To me, the Internet died a little before 2012. Some may say 2009, others say 2007. But I say it started to die since 2012, it’s just been a steady process and now we’ve been seeing the rapidness catch up within the past 9 years.
It’s not a guess anymore as to how many corps, companies and zealot individuals want to take control of the internet for their own gain.
I called it, sadly. They weren’t going to stop at the e-books. It’ll be music now, then I imagine they’re going to go after as many video clips and then they’ll be after all of the games hosted there that gaming companies today don’t give a shit about preserving unless it’s going to make them a buck again.
This timeline absolutely fucking sucks each and every passing minute.
Because…stickers! Everyone fucking loves stickers!
Oh oh! We can instantaneously share GIFs to eachother! Wooooooooow!
It’s like dangling plastic keys infront of an easily amused baby, these people.
He ruined it for everyone. If he fucking cared about his platform like ridding it from child pedos, drug trafficking groups and vice versa. He could’ve still retained what was already going. But because that he didn’t, this is the course we’re on.
Because OF COURSE they would.
In a Trump-lead administration and Ajit Pai heading FCC, this totally would’ve been passed by now. I don’t like how this is on the table at all and how the decision could go either way. But I’ll take that trade off than it for it to be guaranteed.
It stopped being about self-defense, if anyone ever bothered trailing what Israel had been doing.
But, go watch the prime minister declare everyone anti-semantic anyways over this.
In a perfect world, every dollar we spend goes right to the creators who made the creation.
I would support musicians more if I knew my money was going straight to them. But a lot of the time, they aren’t, so I pirate out of spite against the labels for robbing the musicians through contract, how much they get.
I would support movies more if I knew my money was going straight to them. But a lot of the time, they aren’t, so I buy movies second-hand from thrift stores and not the studios themselves.
I would support games much more if I knew my money was going straight to them. But a lot of the time, they mostly aren’t. So I buy games dirt cheap and occasionally pirate.
And the video games industry can give a single fuck less about preserving them. Only bringing them back for a limited time under reselling compilations or as we’ve seen, those small consoles a few years back where only a hand picked library of games were pre-installed on them. They’re only brought out to simply make a quick buck, nothing more.
Out of those four, Cox is the one seemingly being the one who’s combative. The other three will fold easily and are complicit with any demand the studios have done.
So it is very hard to imagine, really.
That should be a mandatory phrase for all pirate communities.
Just a PSA: VPN and cover your ass as you pirate.
No, what they really mean is that the internet will not forget the shit that don’t matter. We’re talking how obsessed people have gotten with Chris-Chan. All the while this shit is happening.
We don’t give a fuck about how little of a life you live, where you orbit around shitty online people who do shitty things. We are losing stuff like this and getting fucked over all the while.