I don’t think YouTube really compares to Netflix

I reckon it’s more like the iPod touch. It’s applying a new idea in an area that is a mismatch for it’s potential. Eventually the best use for the emerging tech will become apparent and the current form will fall away

Hey, you’re just salty that you didn’t get in on the ground floor when Stargate was being exclusively streamed in a dedicated Stargate streaming service

If you get rid of licensing you get rid of the content

How would that work for anything produced by a company? If you’re a continuing run of stories, and a random artist dies, copyright on parts of your product suddenly evaporate? Getting a job as an artist would be like making an insurance claim: with a risk assessment. Good luck getting work as you get older or sick.

Nah, my company doesn’t allow torrenting movies so a corporate VPN is useless

A lot of people are expressing the sentiment that the government should have exposed and punished them, but quietly kicking out spies is par for the course. When this hits the media it’s generally a bad thing.

Everyone spies on everyone. Everyone knows they are getting spied on. You have to be careful how you respond because you don’t want to escalate. You make it known to the other government that they have been caught and you gently move them on as a show of good will. When your spies are caught abroad breaking laws you want them to do the same for you. Now that this has gone public, India lose face, which could cause future tension. Also, sometimes finding spies on home soil can be useful if you let them think they haven’t been caught.

The average citizen thinks you can use playground rules here, but espionage is all about being subtle.

Didn’t the whole third act get rewritten during production? The original bad guy was some cat-man

Well sort of. They are mostly constellations as seen from Earth

That’s normal and expected. What’s sad is that there are countries with governments who don’t tell companies not to be shitty.

If copyright was abolished overnight, then the corporations with enough money would control everything. The chance for an individual creator to create and control their unique art would disappear. Works of art and entertainment would forever be controlled by giant corporations.

Just in case you were thinking about “Cold Lazarus” with the yellow sand, that was actually all practical. It was filmed in the sulphur piles in the Vancouver bay docks.

Everything can be funny, but that doesn’t mean any joke is funny. You still have to approach difficult subject matters with a certain art.

That was a surprisingly good game.

Have you seen the film Dark Star? Bomb number 20 gets stuck in the release bay with the detonation countdown still running, so they have to spacewalk out and convince the AI not to explode.

Was the fifth element Love?

I’m not sure how official “copyleft” is, but it reads like the creative commons licence which which falls under copyright.

So yes, one of the advantages, and explicit purposes, of copyright is that you get to maintain control of how your intellectual property is used.

The people who argue against copyright need to understand that one of the functions of copyright is to prevent companies with deep pockets from taking the profits you deserve for your hard work.

Running from Monster-Ock while the facility is exploding around you. That game was such a banger. And it’s short length is made up for by it’s replayability. Collecting all the comics and suits. Amazing.

It helps that Stargate could get away with stuff that that would have to be done by VFX now. They had underpaid extras suffering heatstroke when these days some of the budget would’ve been used for digital crowds.

The other effects were somewhat standard rotoscope energy blasts and compositing the water effects.