Got to wait until the network effects make it hard to get the momentum to go elsewhere before really turning the enshittification screws. Look at how much it's taken to dent twitter significantly.
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All of us are neandthal too, and decendants of various ancient celebrities as well as all the forgotten commoners.
This only tells you about your very recent ancestry, but go back enough generations are you are descended from everyone alive at the time who still has living decendants, just like everyone else.
When we're they last sold though, eol 8 years after last up for sale is fine, but if they were still on sale up to last month that is a different issue.
I wouldn't call anyone buying into a piracy service an elite pirate, they are the piracy equivalent of script kiddies.
I dunno, calorie restrictions has tended to lengthen lifespan in other organisms we've tried it on.
Now all restaurants are taco bell.
Why have content on the web at all if it can't be viewed by anyone? Even if generated with an intention to generate profit, there is no opportunity to do so if no one is looking at it.
And if everyone blocked ads and couldn't see sites that insisted on advertising, how would that work out for the websites?
If you are going to worry about archival then when reencode it at all? Just remux the content from the dvd into a suitable container and be done with it.
The whole idea of copyright is a granting a state backed monopoly which is the antithesis of a free market as I understand it.
I disagree with the "don't ask stupid questions" any question you ask might be viewed as stupid by someone who knows the answer. Better to say "don't ask questions you know are stupid".