Sea of Thieves (PC) is a game about synonyms.
So the music industry is going hard in the paint on DMCA takedowns on Twitch. An interesting approach to take from a music industry dying of thirst in a desert because they bought a bunch of sand and didn't know where to put it.
And it's an interesting problem to tackle for a video game streaming platform whose business model relies on a lightly modified version of the very theft the music industry is trying to curtail.
And I know, I know. Who gives a fuck? The world has way bigger problems than some quarantined lawyer at Atlantic Records walking past his kid on a laptop, hearing "Bodak Yellow" playing in the background of a Twitch stream, and getting a nosebleed from the erection.
But this is where we are in life, and these are the things we need to worry about now because the devil is literally in the details. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act has been growing in power since 98 and has reached its final form. The fall of western civilization is almost assured, but damn bruhman, we can't listen to a little music while the ship goes down? That's too much?
And I know, I know. "J4, that's how the world works. They own the music and they have the right to taketh away." God, do I hate the phrase, "That's how the world works." The world is not working right now, literally or figuratively.
Think of the internet as a series of tubes. On one end is a person who wants to share a product of their intellect, be it a meme, music, game, what have you. on the other end is a person who wants to receive that product. In the middle is an algorithm designed to halt this process and veto at will. If that fails then any rando human loosely related to the IP can.
"Hmm, you didn't create this thought, this sound, this concept, this art, so it can't be shared... Without my cut."
It doesn't matter if the creator understands organic marketing and says it's ok. It's not theirs anymore. Even if they have the masters. Now, if this tube was a water hose, that stoppage would be called what it is, blockage, not how the hose works. But I digress, it's almost curfew and I gotta gear up to buy a pack of smokes and hope the roving gangs of cops, military, actual gangs, "patriots," or garden variety crazies don't yank on me.
Tell me again how we aren't in the preface to a Cyberpunk novel?
Anyway, shouts to info, rip tb rip tc rip tall-t. Love is wise, hatred is foolish. Get out there and do the best you can with the time you have, we believe in you. Also Jobs.
The Protoculture Mixtape : Issue : People : Antonyms
