Non-IT News Thread
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/business/media/disney-fox-deal.html
Disney's trying to strengthen there streaming service.If they can even get it to work. Disney and technology have never been friends.
Technology in general or specifically to streaming?
In general. They were a decade late to computerize internally, they were still on 1970s mainframes well into the 1990s, they can't make software or outsource software to save their lives, they are famous for being antiquated and backwards internally, even their resorts were a decade late at getting wifi.
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Oh, and Disney didn't have its own URL for like 15 years. They were the last large company to have a web presence for their company.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/business/media/disney-fox-deal.html
Disney's trying to strengthen there streaming service.If they can even get it to work. Disney and technology have never been friends.
Technology in general or specifically to streaming?
In general. They were a decade late to computerize internally, they were still on 1970s mainframes well into the 1990s, they can't make software or outsource software to save their lives, they are famous for being antiquated and backwards internally, even their resorts were a decade late at getting wifi.
What would you expect from a company founded by a xenophobic, racist, anti-semite f@ckbag? Walt Disney wasn't exactly forward thinking, not sure why you think the filthy profit whore of a company he left behind would be.
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To all the decision makers at Disney/Fox/NBC/CBS/TW.
If your show isnt licensed for viewing on Netflix or Prime, it doesnt exist. -
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
To all the decision makers at Disney/Fox/NBC/CBS/TW.
If your show isnt licensed for viewing on Netflix or Prime, it doesnt exist.Ahem...... Kodi.
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@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
To all the decision makers at Disney/Fox/NBC/CBS/TW.
If your show isnt licensed for viewing on Netflix or Prime, it doesnt exist.that is certainly @scottalanmiller's POV.
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@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
To all the decision makers at Disney/Fox/NBC/CBS/TW.
If your show isnt licensed for viewing on Netflix or Prime, it doesnt exist.You can add the BBC to that list. Its like nothing exists outside of the UK for the BBC.
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@rojoloco That's illegal.
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@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@rojoloco That's illegal.
Disclaimer: Kodi is not for doing anything illegal, and I certainly wouldn't ever use it for any illegal purposes. But I do watch whatever I want.
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@rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@rojoloco That's illegal.
Disclaimer: Kodi is not for doing anything illegal, and I certainly wouldn't ever use it for any illegal purposes. But I do watch whatever I want
that's legal.FTFY
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@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@rojoloco That's illegal.
Kodi clearly has a bad rap like Napster did. Napster could be used for legal things, definitely, the reality is that it rarely was use for legal means.
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@rojoloco That's illegal.
Kodi clearly has a bad rap like Napster did. Napster could be used for legal things, definitely, the reality is that it rarely was use for legal means.
Before I setup a Plex server at home, I used Kodi to connect to a shared folder on my Windows desktop that contained all of my digitized DVD collection.
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@rojoloco That's illegal.
Kodi clearly has a bad rap like Napster did. Napster could be used for legal things, definitely, the reality is that it rarely was use for legal means.
Just about everything illegally done electronically is done on Windows and Linux... should we all stop using those too?
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
To all the decision makers at Disney/Fox/NBC/CBS/TW.
If your show isnt licensed for viewing on Netflix or Prime, it doesnt exist.that is certainly @scottalanmiller's POV.
Indeed.
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@rojoloco That's illegal.
Kodi clearly has a bad rap like Napster did. Napster could be used for legal things, definitely, the reality is that it rarely was use for legal means.
Yeah, but Napster sucked in general, lol. Kodi is actually useful for legal things and most people I know only know of it in legal contexts.
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@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@rojoloco That's illegal.
Kodi clearly has a bad rap like Napster did. Napster could be used for legal things, definitely, the reality is that it rarely was use for legal means.
Just about everything illegally done electronically is done on Windows and Linux... should we all stop using those too?
Those systems were used for legal things long before the illegal things - so they've become known in a positive light. Napster and Kodi became known to the public mainly because of their illegal usability...
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@rojoloco That's illegal.
Kodi clearly has a bad rap like Napster did. Napster could be used for legal things, definitely, the reality is that it rarely was use for legal means.
Just about everything illegally done electronically is done on Windows and Linux... should we all stop using those too?
Those systems were used for legal things long before the illegal things - so they've become known in a positive light. Napster and Kodi became known to the public mainly because of their illegal usability...
The firestick as well.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@rojoloco That's illegal.
Kodi clearly has a bad rap like Napster did. Napster could be used for legal things, definitely, the reality is that it rarely was use for legal means.
Yeah, but Napster sucked in general, lol. Kodi is actually useful for legal things and most people I know only know of it in legal contexts.
Well other than @RojoLoco and @JaredBusch those I know that use it (that I know that they use it) only use it for illegal things.
I've never used it.
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@rojoloco That's illegal.
Kodi clearly has a bad rap like Napster did. Napster could be used for legal things, definitely, the reality is that it rarely was use for legal means.
Just about everything illegally done electronically is done on Windows and Linux... should we all stop using those too?
Those systems were used for legal things long before the illegal things - so they've become known in a positive light. Napster and Kodi became known to the public mainly because of their illegal usability...
The firestick as well.
After I heard about Kodi - using it on a firestick was the only association I have here. Out of the box, a firestick doesn't make doing illegal things easy.
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@rojoloco That's illegal.
Kodi clearly has a bad rap like Napster did. Napster could be used for legal things, definitely, the reality is that it rarely was use for legal means.
Just about everything illegally done electronically is done on Windows and Linux... should we all stop using those too?
Those systems were used for legal things long before the illegal things - so they've become known in a positive light. Napster and Kodi became known to the public mainly because of their illegal usability...
I've only heard that here.
