Oooo, that happens and I’d make it a point to contact the manufacturer/creator of said advertised product or service and politely inform them that because of the interruption of MY TIME, while relxing in a game, I will now never, ever consider their company, goods or services.

Make it formal, concise and final and if possible send it to the CEO. You want that one to come down on the head of whomever decided to insert themselves into a player’s game - get them in trouble with the boss - with a vengeance.

It often works.

Heaven only knows. Welles died decades before youtube.

Which Ninja is he referring to? The guy in Die Antwoord?

So many questions.

My public library still checks out DVDs. Some titles are blu-rays even. Get an optical drive and rip away. For free.

Yeaaahhh. That’s how you keep customers isn’t it?

Honestly? Take a small business accounting class and bone up on the tax code (which is more common sense than people think - I do my own taxes and have for decades… it’s pretty easy once you work it out) that relates to it and become a CPA.

THAT one will always be needed because people that run businesses often have the lousiest head when it comes to the numbers.

Done right, you won’t be in any situation that demands too much physicality so if your not as mobile as you’d want, you can stil work.

This. Totally this. Illicit recording of live broadcast radio performances of black jazz and blues artists in the 20’s and 30’s was how the major labels got their coffers large enough to start to change laws to protect them from others doing what they did to those original musicians.

The copyright enforcement laws came into place once they’d established themselves by breaking copyrights.

Utter cunts.

To be honest, this has always kinda been how the conservatives in the US talk when they’re by themselves. I grew up in the 70s and heard it quite often from uptight assholes on the right.

It’s not anything new, really. It’s just that today the communications, instead of being face to face, are online and they leave records of their conversations.

Bigoted jackasses, gonna jackass.