. Public opinion follows something more along the lines the path of least resistance.

  • On the post: Why Are Members Of Congress Telling A Private Organization Not To Comment On Copyright Law?

    crade ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2019 @ 07:25am

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    "This screams a first amendment violation" I would go further and say that this is a quintessential example of why the first amendment was created.

  • On the post: Marvin Gaye Family Not Done With Pharrell Just Yet: Bring Him Back To Court Claiming Perjury

    crade ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2019 @ 07:30am

    Re: Marvin Gaye and his estate

    "Marvin Gaye was a wonderful musician" Getting worse all the time thanks to his ex-wife and kids.

  • On the post: Teespring Takes Down Our Copying Is Not Theft Gear, Refuses To Say Why

    crade ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2019 @ 10:13am

    "promoting illegal acts" is vague enough, but the examples that they provide would pretty clearly imply that your shirt should be acceptable.

    They do say "Political speech or discussions about topics or events that are illegal may be acceptable" but they keyword there is "may".. So I guess it depends if they agree with the political speech or not

  • On the post: Russia Blocks All Of Shutterstock Due To 'Offensive' Image Involving The Russian Flag

    crade ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2019 @ 08:19am

    Re: Russia has the same freedom of speech the US has...

    Pelosi maybe.. Trump would be protected.

  • On the post: Attorney General To Law Enforcement Critics: Good Luck Getting A Cop When You Need One

    crade ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2019 @ 08:33am

    We realize that our actions are intolerably horrible, but that's not because our actions need to change it's because the public doesn't tolerate enough horrible.

  • On the post: Disney's Decision Not To Renew SecuROM License Bricks 'Tron: Evolution'

    crade ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2019 @ 09:18am

    Re: Re: Re: Keep this episode in mind...

    You would probably need a full time research team and lawyer to boycott Disney completely

  • On the post: Colorado Appeals Court: Three Months Of Surveillance Via Pole-Mounted Camera Is Unconstitutional

    crade ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2019 @ 12:11pm

    I don't exactly get what the judge is getting at or what time has to do with it.. I totally get that you shouldn't be surveilling people without a warrant.. But a time based cap does seem kinda arbitrary.. It's not really more invasive to do it for 3 months all at ones than 1 months at a time with gaps in between or depending on the person, maybe 3 months in the summer feel like less of an invasion than 1 week around Christmas.

    If technology / whatever advances to the point where it can differentiate between when something interesting / embarrassing is happening and only surveil those specific times you could make your time really short but it's not really going to make it any less invasive

  • On the post: ICE Says Students Duped By Its Fake College Sting Should Have Known It Was A Sting

    crade ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2019 @ 12:26pm

    "ICE's fake college looked like a legitimate option, seeing as the agency had talked an accreditation agency into giving it the official thumbs-up as a certified education entity. The fake college had an online presence and a physical building. It also had staffing that accepted tuition money before turning applicants in to ICE agents "

    What I haven't been able to determine is what makes it fake.. It sounds like it more than "looks" like a legitimate option, it meets all the official criteria for being one. Having real classes should be part of the criteria that is required in order to get accreditation, but the gov't deputizes agencies with the authority to decide which schools are legit via the accreditation process. It's easy to say it should not have been accredited, but that is just a failure by the agency.
    Is the government trying to say that accreditation by a gov't approved agency does not mean that the school is considered legitimate? If so then what does it mean that the agency is gov't approved?

  • On the post: Facebook Claims Users Sign Up Because They Want To See Personalized Ads, Max Schrems Disagrees — And Usually Wins These GDPR Arguments

    crade ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2019 @ 10:57am

    Facebook would have the court believe that users know exactly what they are committing to when they agree to the service's terms and conditions, and yet: "not even the top Facebook privacy expert can explain exactly what the company does with our data."

    This is hardly a contradiction. What the users "commit" to and what the company does with the data are two different things. The users "commit" to some broad overarching "we can mostly do whatever we want with your data" type of agreement that I'm sure the privacy expert knows just fine. What is actually currently done with the data is a question bogged down with implementation details.

  • On the post: Will Google's Stadia Game Streaming Platform Be A Dud?

    crade ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2019 @ 08:00am

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    I'm not criticizing for asking money for hardware. The hardware is just implementation details of how their service works and doesn't matter to me. I'm actually more in the camp of "I can't find an excuse to sign up right now". I do see the potential value in the future if things go well and they get a bunch more games, and I could easily see myself signing up at that point but we are not in the future and anyone can always just sign up later if it does improve so I just don't see the benefit in being an early adopter. It almost feels like I would be signing up for a kickstarter at this point putting my money down in order to help them get off the ground so the service has a chance to succeed. I feel like they should be offering a limited time thing or something extra for early adopters, but like you say it could be just me and maybe there are tons of people who think 130$ for the current offering for 3 months is worthwhile as it stands.

  • On the post: Will Google's Stadia Game Streaming Platform Be A Dud?

    crade ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2019 @ 07:21am

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    Yeah I'm not upset by it or anything, there's no harm in it. I just don't "get" it. The reason I said it's more like a donation is that I don't understand the value they are offering at this point. I get that there is a cost involved; I'm not saying they should give it away. I just don't see the value to the customer especially at the beginning so I don't quite get how they plan to sell it.

  • On the post: Will Google's Stadia Game Streaming Platform Be A Dud?

    crade ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2019 @ 11:49am

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    And what you get for the service at the moment is so paltry that I have a hard time grasping that people will think it's worth the up front cost they are charging for the hardware... You could probably permanently buy most of that offering for less than 130$ and play it on the hardware 95% of their market already has.
    Sure it could get better later, but you can also sign up later if it does.

  • On the post: Will Google's Stadia Game Streaming Platform Be A Dud?

    crade ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2019 @ 11:31am

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    No I'm saying the hardware doesn't do anything for you, only for them.. Whether you "own" the hardware or they do makes no difference whatsoever since all the hardware does is enable you subscribe to their service, so that's what you are paying your 130$ for. 130$ for the ability to subscribe to their game rental service.

  • On the post: Should Doxxing Be Illegal?

    crade ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2019 @ 09:56am

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    Do you have a reference because as far as I can tell you just made it up. When I google "inherent to a crime" and "first amendment" I get one result back and it is your techdirt comment.

  • On the post: Should Doxxing Be Illegal?

    crade ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2019 @ 09:18am

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    Where do you get that idea from? It wouldn't do anything if that was the line. They could just make harming the government's reputation a crime and then criticism is inherent to it...

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