I notice the medium easiest to pirate–music–has the best streaming support. I’ d like to be cynical and say there’ s a connection, but I think it’ s just more that 3-5 minutes of media just commands less market value so it’ s easier for people to bid based on needing to control the entire catalog

Personally, I’m back to local music, even though streaming music is a relatively good experience. I left initially for getting fed AI music, also left because I’m poor, but also left because discoverability was weak; that is to say, there were a few limited number of genres and songs I’ d get pulled into, and often I felt like the songs I were listening to were newer and being promoted, not older and classics… and on top of that, payouts to musicians are mostly garbage, and most of the people I listen to are dead or nearly so… so… I didn’t really think I was " supporting" anything worthwhile.

If you like to watch old men shaking their fists at clouds, Rick Beato’ on YouTube is a musician and music producer who has a lot to say about streaming and the state of music… He’s got some interesting points about how streaming as a medium is changing how music is produced and consumed.

I haven’t seen Yellowstone, but it sounds like the short-sightedness profit maximization that is endemic everywhere now. The idea that you need to build a relationship of trust with your customers is completely gone, the idea that your customers can just walk away not only from you, but the entire ecosystem, is also gone… some encouraging/discouraging news from a lot of different places Gaming, for instance, is in a crisis because every game is trying to appeal to everyone and so appeals nobody.

My problem with streaming services is that shows you are actively watching can disappear at any time.

Watching a show on Netflix? Oops, it’s on Disney+ now. Watching a show on Disney+? Oops, it’s on another service owned by Disney, but sign up now for a discounted bundle! Watching a show on HBO that was produced by HBO and owned by HBO? Oops, HBO got bought by an MBA that thinks they can make more money selling the streaming rights to Netflix, or worse, just save a few pennies on royalties but not making the show available at all.

I’d say, “ok, i have one or two streaming services at a time and i’ll just limit myself to what’s available; I want to support the system” and the system would find a way to fuck me every single time.

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Oh, nice. Unfortunately, I use a hotspot and VPN, so I don’t think I can open the ports i need to share my library, so i get blacklisted pretty quickly as a leecher.

Yeah, they’re the servers with the countdown time to start the download.

No idea what they want me to download a net of 200MB to get a 30MB file that fails at 10MB a bunch of times. Seems like they’re wasting bandwidth.

Can you recommend one that does?

And do links expire pretty quickly? Why do my d/l’s keep failing? I think the problem is server side. The d/l fails and the link is deleted.

Oh, cool. Found this with some other options:

https://circletranslations.com/blog/what-closed-captioning-movie-theatres-how-it-works

So it seems there really is no good reason to bring these glasses in to the theater unless you’ve made them your only pair of prescription glasses.

How do you read them? On the screen? I’d find that annoying.

I was looking to see how that transcription feature worked, but since tech journalism is mostly marketing, I couldn´t find it discussed, but I’m guessing it kind of sucks, between latency, errors, and constant retroactive updates to the conversation.

Ideally the theater would be broadcasting the subtitles synced to the movie, because good subtitles are edited for space and timing, so a real-time AI transcription is always going to be a worse experience even if it is technically perfect.

I’ve also been thinking what a tremendous WASTE it is to have individual users transcribing media audio, when it could be easily provided at the source by the creator who does it exactly ONCE.

True, but the display is there to show the subtitles, and it’s much better than looking down at a phone and distracting other audience members.

Trade body says local chains would have to balance concerns with potential benefits of AI-enabled technology

I went into the article so you didn´t have to:

The glasses can help viewers with bespoke subtitles, for example, providing support for people with visual impairment or hearing loss.

I mean, anyone with money to shell out for pervert glasses is going to have better options to address visual impairment and hearing loss, but subtitles are kind of an interesting and valid use case.

What do you want to know? The only thing you really need to know is what a good torrent site is and how to get on it. Not much to discuss, really.

The only new thing I’ve learned about piracy in the last 20 years is Soulseek is the spiritual successor to Naptser if you’re looking for music.

Alloys are intrinsically liberal. Keep metals pure!

In that interpretation; the boss just agrees with what his company’s HR is putting out, so it would really be a non-meme…

Cryptocity where the streets are paved with blockchains and the mayor is AI.

It also has some damn good music… somewhere over the rainbow and if I only had a brain are bangers, and Judy Garland was a touchstone for gay boomers…

Understanding references was part of the draw, too… if I keep seeing a reference to something, I want to watch it. The biggest problem is being unaware that something even is a reference. The Simpsons DVD commentary is eye-opening in that regard.

Huh. Do you particularly care about movies? I think I’m old enough that movie history (watching the classics) was a pretty common hobby… these days, I guess people are patient gaming and there’s a lot more anime to catch up on, on top of all the scrolling.

Yeah, but isn’t it in the pantheon of Movies Everyone’s Seen like The Wizard of Oz and The Matrix?

Is there a word for memes that totally lack the context of their original images to the point of being opposite the intention of the creator?

Because I think the next scene is Ledger’s Joker setting that pile of money on fire.

No, I get it, the problem the way we’ve chosen to build society, but now that it is the way it is, judges and juries are reluctant to ban someone from working and buying groceries for anything less than a prison sentence…

Like it’s pretty crazy to me that the State (USA) can seize you car if you transport drugs with it, but not if yoU literally run over a human being. People with multiple violations and triple-suspended licenses still get to keep their cars.