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If someone told you, you couldn't do something, and the reasoning was some arbitrary, thinly veiled assertion of power over you, also this person is one of thos
by bobajeff 11y ago
If someone told you, you couldn't do something, and the reasoning was some arbitrary, thinly veiled assertion of power over you, also this person is one of those types that always seems to find their way in such power despite everyone else preference to the contrary, but you had the means to easily bypass their authority. Wouldn't you be just a little tempted?
Keep in mind this is perhaps one of the few cases were you aren't totally powerless.
- pgwhalen 11y agoI don't think that the reason content is not available is an "arbitrary, thinly veiled assertion of power."
- HelloMcFly 11y agoIt isn't arbitrary, but it likely seems arbitrary to many pirates.
- bmelton 11y agoObligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/277/ https://xkcd.com/277/ Everything seems arbitrary when one does not know or cannot guess at the (usually more complicated) underlying reasons.
- chris_wot 11y agoThose reasons are because of negotiating local deals, or to prevent access to the content immediately to push up prices artificially. We do actually know the reasons, and it doesn't make things any better.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoIt is arbitrary. It's a quirk of scarcity economy. If content creators didn't need to trade off time spent on creating content for time spent on earning their bread, we wouldn't have this discussion. And while I sympathize with content creators here, we've turned this into a machine for big companies to print money. At this point, if the crude hack doesn't even serve its purpose, why should people care?