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  • The physical media is whatever is playing the content. The law doesn’t specify the media.

    1909, one year after the Supreme Court ruling: “Your honor, I know that the Supreme Court ruled that publishers can’t add a shrink wrap license that prohibits cheap resale of copyrighted work but you see, I delivered the content on llamas where it was printed onto scrolls at the customer’s home so the law doesn’t apply. You wrote the laws thinking about trains and ships transporting books and I use neither.”






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    tech feudalism

    I use Steam but Gabe was one of the original tech feudalists.

    Valve ignores the First Sale Doctrine, a law for over a hundred years. So now instead of being able to resell your games for whatever amount you want, your games are forever under the control of Valve.









  • padme dies because she was choked half to death by her own husband

    She was talking to Obiwan afterwards. No crushed wind pipe. No explanation given other than “lost will to live”.

    and in Star Wars, the replacement parts are robotic because its way cheaper and more efficient for the average person to get Metal, which you can find anywhere honestly than recreate human tissue

    Yes, they use tech because they have no science to develop anything better. Anakin was a Jedi. He was the best of the best of the best on the capital planet of a republic of 1.3 million worlds. Cost was no object and he got a robot hand in Episode 2.

    We dont see the science perspectives

    We do see a lack of science. Your claims about the force aren’t shown in the movies. We see force powers in Trek and they are investigated and replicated.




  • I don’t know whether Gabe did this dishonestly,

    Gabe made his billions by violating the First Sale Doctrine which was ruled by the Supreme Court and passed into law over a hundred years ago.

    He was one of the original tech bros: Let’s do something illegal and add “on a computer” to the process to claim the law doesn’t apply.

    I use Steam, but I’m well aware that I used to be able to buy old video games at a huge discount before Steam sidestepped the law with “it’s not a game it’s a steam key”.