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Unfortunately I’m not in any specific position to have access to things that could be of help.

But good to know.

Doesn’t have everything, but does have quite a bit. Still 10/10, would use again.

When you hit the “Olde Fortran” too hard one night.

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Specifically, the executives and shareholders want their Publicly Traded Shares of company stock to be increasing in value. Advertisers are good for getting long term holders of the stock to keep holding and buying, but everybody else is looking to quietly pump up the numbers and sell what they can without upsetting the apple-cart.

I’d bet a shiny metal dollar that after the IPO starts, the porn subs will slowly start being winnowed down. Give it a few years and if any exist they will be private.

Porn is less of a legal liability than copyright claims is my guess.

Also… like… if somebody is dumping money into Reddit as a user of Reddit, which is more likely to make them stop: killing the piracy forums or the porn forums?

The optics of a potentially publicly traded company (what ever happened with the Reddit IPO thing?) openly having a “how to steal other companies copyrighted work” forum is more of a negative than IP farming with no method to actually do anything useful with the IP addresses.

Profitability might not be the issue, neither are supposed to function solely to make a profit. From the linked blog post, referencing an email, it is stated that its costing more than the revenue can support.

From a general internet search:

c(3)'s can’t engage too much (or at all) in legislative stuff but a c(6) can

c(3)'s are supposed to do things to help a group outside of itself while c(6)'s are supposed to exist to support their members

c(6)'s aren’t required to report personal information of a person/entity making a donation to the IRS or public

Don’t have time to read the research paper linked by the article at the moment…

But isn’t the research just looking at how people view the message and not “were you pirating stuff and now you’re not?”

tldr

“Womens, get your mans to pirate you the latest season of Outlander”

Does Netflix still do the “free trial period” and “get free months if a friend sent you” thing?

Are there any numbers about how many unsubscribers to compare to the subscribers? That’d be a juicy number.

I mean, my home is filled with ancient laptops that we use until they explode, its a pretty common occurrence when trying to watch something streaming the ads would load just fine but the actual show wouldn’t actually load. So… shrug

50gbps down and 10gbps up

holy shitballs…

There’s no easy way to make this into an actual business proposal… probably to the point that it isn’t possible at all.

The tactic I could think of, if I were to NEED to do this… would be to try to find some way to argue on the grounds of some of the Ethical Altrusim stuff (I’m not a proponent of this stuff but… devil’s advocate time).

You’d get a bunch of rich EA’s to invest a shit ton of money on the regular, you take this money to pay the licensing fees or fees for use on other copyrighted research and technical manuals and then charge as close to zero as you can get away with for the individual users accessing the licensed/copyrighted work. The argument being, “more people having access to quality research and technical documentation will be a net positive for humanity and the return on investment will be measured in thousands of years in the future.”

I was a part of the chapo exodus and found myself just going to the hexbear instead of the reddit to the point that I just pop into reddit like once or twice a year.