Speaker 1: Arned arn me arties. This is me doing a priorate voice,
Speaker 1: which is kind of a bad a bad Irish voice.
Speaker 1: That's enough. That's enough of that. Um, Hi, welcome to
Speaker 1: take it up in here the show where we're talking
Speaker 1: about things that could possibly happen and or are happening,
Speaker 1: and go your hartshitally D. I'm Carrison. Welcome to this
Speaker 1: tech centric episode. This is very exciting with me, is
Speaker 1: Chris to help us discuss libraries and piracy or permanently
Speaker 1: pirate brained and and paywalls and all this all this
Speaker 1: fun stuff. So yeah, we're talking about kind of free
Speaker 1: access to information and uh, I don't know, like I
Speaker 1: really like libraries and I think a library based economy
Speaker 1: would be pretty cool. Yeah, you know, libraries for everything. Uh,
Speaker 1: food libraries you to take food, you know, deposit compost
Speaker 1: um with the decent system. Got the tool libraries so
Speaker 1: you can get you know, your angle grinders for taking
Speaker 1: apart federal fences. You can get your you know, soldering
Speaker 1: irons for building your f GC nines, you know, all
Speaker 1: all of all of the basic stuff. And I guess
Speaker 1: book libraries are cool too, um, but we already have
Speaker 1: those and we're gonna be we're gonna be talking about
Speaker 1: them a little bit. Where are we having a discussion
Speaker 1: on paywalls, piracy, ar and uh and how access to
Speaker 1: information is actually good? Um, contrary to what many people
Speaker 1: want to tell you. Yeah, I know. So. Yeah. As
Speaker 1: as the Internet became easier to access and information flow accelerated,
Speaker 1: there's been kind of questions and speculation on how physical
Speaker 1: book libraries will fit into our increasingly digital media landscape. Now,
Speaker 1: it's important to mention that the library is also one
Speaker 1: of the main ways for lower income people to access
Speaker 1: the internet, um, with their you know collection of free
Speaker 1: to use computers as well as you know, a decent
Speaker 1: WiFi connection um. And many many libraries also are expanding
Speaker 1: their scope to include stuff like maker spaces as well
Speaker 1: as you know, their printers and standard kind of office supplies.
Speaker 1: So libraries are already kind of beyond just places to
Speaker 1: get printed media. But of course it is that is
Speaker 1: kind of their one that has been their main their
Speaker 1: main premise. But you know, they've been they've been including
Speaker 1: stuff regarding e books, computer use, WiFi access, all the
Speaker 1: stuff has been a part of libraries for like the
Speaker 1: past years. Um. Yeah, like it's it's not. It's not.
Speaker 1: It's not, it's not. It's not a new thing. But
Speaker 1: I think when when people think of libraries, we just
Speaker 1: think of books are newspapers and stuff, but it is,
Speaker 1: it is definitely more than that. Because yeah, obviously physical
Speaker 1: libraries are mostly known for printing materials, and because we'll
Speaker 1: be talking about pay walls and piracy are um and
Speaker 1: and fears that access to free content will negatively impact
Speaker 1: creator's ability to make such content, I figured let's start
Speaker 1: by talking about book libraries, since they're one of the
Speaker 1: oldest examples of providing information for free. So based on
Speaker 1: kind of surveys and data collected from you from library
Speaker 1: users across the country, it would seem that libraries and
Speaker 1: loaned e books are actually a very powerful economic engine
Speaker 1: for the book business. Now, yes, libraries do have special
Speaker 1: deals to buy the books that they have in stock,
Speaker 1: sometimes they're donated. But even beyond that fact, like library users,
Speaker 1: like the fact that libraries exist for the users, either
Speaker 1: of themselves increase book sales. Um, it's it's a it's
Speaker 1: it's pretty fun. So even as far back as there's
Speaker 1: been studies that show that libraries do increase book sales,
Speaker 1: now yes, this is this is this is a capitalist argument,
Speaker 1: but sometimes when arguing with let's you know, let's call
Speaker 1: them normis um, you can convince them to agree with
Speaker 1: a lot of kind of like anarchy leaning improvements to
Speaker 1: the world by carefully using their own rhetoric against them. Right,
Speaker 1: this is this is like the same thing with the
Speaker 1: giving out free drugs and having safe drug in like
Speaker 1: intake sites, and giving your houses to homeless people, you know,
Speaker 1: all all the type of stuff. You know, all of
Speaker 1: those things are cheaper for the taxpayer than what we're
Speaker 1: currently doing with how we use emergencies, like how for
Speaker 1: how we use emergency services spending. So yes, it's a
Speaker 1: capitalist argument, but you can still kind of you know,
Speaker 1: paint someone into a corner to to agree to like
Speaker 1: actual good improvements by using hey, this is actually cheaper,
Speaker 1: you know that that type of argument. So yeah, libraries,
Speaker 1: they do increase book sales, so that is mostly cool.
Speaker 1: There is There was a study that shows around this
Speaker 1: is studying around showed that library users report purchasing books
Speaker 1: by an author that they were introduced to through the
Speaker 1: library system, which debunks the myth that were a library bias.
Speaker 1: Books the publisher will lose future sales. Um. Instead, it
Speaker 1: confirms that the public library does not only incubate and
Speaker 1: support literacy as it's you know, generally understood in our culture,
Speaker 1: but it's also an active partner with the publishing industry
Speaker 1: for building up the book market and also including in
Speaker 1: that is the ever growing e book market, which I
Speaker 1: don't really like the books for reasons will kind of
Speaker 1: discuss in a bit for how I kind of have
Speaker 1: an aversion to the idea of like a digital ownership,
Speaker 1: but the books are undeniably a very growing industry that
Speaker 1: also you know, does does support writers in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways. Um, But I think physical books are a
Speaker 1: lot cooler and more reliable. They are, as you can
Speaker 1: tell by my very nice physical book collection behind me,
Speaker 1: which you cannot listen to because this is a podcast
Speaker 1: and you can't listen with your ears unless you're on
Speaker 1: a lot of drugs, which good luck hearing the books
Speaker 1: behind me. People who listen to Yeah you too, but
Speaker 1: yeah I'm not. I'm not talking about them. Um, this
Speaker 1: is an anti people who have jug induced citnothesia podcast. Now,
Speaker 1: lucky bastards going to get canceled. Oh sure, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what's gonna get me after all, Well bleep that I
Speaker 1: can't you said that, whoa Chris just said one of
Speaker 1: the just one of the most one of the most
Speaker 1: one of the most horrible authors that I would never
Speaker 1: be caught dead reading any of their books. Um anyway. Ah, So,
Speaker 1: the idea that like piracy and free information will like
Speaker 1: tank creative industries, and you know, the idea that you know,
Speaker 1: just having access to free versions of media will hurt
Speaker 1: the ability to make more of the media is definitely
Speaker 1: proven wrong simply by the modern existence and popularity of
Speaker 1: nu may uh in the United States, because we would
Speaker 1: not have anime animal will not be what it is
Speaker 1: today without piracy. Uh and uh because in the in
Speaker 1: the specifically like two thousand's late nineties, the piracy of
Speaker 1: anime became you know, big, a massive reason why it
Speaker 1: is the cultural jugg or not that it is today.
Speaker 1: Over half of anime related sales revenue comes from overseas,
Speaker 1: not not Japan, comes from places like the States. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, and it's also I think worth mentioning here,
Speaker 1: like it wasn't even just that they were like pirating
Speaker 1: the show, right, they were pirating they were getting a
Speaker 1: worse version of it, oh because like you know, relution, Yeah,
Speaker 1: terrible resolutions like I mean literally like VCRs that people
Speaker 1: had figured out how to like right like get subtitles on.
Speaker 1: Like these versions of it are terrible. The translations are awful,
Speaker 1: and it's still just like absolutely like just catapulted anime
Speaker 1: from like an incredibly fringed thing for weirdos to a
Speaker 1: thing that is also still for weirdos. But it's still
Speaker 1: a nargely mainstream. Yeah, I'm gonna gonna take take this
Speaker 1: opportunity to plug our future episode dissecting the politics of
Speaker 1: attack on tited dot dot do. It's coming, folks, It's
Speaker 1: strap in. So yes, what not would not be the
Speaker 1: thing is today without without without privacy And again but
Speaker 1: the majority of of sales revenue comes from not Japan.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's a pretty pretty pretty clear. So
Speaker 1: the discovery of new books and authors through the library
Speaker 1: system um is definitely searching right now, actually specifically due
Speaker 1: to e books and audiobooks being available online anytime well
Speaker 1: like via library means. So there's like you know, there's
Speaker 1: there's ways you can access you can quote unquote borrow
Speaker 1: these types of things via via the library systems. Despite
Speaker 1: them being like digital media, which again I prefer physical,
Speaker 1: but that's that's something we'll talk about later. So even
Speaker 1: even while visits to libraries and like physical bookstores, A
Speaker 1: pommeted during COVID nineteen digital library usage sword which is
Speaker 1: you know that that that that that that tracks um
Speaker 1: more than four hundred and thirty million type were borrowed
Speaker 1: from the overdrive library platform alone, and it would you know,
Speaker 1: you could you could assume that this would cause a
Speaker 1: drop in the purchasing of books during the same period,
Speaker 1: but the opposite is true. Actually, the overall purchasing of
Speaker 1: books also rose in including an eight percent lift in
Speaker 1: these sales of print books, despite a lot of people
Speaker 1: being out of jobs, out of work. You know that
Speaker 1: turns out people are boards They're going to spend money
Speaker 1: on books because books are cool, and even when they
Speaker 1: have access to library stuff, they still buy books. Yep,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a simple truth that the
Speaker 1: library patrons are usually also book buyers. It's it's me
Speaker 1: I am literally surrounded by books on all sides that
Speaker 1: they have me surrounded. I have no escape. And this
Speaker 1: is what happens when you grow up in a library
Speaker 1: I mean I also grew up in a library. Mean
Speaker 1: I was, I was homeschooled. I grew up time a library.
Speaker 1: To my to, to my left, I have books on
Speaker 1: urban exploration and Lemony Snicket. My right, I have books
Speaker 1: on alchemy. Behind me, I have books which I should
Speaker 1: I'll not name um. And behind me I have a
Speaker 1: massive techo comic books of yeah, I have usually surrounded
Speaker 1: by books. It's the books are great and you you
Speaker 1: have them unless they burn up. You're gonna have them,
Speaker 1: no matter whether the Internet goes out, whether whether an
Speaker 1: online provider shuts down, You're gonna You're gonna have physical books.
Speaker 1: They are they are, they are pretty, they're pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So and libraries and like, the library system offers a
Speaker 1: really great way to discover new books, new series, new genres,
Speaker 1: or new authors before deciding whether to permanently purchase those titles.
Speaker 1: So it's it's this isn't just like an assumption used
Speaker 1: to hype up the idea of a library. This has
Speaker 1: been proven by lots of studies like the why I
Speaker 1: mentioned a few minutes ago from two US and eleven M. Also,
Speaker 1: there was the Panorama Projects Immersive Media and Books Consumer
Speaker 1: Survey which is a way too long. The title real Mouthful,
Speaker 1: which found that one third of responders a book that
Speaker 1: they discovered through the library. So it turns out you
Speaker 1: you discover a book, you turn it and you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: that book is actually pretty good. All this by a
Speaker 1: copy myself. I did that. I still do that all
Speaker 1: the time. It's ah, yeah, it's it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a thing. So own all Star Wars books. This is
Speaker 1: why I have a beautiful copy of Splinter in the
Speaker 1: Mind's Eye, which I am very curious to see. Who
Speaker 1: will get that joke. I was try I was trying
Speaker 1: to think of the worst Star worst book that I have,
Speaker 1: and then you said that, I'm like, I can't. I
Speaker 1: think I actually have that. Well, there I go, there's
Speaker 1: there's two. There's two for you. Uh yeah. So in
Speaker 1: our kind of in our like technology driven world of
Speaker 1: like you know, wanting things very quickly, you know, instant
Speaker 1: instant gratification. UM, library users are no different. Right, They
Speaker 1: still have that instant gratification drive and many times they
Speaker 1: will want a specific book and they'll be happy to
Speaker 1: pay for it instead of waiting for at the library. Right,
Speaker 1: you can put a book on hold, await a month,
Speaker 1: or you can buy it for ten bucks. And oftentimes
Speaker 1: people will buy the book because we want things quickly.
Speaker 1: It's According to the same Panorama Project immers of the
Speaker 1: Media and Books consumer survey, about of respondents said that
Speaker 1: they just bought books rather than waiting for them if
Speaker 1: they are unavailable from from the library at the time.
Speaker 1: So and it's it's it's a great system like libraries
Speaker 1: are also frequently used just as like a really good
Speaker 1: browsing tool. Um. You know, if you're unsure of what
Speaker 1: you want to read next, you can go to the library,
Speaker 1: look at stuff and be like, Okay, this is what
Speaker 1: I'm interested in, and then purchase it online or in
Speaker 1: person at a later date. And it's not just it's
Speaker 1: not not not not just physical books. Library users are
Speaker 1: also are also driving the purchase e books and physical
Speaker 1: books um and audio books. Audio books have been actually
Speaker 1: very big at library. I used to listen to a
Speaker 1: lot of audio books actually from the library because I
Speaker 1: would get c d s back when those great for
Speaker 1: road trips, back in the old days when you had
Speaker 1: a c D I say with my gen z uh
Speaker 1: um outlook yes, uh c d S classic classic. According
Speaker 1: to the Audio Publishers Association, also known as the a
Speaker 1: P A just acronym, daily audio consumption has grown seventy
Speaker 1: one sin, which is not surprising me. Like there's there's
Speaker 1: there's stuff like Audible and you know, big big platforms
Speaker 1: that are are making high quality audiobook content. Uh, but
Speaker 1: that's that's that's a lot in alone. Audiobook revenue grew
Speaker 1: by sevent even though even though the number of people
Speaker 1: who were commuting plummeted, right because a lot of people
Speaker 1: listen to audiobooks while like driving to work. So the
Speaker 1: number of you know, of commuting dropped in because there
Speaker 1: was this plague. I'm not sure if you've heard about that,
Speaker 1: but they still hasn't, so you know that's true. They're
Speaker 1: pretending it's not real. But if yeah, if if if
Speaker 1: if you look at most if you look at you know,
Speaker 1: the the audiobook revenue, it grew despite their being much
Speaker 1: less much less um much less work commuting. And that
Speaker 1: was the eighth straight year of double of double digit
Speaker 1: growth in the audiobook revenue sector. And it aligns with
Speaker 1: other kind of digital library usage statistics. So yeah, like
Speaker 1: libraries and booksellers will they work in tandem. They they
Speaker 1: library's drive interest for content both physical and digital. You know,
Speaker 1: rising tide races, all all of those floaty things on
Speaker 1: the water, um as the saying goes are that's a
Speaker 1: piracy joke, everybody. Yeah, over Drive has found that when
Speaker 1: a reader uses one or more digital library apps like
Speaker 1: a Libby I've never heard of until I had to
Speaker 1: research in this podcast. But once you if you use
Speaker 1: more than one one or more digital digital library apps
Speaker 1: you're sixty, you are more likely to increase your book
Speaker 1: consumption year over year versus people who do not. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it turns out when you read more books, you want
Speaker 1: to read more books because it's fun. It's fun. So
Speaker 1: instead of instead of reading a book, I'm going to
Speaker 1: give our audio listeners an opportunity right now to listen
Speaker 1: to this carefully curated selection of ads unless they're by
Speaker 1: like I don't know, the National Guard or whatever. So
Speaker 1: here you go. Here's here's some ads, and we are back.
Speaker 1: What a lovely, lovely collection of audio treats to tickle
Speaker 1: your ears. Okay you're God speaking speaking of tickling your
Speaker 1: ears Sonic the Hedgehog. So a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: out of the reasons why we're gonna so this this,
Speaker 1: this will make sense, I promise. Um, we're about to
Speaker 1: talk about fly genetics for SSH Sonic Hedgehog. We're talking
Speaker 1: about how like when people are allowed to like do
Speaker 1: piracy and allowed to do like their own things with media,
Speaker 1: it actually boosts the overall kind of like the presence
Speaker 1: of the franchise. Right, So, Sonic the Hedgehog would not
Speaker 1: be a current cultural steak if it wasn't for fan
Speaker 1: culture and the use of like fan games and fan
Speaker 1: media related to Sonic. So the same thing was like anime, right, Um,
Speaker 1: you know Sonic Sonic fan games which were allowed to
Speaker 1: be existed for years, which they get encouraged, are the
Speaker 1: only reason why there's a good Sonic games right now,
Speaker 1: like Sonic Mania, which were just they just hired people
Speaker 1: who made fan games. Um, the person who redesigned Sonic
Speaker 1: the Hedgehog for the movie what used to make Sonic
Speaker 1: fan comics and then got hired to make the actual
Speaker 1: official Sonic comics. Then they got hired to fix them.
Speaker 1: They got hired to fix the horrible movie design. So yeah, said,
Speaker 1: it has been very good about like not being horrible
Speaker 1: about like copyright stuff and trademark stuff. They've like really
Speaker 1: encouraged it because it turns out when you when you
Speaker 1: yourself don't make good games, you need to rely on
Speaker 1: fans to actually make the good games so we get
Speaker 1: So that's where you get beautiful creations like the Sonic
Speaker 1: Dreams Collection, which is a heartwarming, nostalgic look at Sonic
Speaker 1: through the Ages um and other great games like Sonic
Speaker 1: Mania which, so you can compare this to like a
Speaker 1: Nintendo who unfortunately makes good games um, but also hates
Speaker 1: when fans make games or do like emulation or any
Speaker 1: like ports. They will clamp down on that so fast.
Speaker 1: If you ever emulate a Nintendo game, you know, watch
Speaker 1: watch your back, there will be there will be men
Speaker 1: in black suits following you around, just like do you
Speaker 1: understanding of like how far this goes? Right? So super
Speaker 1: Smash pros and bile. This game is like maybe older
Speaker 1: than Garrison. It is, I think I actually don't know
Speaker 1: what that trude, but yeah, literally old and Garrison, right,
Speaker 1: this game has a still still to this day, Like
Speaker 1: copies of this game are extremely expensive because there's an
Speaker 1: enormous professional scene around it. Uh. Nintendo like basically was
Speaker 1: working to actively smash them because they were they were
Speaker 1: playing a Yeah, yeah, because they because they were playing
Speaker 1: on like an emulated like they're playing an emulated version
Speaker 1: of it for the tournaments because it emulated software. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And Nintendo again, who is literally getting like millions of
Speaker 1: views of completely free good publicity, was like, no, we
Speaker 1: hate you, Nintendo will when people use they're they're like
Speaker 1: their their content and stuff in ways that are not
Speaker 1: not not official. And because they make decent games, they
Speaker 1: can actually get away with that. Um Sega, that's not
Speaker 1: make decent games that are questioning, so they have to
Speaker 1: rely on fans doing that. But yeah, that's the reason
Speaker 1: why Sonic is still a thing, just because fans have
Speaker 1: have been able to you know, through through piracy, through emulation,
Speaker 1: through creating, through ucing like Sonic code to code their
Speaker 1: own games all staffs. Is the reason why that's still
Speaker 1: like a cultural staple that is releasing a new movie
Speaker 1: next month. But I'm very excited about very excited about
Speaker 1: Sonic the head shog too. It's gonna be, It's gonna be.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, I'm thinking it could we could finally clamp
Speaker 1: down on the video game Oscar this time. I feel it. Well,
Speaker 1: that's that's look this is this this, this is just
Speaker 1: because Ace Attorney got robbed. Okay, createst movie of all time?
Speaker 1: That is That is my little side bit about about
Speaker 1: about about sega. Um. Oh yeah, I should also briefly
Speaker 1: mentioned that Nintendo just like put literally put a guy
Speaker 1: in prison for helping for helping jailbrate consoles like put
Speaker 1: put a man in prison for this for modifying people's
Speaker 1: software and a game console. I guess the other thing
Speaker 1: I'll talk about is, like, I mean, part of the
Speaker 1: reason why I really don't like digital ordership of media
Speaker 1: is because you don't actually own the thing. You own
Speaker 1: a license to use the content as long as the
Speaker 1: online services active. So even if you buy a game
Speaker 1: on you know, the Nintendo Switch store, you're not actually
Speaker 1: buying the game. You're buying a license to use the game.
Speaker 1: But the same thing for whether you're buying media on
Speaker 1: like Amazon Prime, right, it's it's it's it's the same
Speaker 1: thing if you're if you're buying digital copy of it,
Speaker 1: it's a license to use it, so you can take
Speaker 1: you know, what Nintendo has done a few years ago
Speaker 1: is they shut down the u we Shop channel, which
Speaker 1: means if you bought a game and it wasn't creanty downloaded.
Speaker 1: You can now you've just it's gone. You just cannot
Speaker 1: you cannot play it anymore because they just completely took
Speaker 1: service down, so you don't actually you're not you're not
Speaker 1: actually buying the thing. You're just buying a license to
Speaker 1: use the thing. Now. They did the same thing a
Speaker 1: few months ago for the w U Shop channel and
Speaker 1: the three D S channel. So yeah, rip ripped to that.
Speaker 1: If you if you, if you have, if you bought
Speaker 1: games on there that we're not currently running, then you
Speaker 1: cannot get them anymore. They're just gone, like you can,
Speaker 1: they're just lost, lost of time. Well and you know,
Speaker 1: and again if if you if you modified the software
Speaker 1: the game console that you like nominally own in order
Speaker 1: to play the games that you bought and paid for,
Speaker 1: they will throw you in prison. Nintendo will send men
Speaker 1: in suits to come and get you and throw you
Speaker 1: in the prison. Yeah. Who he it's a it's a Mario.
Speaker 1: It's a Mario joke, everybody. Um, yes, So, I mean
Speaker 1: it's the same thing with like subscription services. Like obviously,
Speaker 1: if you have a subscription service, you don't own the
Speaker 1: content you're watching. You are just getting a permission to
Speaker 1: use it from a certain amount of time. So this
Speaker 1: is obviously this is this is more obvious. Right, you
Speaker 1: don't owe what's on Netflix. You just are able to
Speaker 1: watch what Netflix has legal rights to show. But you
Speaker 1: even see this thing extended to like cars like Toyota
Speaker 1: was was trying out a program and that this may
Speaker 1: even it may even still be active for some cars
Speaker 1: where you need a subscription service to use the key
Speaker 1: fob on your cars like automatic like like door locking
Speaker 1: like fob, like you need a subscription to use that
Speaker 1: service of it. Just like why like if you it's
Speaker 1: it's just turning everything, it's turning everything into us to
Speaker 1: us like a subscription service. It's horrible, like everything is
Speaker 1: becoming a new subscription service, a new a new thing
Speaker 1: to get your monthly payments for. It's it's it's awful,
Speaker 1: like you don't actually buy things anymore. It's just a
Speaker 1: subscription services and digital copies. It's not nothing is nothing
Speaker 1: is actually the thing anymore? Yeah, it's it's it's all
Speaker 1: just rent extraction and the entire economy instead of you know,
Speaker 1: having a thing, they figured out way, what if we
Speaker 1: just distract rent and then you also don't own it.
Speaker 1: The same thing was like Tesla cars you have to
Speaker 1: like buy buy you know, upgrades via software that are
Speaker 1: already built in and like subscribe to keep your car
Speaker 1: running nicely. Like what it's not like No, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna go on a very small gamer rent
Speaker 1: here because this is a this is a thing a
Speaker 1: lot a lot of the worst practices for this rigidated
Speaker 1: gaming and this this was like, this was a big
Speaker 1: fight back in like the early thousand tents about okay,
Speaker 1: if you buy a game, right, do you own everything
Speaker 1: on the game? And the huge to fight about you know,
Speaker 1: they have these like delayed DLC, like they have these
Speaker 1: new content packages that would be on the disc right
Speaker 1: that you've bought, but you can't access it unless you
Speaker 1: pay the money. And this was like a fight and
Speaker 1: some gamers were like, you know, they're tried to fight it, right,
Speaker 1: but most gamers didn't care. And then they became the
Speaker 1: weaponized shock troops are the far right instead of you know,
Speaker 1: dealing with this ship and now literally everything has fucking
Speaker 1: day and day one DLC on it that you buy
Speaker 1: the thing, you don't even get all you have to
Speaker 1: you have to buy the if you have if you
Speaker 1: buy the season pass to get all the content in
Speaker 1: the future, it's like you have to buy the season
Speaker 1: pass for your car to work properly. Yeah, so this
Speaker 1: is just how it started with Star started with the
Speaker 1: season pass for a sixty for a sixty dollar game
Speaker 1: to then buy season pass to get more of the game,
Speaker 1: and now it's for your So yeah, that's fun. It's
Speaker 1: it's not it's it's kind of sucks. But yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of these, a lot of these like play to
Speaker 1: win practices, these like free models shuch then like which
Speaker 1: lead into a subscription service based model. Um have did
Speaker 1: da have definitely started in online gaming, and it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's really frustrating because as we'll talk about here
Speaker 1: in a bit, like the Sega model is like better,
Speaker 1: Like it turns out when you encourage your fans to
Speaker 1: play around with the stuff, it only helps your property.
Speaker 1: Like that's the reason why they there's still Sonic March
Speaker 1: available now and it's not like a dead franchise. It's
Speaker 1: because they like because they allowed that to happen. So
Speaker 1: it's actually really cool when we're allowed to access free
Speaker 1: information and play with it how we want to instead
Speaker 1: of like having this weird strict copyright like rules for
Speaker 1: not allowing certain usage of certain things. Like it's it's
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not great when you're restricting like emulation,
Speaker 1: restricting fan games, restricting the access to information. It's not.
Speaker 1: It's not it's it's not. It's not fun. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this is kind of it's kind of place into why
Speaker 1: I am very skeptical of digital media, which is why
Speaker 1: I start started collecting Blue Rays and all of all
Speaker 1: the things I like, because I bottomed things that Amazon
Speaker 1: Prime which are now no longer available on Amazon Prime,
Speaker 1: and that sucks, so like why do that instead just
Speaker 1: buy your physical copy? Yeah, well, the thing is like
Speaker 1: it didn't and it's so true to some extent, like
Speaker 1: if if you buy physical copies, like it didn't used
Speaker 1: to be like this, like Blue Rays used to it
Speaker 1: to some extent, still dubious most times. Yeah, but like
Speaker 1: like if you buy the physical copy of it, they
Speaker 1: will give you weight code that lets you use the
Speaker 1: online version a digital download code. Yeah. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: know that's a much better way of the thing working
Speaker 1: than uh, instead of you know, you don't buying it,
Speaker 1: you don't have the physical product and also they can
Speaker 1: take it away from you. Yeah, it's I'll circle back
Speaker 1: to this idea towards the end, but I kind of
Speaker 1: want to. I want I want to a little bit
Speaker 1: segue to like the idea of the same type of
Speaker 1: like paywalling, subscription service issues, and like the restriction of
Speaker 1: information regarding online news. So, you know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people, whether they be like reporters, editors, authors, or
Speaker 1: just to annoy people online. Um, but there's a decent
Speaker 1: collection of people that perpetuate the notion that readers or
Speaker 1: consumers are actually responsible for the dire straits of the
Speaker 1: media industry. But the problem with journalism and many other
Speaker 1: media you know industries. But the problem isn't that people
Speaker 1: aren't paying for news. The problem is that newspapers and
Speaker 1: outlets are being decimated and dismantled by hedge funds, capital
Speaker 1: investment firms, venture capitalists, and tech companies in search of profit. Um.
Speaker 1: You can look at how Facebook tricked a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of companies and just switching over to video content, and
Speaker 1: then a whole bunch of companies had to fire tons
Speaker 1: of people because there was a lie. You can look
Speaker 1: at how Sinclair broadcasting dominates local news channels and websites um,
Speaker 1: and how well established local papers are struggling while big
Speaker 1: companies buy up all the competition. So it's it's it's
Speaker 1: especially the venture capitalist thing is actually a really uh
Speaker 1: is a really interesting idea that has been documented decently well.
Speaker 1: And in the bed, I'll teach you how to bypass
Speaker 1: uh newspaper headlines via different methods. But there's this actually
Speaker 1: a good article in the Washington Post um that is
Speaker 1: titled as a secretive hedge fund gets its newspapers, journalists
Speaker 1: are fighting back. It kind of just details all of
Speaker 1: the different hedge funds, adventure capitalists firms instead of like
Speaker 1: just totally destroyed so many local papers throughout the entire country.
Speaker 1: It's actually kind of surprising once you learn how many
Speaker 1: of these papers are just getting destroyed by like just
Speaker 1: a few, like just like a few hedge funds are
Speaker 1: just doing all this damage, and it's it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is why the current like journalism industry
Speaker 1: kind of sucks right now, is because of these types
Speaker 1: of practices. And I mean, like no one likes it,
Speaker 1: like no one's happy with it, Like everyone hates journalism
Speaker 1: journalists hate journalism. People who read journalism hates journalism like
Speaker 1: activists hate journalism, like everyone's mad at it um. And yeah,
Speaker 1: you can look at these these hedge funds and venture
Speaker 1: cap the lists who are just like making it such
Speaker 1: an impossible industry. Uh. And then you know how you
Speaker 1: have like you have internet sites and culture sites like Vice,
Speaker 1: BuzzFeed and Cracked who had to frequently lay off large
Speaker 1: swaths of their editorial and writing teams, whether for like
Speaker 1: union reasons or because the company made faild attempts to
Speaker 1: chase some big tech companies or media giants you know,
Speaker 1: proposed money like in the Facebook switching over to video
Speaker 1: content kind of debacle that happened a few years ago.
Speaker 1: And like it's it's it's it's understandable why these writers, artists,
Speaker 1: the journalists are frustrated because, yeah, the work is hard
Speaker 1: and the salaries are low. Well, the work should be hard,
Speaker 1: and some people kind of slack off, but you know,
Speaker 1: for the good journalism is more is challenging, and salaries
Speaker 1: typically aren't great. But even if audience monetary support were
Speaker 1: the solution to making creative and writing industries more profitable, again,
Speaker 1: the kind of anti piracy folks would still be missing
Speaker 1: A fundamental point is that kind of the of the
Speaker 1: pro paywall people want you to get it through your
Speaker 1: head that journalism is just like other types of things
Speaker 1: you buy, whether it be food, you know, alcohol or entertainment,
Speaker 1: um saying you know all these things. You know, Netflix
Speaker 1: isn't free. You know, Coca Cola isn't free. Right, This
Speaker 1: isn't journalism's fault. It's just how the world works. You
Speaker 1: have to buy it to use it it. You know,
Speaker 1: it costs money to make you have to buy it
Speaker 1: to use it. It's just it's it's it's like, it's
Speaker 1: dumb to think otherwise. This is kind of their framework.
Speaker 1: But I beg to differ because enjoying art and worthwhile journalism,
Speaker 1: I think should always have the option of being free,
Speaker 1: because when information is in the public interest, it should
Speaker 1: just always be available to everybody, whether or not you've
Speaker 1: already used up your three free articles. Like this is
Speaker 1: really important, especially now when there's you know, the whole
Speaker 1: the whole war thing happening and finding like paywall articles
Speaker 1: about it is incredibly frustrating. Uh. And yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: there was even when the there was a right wing
Speaker 1: right ring extremist who opened fire and killed someone at
Speaker 1: a Portland's uh black Lives Matter protests a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Uh that that is you know, still definitely impacting the
Speaker 1: city because it was it's it's still very recent. But
Speaker 1: a lot of the news coverage, first of all, it
Speaker 1: wasn't great. Uh. There was a whole bunch of news
Speaker 1: coverage was like was parroting the police lies and framing
Speaker 1: the framing the attackers like an innocent homeowner who was
Speaker 1: defending himself. It was pretty gross. But even even when
Speaker 1: the news articles started to like correct their previous agree
Speaker 1: with errors, um, almost all of it was pay walled,
Speaker 1: like all like all, like a whole bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: was pay welled about it. And that's incredibly frustrating because
Speaker 1: this is like, you know, when information is in the
Speaker 1: public interest, it should be free to access. Like that's
Speaker 1: just there's like a good moral thing like uh and
Speaker 1: even um, and we've seen it. We've seen this before.
Speaker 1: Back in when the plague was a new thing, news
Speaker 1: organizations across the country started to lift pay walls to
Speaker 1: share coverage of the coronavirus pandemic um, which was great
Speaker 1: and you know, you can you can obviously see that
Speaker 1: once that changed over, a lot of people who we're
Speaker 1: making this happen behind the scenes probably hoped that which
Speaker 1: just convince people to become paying customers. But it was
Speaker 1: still like, that's still the way things should be is
Speaker 1: to have have the option of it being free and
Speaker 1: then having the option to donate. And this actually seems
Speaker 1: to be kind of the trend. Uh. The University of
Speaker 1: Texas at Austin surveyed about like a thousand Chicago residents
Speaker 1: about their local news consumption, and they found that respondents
Speaker 1: were more willing to give a ten dollar donation to
Speaker 1: support a free news site than pay ten dollars for
Speaker 1: a subscription to access premium news content. So yeah, like
Speaker 1: that's and that I definitely share that same like, uh,
Speaker 1: that same idea. I will weigh sooner donate money to
Speaker 1: a newspaper that I enjoy that is also free, that
Speaker 1: I will pay ten dollars a month to read subscription
Speaker 1: service based news. It's a it's because it turns out
Speaker 1: when you like this, this applies to all types of media,
Speaker 1: but like when you enjoy media, you want to support
Speaker 1: its creators, whether that be anime, whether that be sonic
Speaker 1: the fucking headgehog, whether that be whether that be news
Speaker 1: or books. Right, if you like something, you're gonna buy it, Right.
Speaker 1: I gotta introduced to te Lemony stikets books to be
Speaker 1: the library, and now I bought lots because I wanted to.
Speaker 1: I wanted to buy the books from the person that
Speaker 1: I like. Yeah, and there are entire like industries and
Speaker 1: they literally just work on this person list. This is
Speaker 1: why free to play games work. Yeah, exactly. There there's
Speaker 1: another conversation with free to play games here about like
Speaker 1: addiction and gambling and manipulation about that, but like that
Speaker 1: that's you know, like setting that aside for a second.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, these things if if if people didn't want,
Speaker 1: if didn't spend money on things they like, free to
Speaker 1: pay games would not work like fundamentally as a model. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: definitely definitely the idea of like, yeah, you get someone
Speaker 1: starts to awaying the service, then they start paying for it,
Speaker 1: whether it be buying useless you know, skin for whatever
Speaker 1: third person shooter you have, or that be you know,
Speaker 1: buying books or copies of of the film or like anime,
Speaker 1: body pillows, whatever, like you do you want to financially
Speaker 1: support the things that you enjoy. This is just a
Speaker 1: part of this is what humans do. So yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: more stuff should be have the option of being free. Uh,
Speaker 1: that definitely my take on it. Let's let's have a
Speaker 1: quick let's have a bit of a speaking of free content,
Speaker 1: this podcast is brought to you by these lovely sponsors,
Speaker 1: so you can listen for free while just skipping the ads.
Speaker 1: So good for you. We're back and now we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about different ways of bypassing pay walls, specifically for
Speaker 1: online news, because paywalls frustrate me and as someone who
Speaker 1: likes must around with kind of computer e stuff, there's
Speaker 1: definitely a long list of ways to buy pass paywalls,
Speaker 1: depending on what types of paywalls we are talking about.
Speaker 1: So types of pay walls there are. There are typically
Speaker 1: two general types of pay walls. There's hard pay walls
Speaker 1: and soft pay walls. Um, hard pay walls require payment
Speaker 1: up front, so usually some some form of subscription fee
Speaker 1: before accessing any content. Websites with hard pay walls. Maybe
Speaker 1: we'll act you lead like a tiny snippet of the article,
Speaker 1: but you need access, you need you need to pay
Speaker 1: subscription to access the full, The full content. Soft pay
Speaker 1: walls are are are typically allow you to read a
Speaker 1: number of articles before you need to buy buy a subscription.
Speaker 1: So it's there's you have a set number of articles
Speaker 1: that you can read for a fixed period or session. Um,
Speaker 1: there's you know, a lot of a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of websites operate like this. Most of New York
Speaker 1: Times operates like this. A lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of news sites have a soft paywall model,
Speaker 1: which is great because they're typically a little bit easier
Speaker 1: to bypass the first first method. This works some of
Speaker 1: the time. It depends on how the website is constructed,
Speaker 1: but you can try to stop the loading page before
Speaker 1: it fully loads. Uh so generally a quick technique. It's
Speaker 1: effective on several different types of web pages. UH. You
Speaker 1: have to stop your browser from fully loading the webpage
Speaker 1: as soon as your breaser displays the text element of
Speaker 1: the paywell to content. So you you know, enter a
Speaker 1: page U R L into the search bar, press enter,
Speaker 1: and then press the X icon or the escape key
Speaker 1: as soon as you see some of the text on
Speaker 1: screen before a paywall window pops up. UM. A major
Speaker 1: limitation of this is that stopping the website may not
Speaker 1: load all content elements, so it mainly render like a
Speaker 1: portion of the text, or it may like miss out
Speaker 1: on like files like images, animations or videos. Um. And
Speaker 1: it also depends on the order of which the website
Speaker 1: loads the page elements. So for example, if the website
Speaker 1: loads to pay Well first, then this check won't be successful. Also,
Speaker 1: you gotta have to be kind of pretty fast in
Speaker 1: order to make this one work. Typically this isn't the
Speaker 1: first way I do it, because there's generally generally easier ways.
Speaker 1: But if you can do this, then cool. It's definitely
Speaker 1: it's definitely a fast one if you can't get it
Speaker 1: to succeed for soft paywall, so like I, I will
Speaker 1: say the stopping the browser from loading is actually successful
Speaker 1: at some hard paywall sites because if they do like
Speaker 1: load a portion of the text to read as like
Speaker 1: a stippet, sometimes it will actually load the entire text,
Speaker 1: but then just block it off with a separate window.
Speaker 1: So sometimes with a hard paywall you can actually stop
Speaker 1: it via this method. So that's always fun. Um. But
Speaker 1: second method, generally more for soft paywalls, is for is
Speaker 1: to delete your pages cookies. So you know websites store
Speaker 1: cookies to track your browser UM activities, including how much
Speaker 1: content you back tested. So blog publishers, news newspaper sites
Speaker 1: can track the number of fage articles you've read using
Speaker 1: the cookies stored on your browser. If you hit the
Speaker 1: limit for for non subscribers, if like the limit of
Speaker 1: articles allotted, then you can delete the website cookies to
Speaker 1: refresh the to refresh that counter and it will possibly
Speaker 1: reset the limit of articles UM. You can go to
Speaker 1: the privacy or security section of your web browsers, like
Speaker 1: the option that allows you to check the cookies and
Speaker 1: site for all data, and then search for the website
Speaker 1: that you're looking for in the in the cookie management
Speaker 1: page and then click remove all. You can do this
Speaker 1: on like Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Edge if you want to
Speaker 1: use that for some reason. UM Safari. Yeah, but this
Speaker 1: trick may not work very well on hard pay walls
Speaker 1: because it that's that they don't really use cookies for
Speaker 1: the same purpose. And also you'll have to you know,
Speaker 1: do if you're doing that. If you're doing this for
Speaker 1: soft pay walls, you have to do it every time
Speaker 1: you you reach the limit UM. And if this won't
Speaker 1: work if the website is using other kind of more
Speaker 1: advanced tools to track your activity like I p logs, right,
Speaker 1: So if it's tracking your AP data instead of your cookies,
Speaker 1: then this probably won't work. So this one's this one.
Speaker 1: I mean you you should clear cookies every once in
Speaker 1: a while anyway, just like generally a good practice, But
Speaker 1: to do this all the time, it's kind of a
Speaker 1: kind of a bit of work, especially because the next
Speaker 1: method is typically easier and does the same thing, which
Speaker 1: is just reading articles inside a private or incognito mode
Speaker 1: or in the tour browser. Um So, as as as
Speaker 1: as explained earlier, not all paywalls are about the same.
Speaker 1: If you know, if a website uses a soft paywall,
Speaker 1: you should be able to read a subscription based content
Speaker 1: through incongnito or private browsing because it'll check the it'll
Speaker 1: it'll check the website into thinking you're a brand new visitor,
Speaker 1: granting you access to the content before it had before
Speaker 1: it racks up enough of views to uh to throw
Speaker 1: up the paywall window. So this is this is a
Speaker 1: lot easier than just manually to leading the companies every
Speaker 1: single time, because yeah, most web browsers do not transmit
Speaker 1: pre existing cookies onto an incognito or private mode browser mode,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't switch those back over. And then although
Speaker 1: the website will deposit new cookies on your browser during
Speaker 1: private browsing sessions, they will be removed as soon as
Speaker 1: you close the window. Uh. One bummer is that some
Speaker 1: news pages are getting wise and actually are programming their
Speaker 1: websites to be able to be able to detect if
Speaker 1: they're opened in a private or browsing mode or even
Speaker 1: on tour um and they just like won't open. They'll
Speaker 1: they'll say, sorry, you have to. We We've detected that
Speaker 1: you're using this in private browsing mode to view this content.
Speaker 1: Boot up a regular browser, which which really sucks for
Speaker 1: the tour users because a lot of people are like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm in China, I'm trying to get past the Great
Speaker 1: Firewall and fuck you eat ship. You should have somehow
Speaker 1: paid a subscription service to us to see information on
Speaker 1: this site that is literally illegal here. Like it's great.
Speaker 1: It's really bad for people who are like actually facing
Speaker 1: government censorship who need to use tour to view content.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that that is Uh, it's what we call
Speaker 1: a major bummer. Uh, a major sucks. A made your
Speaker 1: Oh no, capitalism did a whoopsie. Um yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: this is definitely this is one of the modes I
Speaker 1: do most often. It's like I can typically get get
Speaker 1: a lot of sites to be able to view through
Speaker 1: incong unit or private or private browsing. But again it
Speaker 1: does depend on what the site is ah is built
Speaker 1: to do. But bar far my favorite method. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: I'll mention. Another one that I don't really use very
Speaker 1: often is the paywall or removal extensions for for your browser,
Speaker 1: which is like third party browser extensions which try to
Speaker 1: automatically bypass paywalls. These are really hit and miss, um
Speaker 1: and it's they're also a really great way to get nice,
Speaker 1: fancy malware onto your computer. UM, So I would I
Speaker 1: typically steer clear of this. But there there is allegedly
Speaker 1: a browser extension called bypass paywalls for Chrome and Firefox
Speaker 1: that allegedly has been found to be effective, um that
Speaker 1: allows you to read the subscription based articles on hundreds
Speaker 1: of publications like New York Times, Wired, Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 1: Washington Post. Um. It is, it is. It is free,
Speaker 1: but you have to manually load it onto your browser.
Speaker 1: And just typically I'm not a big fan of browser
Speaker 1: extensions in the first place. So I kind of steer
Speaker 1: clear of these, but some some some people, some people
Speaker 1: swear by them, so maybe maybe they can work. They're
Speaker 1: they're they're not only my thing, but my favorite method
Speaker 1: is archive websites, uh, specifically archived dot is. So there
Speaker 1: are internet archiving tools that preserve copies of webpages and
Speaker 1: social media posts for reference purposes, and you can use
Speaker 1: these tools to access pabled content and read subscription based
Speaker 1: news articles for free, including a lot of hard paywalled pages.
Speaker 1: Archive dot i s or archive dot is is my
Speaker 1: favorite one. Um. Also it's it functions under archive dot today.
Speaker 1: Uh just it just it depends on what surfers they're
Speaker 1: running at the moment. Of course, there's also the classic
Speaker 1: and pretty reliable archived dot org, which has a nice
Speaker 1: calendar feature. But it's definitely good to check both of
Speaker 1: these because sometimes article be archived on archived dot is
Speaker 1: really easily, and it won't be are available on archived
Speaker 1: dot org. Sometimes it will be on archive dot org
Speaker 1: and not Archive's currently the one that's currently live. I
Speaker 1: think it's not. pH It automatically switches usually I could.
Speaker 1: I usually just type in our cave dot is um
Speaker 1: and it switches me over automatically. But yes, there is,
Speaker 1: there is, there is, there is a few of them. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you are right correct. It does automatically revert to archive
Speaker 1: dot phr at the moment. So yeah, but these these
Speaker 1: are the ones I use the most because people who
Speaker 1: have access to hard paywalled content will often archives the
Speaker 1: hard paywalled stuff so it's available to people without the paywall.
Speaker 1: This this this can include the screenshot mode for archive
Speaker 1: dot is and the regular archival method for archive dot org.
Speaker 1: But both these are great, um and they're also really
Speaker 1: good for looking at past versions of the articles, so
Speaker 1: you can look to see what how the articles have
Speaker 1: changed over time, and so is your great just research tools.
Speaker 1: And archive dot is is very easy to even upload
Speaker 1: stuff yourself, even if you don't have um the paywalls,
Speaker 1: Like even if you're blocked off from reading the whole thing,
Speaker 1: you can try to submit it to our chave dot
Speaker 1: is and there's a good chance and actually grab an
Speaker 1: unpaywalled version of it because because of how because of
Speaker 1: how the site works. So let's go to archive dot
Speaker 1: pH r or or archive dot is, enter the web
Speaker 1: page u r L that you're wanting to access in
Speaker 1: the designated dialect box at the bottom. It's like to save,
Speaker 1: it'll go through a little process, um, and then then
Speaker 1: you will then you'll be able to select the screenshop
Speaker 1: mode or the webpage mode and be able to see
Speaker 1: what type of thing in archives. It's pretty it's pretty cool. Um. It's.
Speaker 1: The last thing I'll mention is outline dot com and
Speaker 1: twelve foot Ladder. These are web based tools, but not
Speaker 1: specifically archival sites. They're generally used to just get to
Speaker 1: the text of an article it would via like web
Speaker 1: page nonsense and bypassing paywall stuff. Unfortunately, websites have also
Speaker 1: gotten wise to this, so stuff like New York Times
Speaker 1: and Wall Street Journal have figured out a way to
Speaker 1: get to these sites blocked so you cannot use outline
Speaker 1: dot com or twelve foo Ladder on them, but they
Speaker 1: still work on stuff like The Washington Post, so it
Speaker 1: always depends. But I definitely generally will prefer the archive
Speaker 1: dot is and archive dot org method to viewing any
Speaker 1: kind of paybold content. Um. Yeah, and that's kind of
Speaker 1: my I mean, I'm not now I'm not going to
Speaker 1: explain how to do like regular piracy on the podcast
Speaker 1: because I don't have enough time, but like it's easy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are there are lots of people who will tell you.
Speaker 1: I mean like Hiss Cartoon is like a very popular website,
Speaker 1: Like you don't even need to, like you don't even
Speaker 1: have to like properly tour and stuff anymore. There is
Speaker 1: like so much piraated media of help. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: like okay, so like you've got to be a little
Speaker 1: bit careful when your parting stuff because sondsmes you can
Speaker 1: get copyright strike, but if you stream it, they don't
Speaker 1: copy strike you for that. So yeah. Yeah. The other
Speaker 1: thing I will plug is a PLEX, which is a
Speaker 1: kind of an online movie host service like Netflix, except
Speaker 1: you upload all of the content to it. So let's
Speaker 1: say you buy Blue Rays, it comes it comes with
Speaker 1: the digital download code, So now you can upload the
Speaker 1: digital copy into Plex and watch that wherever you want,
Speaker 1: as long as you're signed into to the Plex account
Speaker 1: and you actually own the stuff on the service. So
Speaker 1: as long as the services online, you can use it
Speaker 1: because you actually own the stuff on it. Um that
Speaker 1: includes if you have if you have pirated versions of
Speaker 1: movies downloaded, you can upload this versions onto Plex then
Speaker 1: then delete the actual hard copies of it on your
Speaker 1: hard drive, then just watch the ones in PLEX and
Speaker 1: you're totally fine. So PLEX is great for having like
Speaker 1: ease of access because right sometimes I don't want to
Speaker 1: sort through my Blu ray discs and make sure that
Speaker 1: I have a Blu ray player with me so to
Speaker 1: watch my stuff. So using PLEX is a great wet
Speaker 1: method to keep your stuff that you actually own accessible
Speaker 1: online to watch it as long as you sign into
Speaker 1: a web browser. Um. And the last thing I'll plug
Speaker 1: is library submission form. So if you really want media
Speaker 1: and you don't wanna pay for it and you don't
Speaker 1: want to like pirate necessarily, you can get libraries to
Speaker 1: buy stuff. Um. I did this all the time when
Speaker 1: I was younger. I I found out that you can
Speaker 1: submit items for purchase via via via the library on
Speaker 1: the online forum, and I submitted so many comic books. Uh,
Speaker 1: most of the comic books, I would say, I'm not
Speaker 1: like a good majority of the comic books in the
Speaker 1: Molton County Library system are because of me. Every every Wednesday,
Speaker 1: when a new trade paperback would be released, I would
Speaker 1: upload it to the library submission form and they would
Speaker 1: buy it. Uh, and not just one coffee. They would
Speaker 1: buy like twelve copies. So there's so many Batman comics
Speaker 1: in the in the in the moltonmo Comney system because
Speaker 1: I would studiously upload upload all that stuff so that
Speaker 1: I didn't need to pay for comics. I could just
Speaker 1: get them from the from the library. So definitely look
Speaker 1: into library submissions to kind of grow what your library
Speaker 1: has in stock, and then also looking to see what
Speaker 1: other things your library is doing, because I know more
Speaker 1: libraries are looking into building like maker spaces and like
Speaker 1: tool libraries to um have access to things that are
Speaker 1: not just like books, you know, power tools, and then
Speaker 1: you know how to access to even cool stuff like
Speaker 1: stuff like vacuum formers and like three three printers, laser cutters.
Speaker 1: All these things are kind of growing. So look into
Speaker 1: what your library is doing because oftentimes libraries have some
Speaker 1: pretty cool stuff. Um. So yeah, this is my little
Speaker 1: little bit on why I don't like paywalls, why I
Speaker 1: think content should be free because it actually helps creators
Speaker 1: in the long run any anyway, And how to get
Speaker 1: past news articles that don't want you to read them
Speaker 1: without paying too much money yep. And remember, folks, if
Speaker 1: Japan invaded your country, pirrating anime as reparations. If you're
Speaker 1: mad about this tweet, find me on Twitter and I write, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: make sure your tweet and I right, okay if you
Speaker 1: have complaints about that take So yeah, that is that
Speaker 1: is my little my my little bit talking about piracy
Speaker 1: are and uh and yeah, I mean morest we should,
Speaker 1: we should, we should. I think it's I've always had
Speaker 1: I've always hold this opinion that I think we can
Speaker 1: all learn a lot of lessons from Sonic the Hedgehog um.
Speaker 1: And I think one of the greatest ones is that
Speaker 1: it turns out when you make stuff available to use,
Speaker 1: uh for free and allow emulation, people like people like,
Speaker 1: people like the stuff, more people enjoy it, and it
Speaker 1: will actually support official uses of it as well. So
Speaker 1: more stuff for free, more more library based economies, and
Speaker 1: having having gold rings, having an enormous number of gold
Speaker 1: rings makes you nearly invincible. That that is this is
Speaker 1: this is also true. I mean the multiple franchises exist
Speaker 1: with that exact premise. Um. Yeah, so it turns out
Speaker 1: when you have more, more libraries, more rings, people are happier. Yep,
Speaker 1: that's the episode