Surely most turns of phrase and references are easily googleable these days anyway, so it's not like it's even that hard to figure out. And if it is, you can do this amazing thing called 'asking'. I doubt the author will be mad that you want to know exactly what they meant when they wrote what they wrote.

BankID is used for login with every single Norwegian bank and government institution. There are alternatives, but they're invonvenient and sometimes bespoke per service.

* Allowing resale of digital games

* Transferring game licences between platforms (so now you have all your Steam games on your Xbox (at least those that run)

* Developing a new disc format (or other physical format) and locking in that for the next gen

* Just buying a blu-ray factory or two to secure supply and locking in and promising physical releases going forward (and then living up to those promises, which isn't going to be easy with bean counters breathing down their neck)

These are massive asks in the current reality, so I can't see MS bothering. Xbox already seems to be living on the edge of relevancy. It seems more likely to me that they just won't bother any more and relegate it to a brand for what remains of the gaming part of Microsoft.

An uncompressed 24 bit 1080p image is just under 6 MB. If you save it as a compressed PNG, you cut that down to roughly 2.5 MB. Now, PNG compression isn't very efficient, and you can probably do some interframe magic if you really wanted to (cf lossless h264), but the whole exercise is mostly futile, since even if you cut your bitrate down to an eighth, you're still looking at, like, 20-ish minutes of runtime with 25 gigabytes.

Meanwhile, blu-ray looks as good as it does at an average of 25-30 mbit/s (0.03 gbit/s) (while UHD blu-ray even more so, with a better codec, so even more detail is preserved). The compression used saves so much space the trade-off is obviously worth it unless you're a production company making an actual movie, where every detail counts.

I can ignore that too, you know. Not all laws are reasonable.

> Some people don't recognize speed limits; that doesn't always end well for them.

Breaking the speed limit can be lethal. That's a pretty good reason to follow that rule even if you don't care who made it.

I haven't found good reasons to keep copyright law (on the contrary, I constantly see it hinder progress in society), so I ignore it.

If I get prosecuted for doing copyright infringement, I'll take it with pride.

Video is really big. Compression was needed to make it even vaguely possible unless your quality was in the toilet.

HD-DVDs were smaller, so they were more compressed.

Bankruptcy.

They've already had to massively cut down after the first round of people switching to digital-only. I doubt they'll survive a digital-only world (maybe a rebrand will work? Or maybe they'll limp along on merch).

Good thing I don't recognise copyright. Can't infringe on that which does not exist. I'm sick of pretending it does good in the world when I constantly see its consequences are things like this.

> If I buy a movie ticket, that means I get to watch the movie once. That's the agreement.

Given the amount of agreements out there that have unfair terms from the get go, or are otherwise Darth Vadered, why should anyone care what deal the corps give you?

Adobe Creative Cloud became the only option for new Adobe software in 2013, 3 years before that essay. Sure, Adobe is on the forefront of being knobheads, but still.

And even if true, there's always emulation (also a pain though).

We should have seen this coming back in 2006. I'm sure someone did.

This feels like the beginning of the death spiral for blu-ray. Sales aren't going to go up enough for it to be worth it keep factories going, much less spin up new ones.

> Denmark’s digital affairs minister criticized Meta for an advertising campaign promoting regulations on age checks for social media in an interview with POLITICO.

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-digital-minister-sla...

Given that I can find books that aren't civil there, sure.

> This is 4Chan [1] , and your library does not contain stuff like this.

Finding dick pics at my local library isn't hard, if you know where to look. Ditto 4chan.

> Your library does not contain books or films showing 'rape voyeurism'.

That'd be because it's illegal. Hence my comment about that.

> It's made by PURDUE PHARMA, dispensed by doctors, and has caused a vicious national epidemic affecting millions of lives - and is the leading cause of death for ages 18-45 !!

I'm glad I don't live in the US, where doctors are lobbied (this doesn't seem like the right word, but you get the idea) to push opiates or whatever other drugs on patients, only to then get away with it. Preventing things like that is also included in 'a world where we can have that regulated'. For instance:

> The 'world you need to imagine' is one where we actually are able to restrict fentanyl, definitely restrict doctors from handing out entire bottles, and are able to afford actual rehab for those how need it.

I agree we should restrict doctors from pushing opioids! And rehab should be state sponsored! That too is harm reduction.

> Singapore, which takes a very aggressive and authoritarian 'zero tolerance' approach has less than 1% of the deaths.

Ah, yes, sterile Singapore. I guess 30 years in prison is better than dying.

I'll refrain from commenting on the rest of your post. Have a good day. I know I won't.

The traditional quip works well on small-scale stuff, but if there's loads of money or power to be gained, malice and greed tends to be fairly prevalent.

I can be 9 years old and go to the library and read any book they have without showing ID. Whatever your point is, it escapes me.

> The point is that 'even the local library' enacts rules and social conventions - not that they're exhaustively and acutely enforced in all corners.

Then let us do the same thing on the internet. Age verification is not that (at least in the forms being pushed).

> No 4chan section in the library?

No, but there are 4chan-style books I can read there. Anything that isn't outright illegal (Anarchist's cookbook) is pretty darn available there.

> You might wonder why it doesn't have vast array of avant guard adult content, porn or art with really aggressive themes and people calling each other the n-word?

That'd be because it does have books like that. Your point continues to escape me. Maybe my library is really pushing whatever limits.

> I just can't believe anyone here has any relationship with the reality of children, teaching or parenting whatsoever

I've literally been an assistant teacher for about a year. You probably won't believe me though.

> It's the same argument made by the 'drugs should be legal and accessible' crowd

Who I agree with! Funny how that works!

> completely oblivious to the instantaneous massive health epidemic we'd have with opioids and fentanyl

Imagine a world where we can have that regulated, so people know what they're taking, and can see a doctor to get help without getting the police on their back, rather than the unregulated shitshow we have now.

> or the 'anti vaxer' crowd - narrow ideological arguments about expression disconnected from any kind of reality or nuance.

This comparison escapes me too. Anti-vax started with (or at least got a massive growth boost by) Andrew Wakefield, whose paper was based on science so bad and whose research was so heinous he's no longer a doctor. If the 'drugs should be legal and accessible' stance is based on science that bad, I'd love to see it.

It literally doesn't (at least not if I don't intend to borrow a book and take it home; if I stay there and read, I can do so without any ID. I only need ID to get a library card, and I don't need that to enter and read a book).