I think it's pretty f-ed up to say a company has to give their IP and trade secrets to their competitors (aka, your friends) so they can take their business, and then call it fairness. It isn't, it's theft.
Kinda sounds like China's business model, eh?
However, why couldn't Google just yank their servers out of the EU..and station them all around the EU. Sure, there might be a little performance hit, but at least they'd not be compelled to follow the EU rules, and I doubt the EU will firewall all things google, you know?
Hmmmm... interesting approach. Is the license "permission" to watch it from sony during the duration of their contract, or do I "own" the movie, but not how it's presented through Sony, in this case.
If it's the latter, copy/rip the media.
A short aside:
I have a fairly large audible account. I noticed about 10 years ago, I still have books in my queue, but I'm unable to download/listen to them. Audible explained the licence to me, told me that it should appear back in my "library" eventually but might take years (and maybe never), but here, have a free "credit" (which is basically, another free book).
Had that happen about 6 times over the last 10 years (the most recent was about a year ago. Each time, I got a credit -- and with the exception of the most recent, the book re-appeared in my library. If the pattern continues, I should have it back in my library within 2 years from when it was removed.
I can live with that.
"an awful lot of DVDs only last a decade or two."
If only there was some way to take the data on a DVD and move it to a computer. Maybe "brute force it". We could use the term "rip"!
Then backups with redundancy would turn a decade or two in to a generation or ten.
"She's got huge tracts of land!"
Wait....is that, is that...Sir Lancelot I see in the distance, running towards our castle....?
A life support unit for a cunt.
Unfortunately, the pleasurable part of that equation always comes with the other unpredictable part.
They have personality, and actual affection.
Like to see America...
My past dealings (mine and others) have lead me to think of PayPal as a criminal enterprise,
I've seen a lot of hate thrown at PayPal over the years.....and not quite sure why?
I've used it a LONG time for eBay payments, sending money to friends and the odd small merchant.
I wouldn't say I've used it a TON, but some.....and never had any problems.
What problems have ya'll had that you dislike them so badly? Genuinely curious....
I mean, I still can't stand the voice menus when you call support...I''m constantly hitting "0" or saying Operator over and over to get to a real person asap.
Don't get me wrong, I like my AI...ChatGPT can be fun and helpful...but, I don't wanna hold a fscking conversation with it, especially not in public.
Hell, that's one of the reasons I hate the voice support calls, when in public or sitting in Cube Land where everyone has nosy ears....
Most of the world doesn't have DST. It's really just Europe and the US. Somehow they manage.
I"m in the US...and I don't care which one they make permanent
I hate the hour changes....messes with me twice a year fairly badly at times....gets my pets off schedule too which is a PITA.
But WTF is "Protected Leave"?
That is a new term for me.....some forms of vacation time are "protected"?
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
