Probably corny and dumb af

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Glad he was released, but if insulting someone is a crime, fuck that place.

Interesting. I had shifted over to using SatsBack afters years of Lolli as they had stopped giving me credit for purchases through vendors despite ensuring I activated Lolli. Hopefully they fix that, and add lightning payments, doing $15 USD on chain transactions felt stupid.

The studios made a very obvious push to combat the power of movie stars by investing heavily into IP. Why pay Tom Hanks a crazy amount of money and market him as the attraction when the IP itself can be the marketer and who gives a shit if Spiderman is played by Toby, Tom, or Andrew if people will go and see it regardless? It's less risky business wise to go with known IP then to attract people to new IP where you need to build an audience from scratch. As a result we lost all new creative motivational because the big studios only want to invest in known IP with replaceable actors, leading only to iterative story telling instead of new innovative ideas. Sad.

When does Paul le Roux get released again? /s.

I think it would be interesting if people could just host their own media servers (decentralized) and use a marketplace to sell temporary access to it. It's the platform incentives that lead to the 10+ minute videos and embedded ad reads. I haven't used Rumble, but I assume it's likely got similar incentives to YouTube in that way, could be wrong. I imagine the fact that if there is no centralized hosting service and the content is on each creator or curator's server it maybe potentially shifts the burden of managing/risking DCMA violations to the host? Like I could host a library of content only I either created or pirated that I wish to risk/share and charge per stream. If a bunch of people did that, you could have a nice little platform front end that routed content P2P? Wouldn't it also be harder for those media companies to figure out potentially where the user and hosts connect and serve violation notices? I know little of what I speak, and even less of how to explain a coherent thought haha. I simply host a media server at my house for my own personal use, but I know I can grant people like family/friends in other houses access to stream off my server. I imagine there has got to be a way to do that in mass across many users. Like torrents, but for streams.

Maybe I'm not thinking about this correctly.

Just rip all your DVDs (if you are old enough to have a stash) and set up a Plex media server. Get a local library card and many have DVDs for rent. Rip them and add them to your own library to stream on your own devices. No need to share. You could provide access to your server, though that may violate terms of service for Plex. Jellyfin or Emby I think are open source and Id be surprised if they police sharing of content/selling access as much as Plex but I don't use them. Then use tools like meTube to gather YouTube vids which rips out the ads. Add them to the same server. It's not as challenging to build and host your own media and cancel streaming subscriptions as one might think.

Could probably then do set up P2P lightning payments and access if you are inclined. Or if you make an individual library for each piece of media, you then create a marketplace where individual hosts can list available content and set prices, and the "order" is routed. No downloading, but free decentralized P2P streaming on an individual piece of media basis.

This is a half assed idea literally written from the shitter at work and I have 2 mins before my next meeting. But maybe I'll ponder on it more later.

God this is creepy. Glad I don't use Xfinity, but now I gotta believe basically all ISPs and telecoms have the ability to do this.

Welcome to the Elite Eight!

I second that. What a weird but fascinating story. Definitely want to know what other Succession type drama brews behind the scenes.

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I guess some busts are so damn bad (Oden, Bennett, Kwame Brown) that it distorts the way I look at players that were capable of averaging 20 points a game in the NBA.

Lol, only because I flat out forgot he existed. He wasn't actually a bad player or bust. Legit just forgot him.

My eyes well up any time I think about Derrick Rose :( what could have been.

Some other I forgot about, Andrea Barngani(sp) haha. Greg Oden was a beast but constant big man foot injuries if I remember right.

Brewers have a chance to knock 4 teams out this week lol

This is dumb

Man, the Haliburton injury has created one of the greatest "what ifs" in recent memory. Still ended the game with the most 3s made... Crazy.

Oof, yeah think I'll skip that again next time I visit haha

Unfortunately I have not haha.