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[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Are there any instances of a 3rd party making digital copies of games available and paying some licensing fee back to the copyright holders? Something akin to how book libraries handle ebooks?

Maybe Steam falls in this category a bit, but I'm thinking something more exhaustive and focused on games that are otherwise out of production.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 3 weeks ago

Some of the companies involved that are mentioned in the article:

  • Service providers (Comcast, Charter, Cox)
  • Entertainment (Disney, AMC, Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery
  • Those connected to advertising (Google, Netflix, Amazon, Meta, Vizio, the NFL)
  • Home security (ADT)
[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I also sorta had a moment of perhaps morbid curiosity about this one.

Do they simply have an extraordinary sense of entitlement? A strong belief that getting ahead means being clever about working the system? A philosophical commitment to fringe ideas of what it means to be a person in society?

Or are traffic citations that much of a nuisance that you'll do anything to get out of them? A lot of the posts I see here seem to focus on transportation / driving.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 195 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

As another comment said, I also dropped everything and read the article. So yeah I guess that'd mean Streisand effect is coming into play.

Regarding the topic at hand: I don't care what these companies say at this point. The fact is that in the past, I have used their services, clicked the "free" button, did some things, and then ended up having to pay them money.

Until the day comes that I get a letter in the mail from the government saying, "Here's how much you paid in taxes, if you're cool with that then please disregard", I will not be satisfied.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 81 points 3 weeks ago

Klan.

I don't care the intent or the season or the laws or the lulz. You wear a white fucking sheet to a polling place in a southern state, it looks like the fucking Klan. Fuck them.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Side note: dang, you can do what now? I wonder how people have me labeled...

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Sphygmomanometer

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 month ago

I'm just guessing here, but I imagine it's for "marketing purposes". People sometimes (perhaps often) move around without changing their phone number, so area code alone wouldn't be enough to pinpoint where you live.

Knowing where you live probably helps with micro-targeting ads.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

I'd say those aren't my pronouns, but how would you know whether or not to believe me?

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not gonna lie... the headline got me to finally get around to donating.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 171 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Vance’s mother was able to buy private insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplace, run by Ohio, after overcoming substance abuse, becoming financially stable, and earning too much to stay on Medicaid.

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