I have no problem paying for content, I pay for Spotify and video games, but I refuse to pay for video until company delivers a non-DRMed video file to my hard drive that I can watch where and how I want.
Piracy is a service problem, as Gaben says so it is.
My TV provider allowes me to store up to 2000 hours high definition TV in the cloud.
Combined with 6 movie channels, which show virtually every movie synchronized and in its original language[0] version without ad interruption this setup works for me.
[0] Granted, the original version wasn't too helpful in watching Parasite, which I had to enjoy in the German dub.
I cancelled nearly all my subscriptions and set up an old notebook at home with Jellyfin and qBittorent + search plugins. Pretty simple and satisfies my needs.
There are lots of decent signals out there if someone did want to track it: standard site/search term tracking, the number of leechers of torrents, activity in pirate subreddits/discords, installs of Jellyfin/Plex servers etc.
FWIW I can't say I have noticed any radical increase in popularity. The number of Leechers on the most popular piratebay torrents are only in the 100s so I assume it's very niche. I suspect that "playing an .mkv file" is already too technical/clunky for much of the public compared to using streaming app. Let alone setting up a seedbox and media server behind a VPN or whatever for the best experience.
I think (from my and my friend's behavior), that a lot of movie streaming has moved away from torrents and onto free streaming sites. There's no longer any reason to download a movie you're going to watch once, and it's harder for ISPs to track you down.
Anecdotally, I've found myself doing it again. I used to when I was young, but totally stopped up until about a year ago. Illegal streaming sites have become impressively good. Better UX than Netflix.
- "set the wallpaper as the small-sized version of the photo"
Should be the hd image. I'll investigate it and hopefully fix it soon!
- "How can I quit the app ?"
cmd+q when the popup is opened. Right-click the menu icon is definitely a very good suggestion! I'll implement it.
- "The textarea doesn't support mouse wheel scroll."
If you tap "Read more", it will allow you to scroll. There's a known bug that shows the scroll indicator when the textarea is minimized though. I'm working on it.
- make of sender/receiver devices:
iPhone XR (sender, iOS 13.2.3), receiver (LG G7, Android ??)
- carrier service of sender/receiver:
Fizz (sender), Koodo (receiver)
-geographic region of sender/receiver:
Québec (Canada)
-the exact text that was sent:
secure communication lower case.
We tested a message before "test", it was received. Then tested "secure communication" (it was blocked). Finally, I tested another "test" message and it was correctly received.
If it's real, this is a real problem. Having the chance to live in Canada, I've never felt the feelings of being censored. First time and it makes me feel very weird.
I don't want to be the conspiracy guy, but if I read the email the opposite way, I found out that the message is the sabotage first (yes), but the second point about ramping up the production to 5k is the second subject. I'm asking the question if this email could be a stunt to inform the investors their production state, to inform about the delays, etc. ? Simply wondering.
I very often notice how Musk will write or tweet in an ambiguous enough way that most people will read different messages out of him.
My own speculation is that he does this intentionally not to lie, but to catch people out with "gotchas". It's a hedge against both failure and success.
I caution against over-interpreting anything he says until the details are made very specific.
An aside for example, one time I told a customer "I'll see what I can do" - what they heard though was closer to "ok I'll sort it out for you", and weren't too pleased when later on we weren't able to resolve it in time for them.
Sorry it bugged you! I learned when showing this to people that not everyone focuses their eyes on the same part of the screen, and so the focusing thing might not align to where you like to read.
I needed some way to make it clear which "step" the user is on, since the stuff the waveform does changes from step to step.
Open to suggestions for future audio things I do if you have ideas for how to align them without faded text!
