Post AXtt6drlWYxk7NA4uW by benjedwards@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AXtt6drlWYxk7NA4uW by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2023-07-19T19:21:30Z
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Expecting TV streaming services to keep a historical archive is like expecting your local movie theater to preserve film history. They only show what is commercially viable, and they discard the rest'Ole Benj warned y'all about this way back in 2012: https://www.technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/
(DIR) Post #AXtt6eVT8wio6VjmnQ by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-07-20T23:08:35Z
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Bang on."Piracy’s preserving effect, while little known, is actually nothing new. Through the centuries, the tablets, scrolls, and books that people copied most often and distributed most widely survived to the present. Libraries everywhere would be devoid of Homer, Beowulf, and even The Bible without unauthorized duplication."@benjedwardshttps://www.technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/
(DIR) Post #AXttB1CihDkPeq38hE by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-07-20T23:08:55Z
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"Piracy’s preserving effect, while little known, is actually nothing new. Through the centuries, the tablets, scrolls, and books that people copied most often and distributed most widely survived to the present. Libraries everywhere would be devoid of Homer, Beowulf, and even The Bible without unauthorized duplication."@benjedwardshttps://www.technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/
(DIR) Post #AXttpm9ZYjjGqr0o7s by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-07-20T23:16:47Z
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"Purchased apps locked on iDevices will meet their doom when those gadgets stop working, as they are prone to do. Even before then, older apps will fade away as developers decline to pay the $100 a year required to keep their wares listed in the store."@benjedwardshttps://www.technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/2/$100 a year to keep an app in the only store allowed on iThings!?!That's morally equivalent to mobsters charging "protection money".
(DIR) Post #AXtuF6qlkL9IHTITQW by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-07-20T23:21:22Z
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"By accepting restrictive DRM into our lives, we are giving not only software publishers, but all media publishers the power to erase, control, or manipulate digital cultural history if they choose."@benjedwardshttps://www.technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/2/#DRM #Orwell #1984 #MinistryOfTruth #MemoryHole