No, it's not.

Thank you for reminding me why I stopped reading Slashdot forums. Your opinion will change when it suits your interests, in that miraculous postmodern way. No point in arguing for either of us. Arguing is for people who exercise reason, and that's so far from a majority even here on slashdot, there is no chance for comment moderation to work. Web 2.0 has been the death of reason, and democratized moderation has been the death of unpopular truth. Someone is going to respond with something about "whose truth?", perhaps, and demonstrate they don't know what postmodern means. And they'll get voted up. I don't care any more. Goodbye.

You said, "It's more than a mere coincidence that no legitimate company happens to have ever used DRM." Expound on this, please.

If you're in the US, you have a defensible position if you pay for the service but pirate files so you can play the shows you have paid for in Linux, and delete them after your stop paying for the service. You also have a defensible position if you pay for the service and use a recording program post-decoding to re-encode a slightly degraded new video file for your own perpetual use. The agreements with the providers may use language that contradicts this, but if you research, you will see that both of these two positions are defensible.

We DON'T have a defensible position if we don't ever pay for the service at all. We would be taking something, giving nothing, and the shows we are enjoying would disappear. A judge would rightly call this stealing.

Zoom is a company that lies about its security. No one should be using this software. Tell your friends to switch to something else.

Right. That's why critics talk about how Peter Jackson broke their hearts and shattered their childhood dreams of what the Lord of the Rings would be like on film. That's why the films have almost no poetry, no songs, no warmth. Because I'm stupid, or pretending to be. I'm curious, had you read the books before you saw these films?

I get that it seemed like it was going to be a big cinematic deal when Fellowship was released, but it was quickly proven by successive iterations that Jackson and his team have no grasp of the warmth and goodness of LOTR. Why stage such an event? In service of what? One promising movie and five overly-actiony risk-free supercool sequels aiming at people who will never read the books? Not interested.

It seems to me that Ridley just told them the same stories he told Starlog magazine in the 1970's. Hardly secrets.

Read a book, kids.

Lol, "making an aimbot is trivial". So, old quakeworld bots are tic tac toe players, and modern bots are systems that balance a number of complex objectives? Is that what you're getting at?

Teaching bots to miss convincingly was the first problem we had to solve back when we were constructing quakeworld bots. It's hard for me to believe that it's some kind of news when bots defeat humans.

I don't have to defend my observation. I've stepped down.

This is great! I thought being a founder of something was an indelible historical event, but apparently, you can step down from being a founder! I'm going to go found some evil groups right away...once I step down, I won't be a founder any more, so I will be absolved forever. Awesome!

I can't help it.

I'm horrified by the lack of attention to grammar in Slashdot headlines. Some may find my reaction horrifying, but I'm fairly certain they are overreacting.

"Get in, get out again, and no one gets hurt."