No, not really. Valve was sued and (ironically) the arbitrator decided against the validity of the forced arbitration and let the lawsuit happen. If they could still get away with forced arbitration, they wouldn’t have made this change.
Hooray for criminals, who stimulate progress towards protection from criminals. Kings.
She was the Attorney General of California when the backpage founder was arrested.
The California Department of Justice employs 5,000 people. Do you think they have only done this one thing? Do you think they have press conferences for every individual person they prosecute? Do you understand why a whole mainstream platform facilitating criminal behavior is worth more attention than an average criminal?
Probably right, but at least my watch history is all attached to a throwaway email address I use for it.
It’s largely the same because we started out with mostly enthusiasts doing it in semi hidden places. Then it was mainstreamed and became too easy for casuals to do out in the open. So laws and enforcement caught up and now it’s most effective again if you know your way around, which most casuals won’t if they can afford a few streaming services.
One big change is no longer having to burn any media, you download something then it’s on plex and you can watch it instantly.
If I could bring anything back from the 90s it would be a big selection of games, movies, tv, music, and books that I actually care enough to consume. There’s hardly anything worth downloading anymore.
They can fuck off if they think I’m buying anything with Amazon spyware built into it.
I can’t believe people are going to pay money to watch this piece of shit out of curiosity or irony or whatever. And then they’ll wonder why we keep getting shitty movies.
Fuck those shitheads.
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Roku is the worst thing to happen to television since motion smoothing.
This shit can fuck all the way off
I used to worry that AI would help students cheat, but now it turns out it’s going to be the other way around.
Okay but the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution in 1791.
Fuck off
Ultimately each country makes the rules for domains under its top level, for those that are named for the country, like .af for Afghanistan. Everything about the instance is intact and can be moved to a different domain.
Going to take a guess that Apple realized VR isn’t happening this generation, didn’t want the embarrassment of canceling it, so they released it at such a high price point that only a relatively few rubes would buy it, so when they abandon it there won’t be enough people to complain and make bad press out of it.
Could that level of investment ever be recouped in any other manner than by replacing vast numbers of workers and their salaries?
Right, meaning that it’s pointless and costly for them to have a terms of service that directs people to arbitration, hence this change to their terms of service.