They're not stealing anything. People should read the legal contracts they sign or to which they otherwise agree. Streaming services typically include a clause about the right to remove content for any reason and regardless of who has purchased it. This is exactly why their courtesy notice doesn't include a word about refunds and a perfect example of the serious societal problem of people having a knee-jerk reaction to something merely because they haven't been paying attention and didn't do much (if any) research prior to venting their frustrations to the world.
Lawyers and judges themselves don’t read the fine print and it would take an inordinate amount of time for people to read the fine print of every service they were offered. Nobody has time to do such things.
Which is precisely why the courts tend to view misleadingly offering something for sale in the advertisement, and then adding contradictory conditions to that sale in the fine print, as just defrauding their customers. This blame the consumer mentality is impractical, unworkable, and legally wrong.
Unfortunately, this is not the case with physical media that contains licensed material. IF a case were pursued, you would likely pay whatever penalty without any real contest (like 99% of criminals who attempt an insanity plea).
>> "The first sale doctrine, codified at 17 U.S.C. § 109, provides that an individual who knowingly purchases a copy of a copyrighted work from the copyright holder receives the right to sell, display or otherwise dispose of that particular copy, notwithstanding the interests of the copyright owner. The right to distribute ends, however, once the owner has sold that particular copy. See 17 U.S.C. § 109(a) & (c). Since the first sale doctrine never protects a defendant who makes unauthorized reproductions of a copyrighted work, the first sale doctrine cannot be a successful defense in cases that allege infringing reproduction."
"The Boy and the Heron" couldn't be considered inflammatory to Western audiences plagued by guilt as opposed to presenting them with a question loosely meaning, "how do you live with yourself?".
Stop generalizing "The West" as if the West was just the USA.
I remember then internet users said that the West didn't get DBZ until 200s
where in Europe by ~1995 we already finished DBZ for months both in the manga and the anime.
To the luck point, there are plenty of places in the head and neck where an injury won't kill a person. The consequences of the wound to his brain might never be apparent to anyone other than those close to him.
The very basics of storytelling. By definition, you need to be following the "very vague" definition here. Don't read too much into it and don't overthink it, because it's the opposite of what the author (a stellar creator of stories, himself) intended. Most stories, when looked at from a very high level, generally follow this formula. You are suffering from "can't see the forest for the trees" syndrome, old chap.
For one thing, this only really applies to stories with a single protagonist. But lots of stories don't have a protagonist, and thus rarely fit this mold at all.
While Game of Thrones / ASOIAF have many separate interconnected stories and might indeed simply have multiple circles, one for each point of view character*, there are many stories that have a cast of characters and no protagonist.
For example, you could, in principle, analyze the story of each individual character in the Iliad, but that would be missing the story. The story of the Iliad encompasses all of these different characters doing to their part to advance or retard their cause. Different characters are more important in different parts, but there is a single cohesive story being told.
* though even here I would say that the stories of many of the characters don't match the circle model - notably, Ned doesn't return to anything.
I'm glad I'm not some mook like Sousa was, contributing to the nationalism of a country like the United States of America while harboring the futile wish that evolution would just stop with my preferences.
Yes. It's so terrible what cinema did to music. Why can't we have a symphony in every theater?
Oh wait. It probably has a bit to do with the ridiculous waste of space, not having nearly enough trained musicians to meet the demand of the billions of consumers on this planet, no chance in hell of paying them all a fair wage if there were, etc.
Here is yet another example of wishing for "good old days" that will not be remotely possible to bring into modernity on the same scale without a culling of, oh, 75+% of the population.
Consider these two hypothetical situations of a bar. In one, there is a jazz band. They play all night and get paid some money. If you go to New Orleans, there are dozens of bars like this, all with their own jazz band at the same time. Those are people who wouldn't have work in music otherwise without such opportunities being available.
Meanwhile consider another bar, there is jazz music, some Duke Ellington song, but it is coming from spotify. Does Duke get paid here? No, he's dead. Do his grandkids? No, Sony owns the rights. Suddenly there are no musicians getting paid at all for jazz music to be played in this case, just ultra wealthy Sony getting slightly wealthier. That seems worse to me than the above.
The idea that this wouldn't scale now that we have billions of people versus when it did scale fine when we had millions doesn't make too much sense to me. It's not like we all make an order of magnitude less money than our ancestors did generations ago, in fact, despite the population today being at the highest levels its been, we seem to all have more money and access to more resources and better technology. Maybe if somehow we lived in an alternate universe where no recorded music was invented, being a musician might be as common of a job as being a bartender today, and one where some people make a ton of money from tips perhaps. Maybe there would be levels to it, like you'd get a great and well paid in house musician if the restaurant was one to hire a well paid sommelier in addition to bartenders. Somehow though it seems like more people would be playing instruments at a given time in this alternative reality at the very least.
No. They don't. Florida and Texas are both cheaper and don't typically get remotely as cold as much of the mainland. There could be so many reasons for this, but it was basically just another excuse for a deluded, self-entitled US citizen to use CA as an example of "look how the Dems/progressives/libtards/whatever-the-latest-insult-to-their-fellow-citizens are screwing up everything."
It's just more brain vomit to try convincing others we need to roll back the clock to the "good ol' days" when women and minorities were second/third-class citizens, because the world was so much better... for a single demographic.
Remember, these people are buying cardboard cutouts of the face of a man who dodged military service, likely hasn't done a bit of exercise in the last 30+ years and would end up accidentally killing himself and/or his own children if given an M60 machine gun superimposed onto Sylvester Stallone's body. Nothing they say should be taken seriously.
It must be frustrating for you to be so sure of what your opponents think and feel, yet never able to understand what made them vote for the Orange Man.
You are the reason the Orange Man was foisted upon the US. We are going to get more of this, and not less, if you do not learn to communicate with your ideological opponents.
The comment section is vast and plentiful. It's okay to talk about things that aren't limited to scientific accuracy. In fact, that's exactly what you did with your comment.
