It boggles my mind how people in power over these streaming services just don’t get it:
Oh they get it, you can be sure of that. It's just they're so, so greedy they don't care that eventually in the future the well will dry up, they only care about more money NOW.
I was playing a lot of WWF No Mercy recently. Absolutely a gem of a game, it's very fun despite the wonky N64 control scheme. Kid me would've probably loved this game back in the day, but alas.
Yes and no. While people can read the code and potentially exploit it, the opposite is also true. Having full access to it means others can find flaws in the code you've missed and contribute improvements to it. Being closed-source can be a detriment in that regard, so much so companies often rely on external security audits and the like.
information, ideas, opinions, or images, often only giving one part of an argument, that are broadcast, published, or in some other way spread with the intention of influencing people's opinions
The systematic dissemination of information, esp. in a biased or misleading way, in order to promote a particular cause or point of view, often a political agenda. Also: information disseminated in this way; the means or media by which such ideas are disseminated. Cf. black propaganda n.
Propaganda is information, often inaccurate information, that a political organization publishes or broadcasts in order to influence people.
Point being, even if it's not necessarily all lies how do you know you're not being lied to or mislead when most propaganda are, by definition, lies and half-truths? I don't trust any sort of propaganda because chances are I'm being lied to.
Unironically Deus Ex, it's full of cookie-cutter crazy conspiracy theories and references, but it introduced me to the literary genre of Cyberpunk and it's surrounding culture back in the day. If it wasn't for it, I probably wouldn't be so critical of modern consumerism and corporate culture. It helps that a lot of the game's social commentary remains very topical twenty years later, they simply don't make games like this anymore.
And it's paid. Fucking worthless hack. It's a "free" software that's both paid and you're not allowed to share, why even bother using a GPL like license at that point? Just to get people to work for free on your shitty app?
Yeah how about no? Knowledge should be free, I'm not gonna pay 5c every time I want to open Youtube or some shit. In a utopia you'd pay some small government tax that'd go towards keeping the web ad and paywall free, so the people get happy and the greedy corporate rats get their dirty money.
cough mpv cough