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[John Price]

Received another disturbing PM about how Twitter is losing money from leeches like me using third party tools to copy and paste tweets

yeah okay bud

By paying for it, of course. I’m sure those same developers (or different ones) will pay Elon his cut and them you can pay them their cut. It’s how apple and Samsung AppStore work, essentially.


Clearly you value it. I don’t know why you (or more broadly anyone) think you should get something for free that costs Twitter real money.



Twitter was unsustainable as a business before Elon bought it. There is no guarantees that doing things that drive revenue (at the expense of user base) will help, but users of Twitter that don’t generate revenue for Twitter are just costs.

WILL YOU STOP f***ING DEFENDING ELON

YOU BLIND STANS

HE'S NOT WORTH SIMPING OVER

 

[John Price]

i[m entitled to free information as an american and internet user

do you not understand that

it'd be like charging to use this f***ing site. where do people get off thinking you can CHARGE to discuss and read information ow.


"ain't that what a paywall is"

IT IS

AND THAT'S WHY A PAYWALL IS DUMB

"but journalists need to get paid tooz"

 

[LarryFisherman]

i[m entitled to free information as an american and internet user

do you not understand that

it'd be like charging to use this f***ing site. where do people get off thinking you can CHARGE to discuss and read information ow.


"ain't that what a paywall is"

IT IS

AND THAT'S WHY A PAYWALL IS DUMB

"but journalists need to get paid tooz"

you pay for this site daily with data farming and a bombardment of advertisements. what are you talking about?

 

[John Price]

you pay for this site daily with data farming and a bombardment of advertisements. what are you talking about?

i don't pay anything to access hfboards.mandatory.com

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

i don't pay anything to access hfboards.mandatory.com

"If you aren't paying for the product then you are the product"

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

"I'm entitled to free information," said the man who opposes piracy.

 

[John Price]

People getting me fired up this afternoon talking about unsavory topics

YOU KNOW DAMN WELL HE'S COMING BACK

"I'm entitled to free information," said the man who opposes piracy.

Accessing espn.com or cbsnews.com and reading articles isn't against the law

in fact it should be encouraged

downloading TLOU off sketchy torrents because your bum ass can't afford 15 dollars to stream HBO Max is different

And ethical issues aside why would you want to download TLOU which you would just watch and delete, instead of the ease of accessibility of the cloud where you could watch the episode LIVE like 3-4 million other people on HBO Max and commentate it live in real time on message boards.

"Let me watch TLOU 2 days after it aired, when people have already been talking about it ad nauseum on the entertainment board."

Even worse...LET ME WAIT like a day or overnight just to be ABLE to torrent the thing.











(as I have an unauthorized website of Pokemon season 7 open on a firefox tab)

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

Accessing espn.com or cbsnews.com and reading articles isn't against the law

in fact it should be encouraged

downloading TLOU off sketchy torrents because your bum ass can't afford 15 dollars to stream HBO Max is different

Seeing as some websites rely on advertisements, using an ad-blocker is technically stealing a website.

You're using something to circumvent the typical "fee" that everyone pays, that's stealing.

Piracy is a crime, but it's a crime I'm willing to commit because I don't fear the repercussions.

 

[John Price]

You: Let me download TLOU Episode 3 to my plex server
Me: Let me auto-log into HBO Max and watch TLOU Episode 3 the second it airs online

Piracy is a crime, but it's a crime I'm willing to commit because I don't fear the repercussions.

Piracy also leads to you being seriously behind everyone else by at least a day, if we're being honest

Given how fast the internet spoils things (me included in that category) it's probably smart to watch episodes ASAP

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

Piracy also leads to you being seriously behind everyone else by at least a day, if we're being honest

Given how fast the internet spoils things (me included in that category) it's probably smart to watch episodes ASAP

 

[John Price]

that's your prerogative but i pay 15 dollars a month to be able to post first about the episode on the entertainment section

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

"It's so hard to avoid spoilers"

Maybe get off the damn computer and go outside more often

 

[John Price]

you can talk about piracy all you want but hbo max is one of the few streaming services WORTH paying for.

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

that's your prerogative but i pay 15 dollars a month to be able to post first about the episode on the entertainment section

 

[John Price]

"It's so hard to avoid spoilers"

Maybe get off the damn computer and go outside more often

95% of my non-hockey / baseball / football life is spent indoors

i have an inferiority complex

i must be first

Episode finishes airing around 10 EST and there are already 3-4 comments from me about the episode

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

you can talk about piracy all you want but hbo max is one of the few streaming services WORTH paying for.

Paying for, lirl, I have access from my dad.

Still had to pirate the episode the other day because we wanted to watch it in the bedroom and we don't have HBO Max on that TV

 

[John Price]

Paying for, lirl, I have access from my dad.

Still had to pirate the episode the other day because we wanted to watch it in the bedroom and we don't have HBO Max on that TV

i see

you see netflix cracking down on password sharing. so stupid.

"IT'S THEIR RIGHT AS A BUSINESS TO DO WHAT'S GOOD FOR BUSINESS."

your defenses of twitter cutting down free API sound like Triple H and corporate kane lol

 

[Oogie Boogie]

I like Discovery+

 

[John Price]

I like Discovery+

i'm just waiting for it to merge with hbo max then i will watch all the d+ shows

 

[John Price]

why are you playing dead space on a tv

i'm playin git on my standing pc but as prev stated it is uncomfortable to use my standing pc so i can't use it for long periods of time

what's the point

 

[Oogie Boogie]

why are you playing dead space on a tv

i'm playin git on my standing pc but as prev stated it is uncomfortable to use my standing pc so i can't use it for long periods of time

what's the point

Because I was able to get it cheaper on my PS5! It still looks and runs great.

 

[John Price]

Hockey team won't play here until Super Bowl Sunday and the basketball team won't play here until Wednesday of next week leaving a LOT of time for me to spend at home doing who knows what

Would be nice to leave the house and see a daggum game for once lol

Because I was able to get it cheaper on my PS5! It still looks and runs great.

i got it for free on pc

 

[John Price]

well technically no, but i did pay 100 dollars a year to download madden / fifa / dead space /jedi survivor / sims 4

 

[John Price]

@PanthersPens62 will you be going to fla live arena for the all star game

At least go to the free fan fest during the week to pick me up some free giveaways

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2:30 PMAleksander Barkov (Florida Panthers)Autograph Cove

 

[John Price]

Oh but keep talking about how Twitter stopping the free API is good