Mondez

I think it's cute you thought you lived in a country that had free speech.

Bioware has been replaced a person at a time ship of theseus style with lesser quality staff, the magic has long departed and it's just another mediocre studio now trading on a name.

These kinds of figures are pointless without knowing the starting number of users, it could be an increase from 10 to like 30 or something... Also, this sudden rush of articles mentioning rednote seems more like an attempt to induce movement to it, but that could just be me being cynical.

Just like pretty much all media ever really. It's not like many novels, songs, movies and TV shows are world wide hits either.

All a NAS is is a separation of concerns, if you build a system who's only job is to provide networked storage, then that system is a NAS. If you buy an off the shelf "NAS" and proceed to run a bunch of services on it, that is a home server, not a NAS. Build your own NAS and most of your concerns go away.

A baby doesn't learn concepts by repeating words over and certainly knows what a mother is before it has any label or language to articulate the concept. The label gets associated with the concept later and is not purely by parroting and indeed excessive parroting normally indicates speech development issues.

I think the point is that it would have still been a fantastic game if it hadn't sunk a load of money into looking like a movie.

Yes but that is still one company which I doubt is a massive contributor to GDP. However upon reading more about it it seems it's linked to Berlusconi so I'm guessing that its a case of corruption with these laws serving to protect personal profits?

I don't get it, most of the streaming providers they are protecting are foreign companies, if anything piracy is keeping more money in the local economy so why go so hard on IP laws above and beyond any treaty requirements?

You are talking about the boot loader, but even that is pretty standard. There could be hardware exploits in place, sure, but we are mostly talking about a very low margin product and the volume of data that you'd need to retrieve and process to sift out anything useful would be massive and obvious so in general I think this is mostly conspiracy level thinking. Any shenanigans is going to be done in small targeted batches if it's done at all to try to infiltrate specific targets and reduce risk of some curious researcher or enthusiast accidentally stumbling across it and ruining it.

That is a fair point though honestly I don't think the end user should be on the hook at all, it should be the people providing the service as they are the ones effectively running counterfeit streaming services.

Depending how long they had used the service they probably saved more than €150 just by not paying subscriptions to all the services they would need for the same content. Cost of doing business?