we live in hell

I don’t even understand the pitch? you have the disc playing, in your hands, your ownership, no buffering, no subscription required. and they’re saying…hey do you want a worse experience?

  • gentooerEnglish
    193·
    11 months ago

    Would it be possible to argue that this is copyright infringement? They’re basically screencapping copyrighted content at a shitty framerate and distributing it over the internet.

    • Chee_Koala@lemmy.worldEnglish
      381·
      11 months ago

      Whooops! You accidentally thought that companies have to follow the same rules as civies, silly you!

    • KogasaEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      They’re not distributing it. They’re taking a screenshot, identifying the content, and transmitting hashed and aggregated data. Even if they were transmitting screenshots, they’d be transmitting it to their own systems to be hashed and analyzed, not watched.

    • casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      No, see my comment to FlyingSquid about how I assume things work under the hood. The only logical design choice I can imagine is that a hash of the content snapshot is being computed locally, and only the hash is transmitted.

    • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      You agreed to it when you set up the device. It should be illegal to have incredibly obtuse and impossible to read T&C, they should make it abundantly clear exactly how much of your personal information is being given away, but unfortunately it’s legal to just have a little checkbox that lets you lie about reading them.