They very nearly beat piracy when there was basically only one streaming service, Netflix, and everything was on it.

Music piracy used to be the biggest thing and now no one pirates music anymore since there are one or two streaming services with essentially 100% of all the music available

Make going legit easier than piracy and piracy goes away

But unfortunately for the studios everyone wanted to get their own piece of the streaming revenues and fragmented the market. In a lot of ways it’s still better than the old cable tv system (everything on demand, no or at least fewer ads, higher quality programming) but the sheer amount of services someone needs in order to be able to watch everything (and even then it’s not 100%) is really turning people off.

If they’d all stuck with Netflix or whatever and every studio got on board there’d be basically no piracy now

The one penny increase in price really gonna make or break you, huh?

A can of beer is going up in price by less than a penny

Come to Canada and use Robertson for everything

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I’m assuming the bread pumpernickel which literally means “farting Nicholas” must be related to these jokes. Why does Nicholas always fart?

And they are because Alberta is statistically the youngest province

The first season of The Sopranos, James Gandolfini was only 36 or 37 when they were filming it. He looked 50 easily

Ah, ok interesting take on that. I see your point

Yeah saying Apple is anti-privacy is like… what? Compared to who? Apple is consistently fighting against meta and google (and governments) in favour of user privacy

One ring = only one copy of the card ever made

No American or international news either, says Meta

Canadians will no longer be able to view or post news content on Facebook or Instagram. News outlets, including international ones, will start having their content blocked on those platforms

https://apple.news/A5nT7dG6fQFyBF5H4MlZjOA

Similarly, “presently” originally meant “soon”, but now people use it to mean “at this time”. Like “I will be leaving presently” could mean two different things depending on who’s saying it

Anecdotally, Saskatoon Pride was this past Saturday. Tremendous turnout of at least 10,000 (actually the parade this year was the largest parade of any kind in the history of Saskatchewan), and as far as I’m aware there were no protestors of any kind anywhere along the parade route, and there were no security incidents at all during the festival

Copy the address !aww@lemmy.ml into the search bar on your home instance. When you search that triggers your instance to federate that community and now will know about it. Then when you have the search result back you can click the community and subscribe to it

I am also from Saskatoon, I think we need a community here for the city