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#TLDW:

#Piracy is a #Service Problem.

  • Gabe Newell

youtube.com/watch?v=SWmufgTp6E

Piracy will exist as long as #corporate #greed will exist.

If it was my decision #Copyright and #patents would be contingent on the #media / #technology being produced and offered for sale.

  • In fact I think every #claim for #losses should be tossed by any #judge whenever there was no #legal way to obtain a new copy of some content.

Espechally since we live in the #AgeOfAbundance and nowadays the cost for distributing even a #AAA #Game or #Movie is merely the cost of #Storage and #Bandwith, so at worst a whole Euro if we're talking #PayAsYouGo - #Akamai with no minimums to get stuff distributed.

  • We'd be in the single digit cents if we use #P2P technology like #BitTorrent and #IPFS to keep stuff available.

Photos of shooter and use of silencer helping w search. Multiple outlets reported today that shell casings from shooting had words “deny,” “defend,” "depose" written on them - w a Sharpie. Some have speculated that these words refer to terms industry critics use to describe tactics that insurers employ to deny claims. Reports that UnitedHealthcare’s #claim #denial rate is the highest in the industry at 32%. #insurance Federal govt does not collect claim denial data qz.com/unitedhealthcare-denied

Quartz · No one knows how often health insurers deny claims. Here's whyBy Bruce Gil