They could just provide cheap high quality streaming services to end piracy, but instead they want to provide garbage multi-tier advertising enabled massively fractured streaming service and force people to subscribe by playing a lamesauce game of pirate whack-a-mole.

How does it feel to put you life into the hands of a dysfunctional black box?

Which lawyers? Clearly Chevron’s lawyers were able to absolve all their liability so they definitely won.

Furthermore, Chevron extracted close to 30 billion dollars of petroleum and left an environmental disaster behind. Chevron even counter sued and was awarded an addition 3 billion in damages that was reduced to 220 million for Ecuador daring to try and hold a US corporation responsible.

Not only did Chevron prevail they continued the harassment of Steven keeping him under confinement for years and preventing him from practicing law.

I think you are missing hundreds of years of progressive corporate lawyering to entrench their business model(s) into our society.

Take the US for example. Originally corporations had to be for the public good, were time limited, and the owners were held directly financially accountable for their decisions.

It took hundreds of years of court cases and lobbying to get to the point where we are now and it is absolutely insane. There is a reason the corporation has become the dominant form of our culture.

The Kurds should trust the US again. How does the saying go?

Trust them eight times and get betrayed every single time, trust them again and get betrayed just for old times sake - Unknown western diplomat

Correct, with some of the more prolific owners having as many as 30 or more.

There are more guns than people in the US.

Most patents for the medical sector are built off public research. Companies make minor changes to the formula to extend patents sometimes what seems indefinitely.

Reverse engineering a physical device at this point is trivial. There is no need. The reality is these are legal tools that slow down or limit innovation so the “inventer” can collect monopoly rent.

Software patents are absolute insanity often describing concepts from several decades ago like they are novel.

The entire patent system is absolute garbage rife with patent trolls gobbling up any small business that dares to exist.

There are so many examples such as the developer of X-plane that spent 1.5 million dollars and three years fighting a single frivolous lawsuit over a software patent.

https://www.x-plane.com/x-world/lawsuit/

The average patent lawsuit, if it goes federal is around $1.5 million and can go as high as $5 millions Patents are a game normal people get eaten up by.

From an ethical standpoint companies exploiting patent laws to overcharge is disgusting and the practice is rampant

https://www.i-mak.org/overpatented/

There really isn’t anything positive for the typical person. In fact, quite the opposite. Patents are legal tools corporations use to extract monopoly rent. The rest is just propaganda.

That literally has nothing to do with patents nowadays. No one is hiding anything anymore, it is about artificial scarcity to collect monopoly rents.

The fact that you deny that we have already lost billions of lives because of corporations trying to extract monopoly rents is your perogative. It is stupid and ignorant, but your choice.

This is how it was before patent law. The sciences, arts, and commerce existed for thousands of years without these corporate laws. It is about creating artificial scarcity, which is an incredibly dumb concept in our modern world.

You need to eliminate the thought of the big guy stealing ideas from the little guy. This is propaganda used to play on our emotions. Intelectual Property benefits an extreme minority at the cost of billions of lives.

You should be ashamed with how many lives have been lost. Disgusting.

Listen you are a Russian apologist, I think it is bullshit. It is okay.

The guy is a Russian apologist, duh.

I didn’t misread shit

I am glad you can use propaganda to justify in your head garbage policies that get people killed. Good for you I guess.

Back in the real world if I spout pro Maga/Nazi/Fascist rhetoric I would expect someone to call me out on it. That is for you dude

I was shocked that the US would bomb Iran a second time without provocation, without a resolution, a coalition, or even congressional approval. This bombastic policy is the very definition of a war crime.

I am sorry but this is not normal even for the imperialistic war criminal cabal that is the US. It is yet anothrr war crime, every move is so shockingly worse than the last. Every norm, every protocol ignored. A disgusting display of naked power and greed.

The parallels between existing superpowers and the worldwide rise of fascism has not eluded me.

Create the crisis and sell things to mitigate it. Classic fascism.

This is the lesson for the future. Energy is power and the more we decentralize this power the safer we all are.

Advertisers can’t figure out who you are and service providers don’t know if you are from where you say you are. This and age verification are about making money and commerce.

They are just doing the bidding of advertisers. This is all about verifying there is an actual human so advertisers will continue paying companies like Google.

Meanwhile people are debating about child safety. Propaganda successful!

Trump can’t even hold his own bowels. People need to stop listening to him.

Countries hate this one simple trick to ignoring human rights.