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I wish pirate streaming operations a speedy death.
The big news/current affairs instances are characterized by autistic screeching that has only a passing relevance to the article posted. See https://iusearchlinux.fyi/post/5429432
You can take the commenter out of R*ddit…
Assume for a moment the platform providers are in a game of chicken, continually eating costs in the hope of soaking up subscribers from their (at some point) defunct competitors. Every year this competition continues, the victor needs to make increasingly outrageous changes to the service offering in order to bridge the profitability gap. Or perhaps they are betting that a chunk of savings will come from reduced spend on rights, in a market with fewer bidders for programming?
Are investors in the conglomerates even agitated yet?
I felt the Geidi Prime stadium scene was an infra-red footage showoff first and foremost. I wondered why so much runtime went toward setting up
spoiler
the na-Baron, only for him to die in the last 10 minutes.
Granted, I haven’t read the books. Perhaps it’s key to the story later, or illustrates something about the Harkonnens…
Pixel Pirate II Hollywood Trailer https://yewtu.be/watch?v=cdK0RoO5hpY
This is an interesting response. It makes me wonder whether the real risk of piracy to game publishers isn’t so-called ‘lost’ sales, but having their control of the initial impressions window undermined by genuine critical reception*. Marketing efforts are seriously compromised unless they operate in an information void. Denuvo provides that void.
[*] Video game reporting outlets not included for reasons that should be obvious in the year 2024