Mindwipe

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811.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
In Netflix's case they don't even need that, the content will be coming from an OpenConnect cache in their premises.
812.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
You used to be able to for HD, you've never been able to for UHD.
813.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Netflix disables HDMI out on it's Android and iOS apps with downloaded content, this won't work.
814.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
HLS to Safari/iOS and Dash to everything else.
815.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
> The good thing about the Apple Appstore, that promotional/marketing push notifications are forbidden and will get your App banned from the Appstore. Lol, no it won't. Apple do promotional notifications themselves even.
816.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
The original archive isn't altered. If you want to go to the British Library in person or if you want to obtain an academic pass to the BBC archive you can still see the originals. This article is about repeat airings.
817.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
> For most of my Gen X life here in the US, the only censors of note were the far right, trying to ban porn and naughty words. That's definitely not the case in the UK however. And literally never was. The UK has a law banning &quot
818.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
What an odd article. The value of most state fiat currencies has many of the problems cited - the value of the US dollar and GB pound is non-trivially based upon slavery and unquestionably significantly driven by environmental damage, but t
819.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Spotify clearly cares about music - hence the entire history of the company & product. That is definitely not clear any more. As someone who doesn't listen to podcasts via Spotify, the UI is literally unusable for music nowada
820.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
> He may be getting paid a lot for his show by Spotify, but he's no corporate media. It is really very hard to think of a more exact description of "corporate media" than a media that gets funded by the payment of hundreds
821.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
> The licensing costs of all major languages can't be prohibitive. It's not the cost, it's that their removal is a disincentive for people to use VPNs to hop outside of their usual residential territory.
822.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Because the text is ultimately copyrighted and it would get DCMAed immediately.
823.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
As is regulatory scrutiny.
824.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Yeah, I've never seen a company so keen to alienate it's core audience. Well, at least not for a few years.
825.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
TBF the mood music has changed on mergers and I'm not sure that would have gone through today.
826.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Section 296ZB of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (1988) as modified by the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations (2003). iTunes isn't unlawful in the UK, as there's no prohibition on making software to format shift. It&#
827.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
> I often wonder why Netflix is willing to pay so much for the Office and Friends but isn't trying to make a new show like that. Because the hit rate for sitcoms is infinitesimal, and it's still cheaper to buy Friends than it i
828.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
> I can understand that dubbed audio might not be available on other country Netflix' but the subtitles? Subtitles are absolutely limited by region by the studios as part of stopping people VPNing around to access titles that haven&
829.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
No, because the prohibition is on acquisition of the software. Though if you brought the software to do so with you you'd be in breach. But it's worth noting that virtually every country in the world has a prohibition on acquiring
830.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Widespread piracy is a function of access to user-friendly pirating services like torrents or warez sites, not the ability to generate a pirated copy. It's both. Easy generation of pirated copies also vastly increases the number o
831.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Yes, but also he's not trying to make films that have to be suitable for eight year olds.
832.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Yes, but it does suggest that converting any given market doesn't require there to be a singular combined app. I think it might not have been a terrible idea, but probably not a terrible idea.
833.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
> The thing about iMessage is that you don’t need a separate app. Given iMessage basically has no base outside of the US because everyone uses Whatsapp or Line I'm not convinced this is terribly neccessary.
834.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Google infighting plus a bit of a complete failure to push back against American carriers.
835.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
No, you aren't. Italy has an anti-circumvention law that expressly prohibits this, and that law is a codification of an EU directive common across the entire EU. You are allowed backup unprotected DVDs in Italy, but not protected ones.
836.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
To all intents and purposes there aren't any that are functioning countries. Iran maybe, best of luck getting your code hosted there in an widely accessible way (IIRC Iran had membership until 2016 and technically does have a prohibiti
837.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
> depends on what country you live in. Not everyone lives in the USA As anti-DRM circumvention laws are a requirement of membership of the WTO, there are very few functioning countries that do not have them. The US law is not exceptional
838.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
There are various notices with different rules, and it's somewhat dumbing it down to refer to a singular "DMCA notice", which generally here is used to refer to a copyright takedown request but has never actually really mean
839.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
"Effectively" in legal terms means "to have an effect" (as in any effect at all), not that it has to be "effective" as in "good at it's job." The plain English meaning of the word isn't real
840.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
> What happens if you print out the source code and publish it as a book? Can the courts prohibit a book? Certainly under most European circumvention prohibition laws there's no requirement for the distribution of the circumvention

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