…Cool sticker, awful opinion

I call this comment, the “58008’s Wild Ride”

It’s better, because here the underlying pacing isn’t left ruined after the removal.

Removing the laugh track leaves behind (hilariously) awkward gaps.

Titty :D

Sure, no objections there

So, to condense the article:

Opinion:

Lol

A record of records

… Would

Holy shit this was good

Oh no. I guess the only reasonable response is to bomb another children’s hospital.

The Guardian has dropped the ball a bunch of times.

A non-name media org is less likely to be a target for rich fucks who want to pay to push their agenda through a big, recognizable, reputable source.

The bigger the organisation, the greater the chances it will be corrupted, in ways big and small, by rich fucks.

No longer a mathematical problem, but determine the largest piece that can be removed, before it becomes apparent to onlookers that the leftover pizza has been tampered with.

… Yeah it is 🫠🥲

In literal terms it translates to “before-the-road” (pro - drómou)

(this literal translation includes the ambiguity of before- as in ‘temporally before’, or before- as in ‘in front of’)

So any way you slice it, it’s pretty ironic.

“Prodromou” is a Greek surname, with the rough meaning “the one who walks the road before others”.

So him being “a visionary” is fun, lol

Your astroturfing reads so strongly like sarcasm I almost upvoted.

I honestly thought “There’s no way anyone, paid or brainwashed, would post such a thing and mean it”.

The political blockading 5 years ago was sobering news.

This is watching a really, really, really big train crash, after knowing for minutes that the driver was accelerating on purpose.

This was predicted and expected.

A “truly small” creator, would get , I dunno, let’s say 5% of Disney’s marketed sales, after being stolen from, from being known as the guy Disney stole from. Which would be enormously more than if he only had his “truly small” marketing.

A more successful and known creator, who would market himself more broadly on his own, would not be easy to steal from, since it would be quick enough for the stealing to be found out, to dampen Disney sales.

And all this, ignores the paradigm shift in monetisation (Uniquenameosaurus YouTube video), that could enhance this process immensely, and allow artist creativity to flourish even more, without even leaving the diseased economical rules of capitalism.

Disney wins in that scenario, because they have more resources to spend on getting their media out there.

As… Opposed to now?

If Disney does plagiarize small artists’ work, and becomes known for it, they take a reputation hit, and the artist gets an explosion of exposure, as long as it is provable he made the original story. (Disney making million-dollar budget movies of your OC, isn’t even that bad for you, to be honest, but let’s assume that it doesn’t market the fuck out of your small artist story. In real life, stories are not in competition.)

If Disney doesn’t, then it’s an undeniable positive for worldwide creativity.

The only thing copyright protects, is big companies’ exclusive right to public-consciousness characters.

1. The current system doesn’t protect small writers either. Look at the amount of money plagiarism gets you, with copyright law in effect.

And

2. at the stage where you’re big enough for copyright to effectively protect you, provable publication dates take care of that problem through reputation. If you become known(read: found out) as a plagiarist, you get the boot from the public zeitgeist, never to receive public money again.

Copyright only protects the Mouse’s bottom line, and strangleholds creativity.

That’s year round.