About a year ago I was saying how I wanted Winamp to come back. Then they tried coming back, but making their old player open source. But they totally didn’t grasp the concept of open source. The whole thing blew up when people took the source code and…get this…forked it! gasp!

Still to this day, I don’t see how Winamp didn’t see that coming. Well it turns out, their source code had dependancies that THEY didn’t even have authorization to use. So they tried asking everyone to not fork their source code, but also, here it is, please be good boys!

Now some people swear that Winamp are just idiots. Other people swear that they HAD to know that would happen. Like it was deliberate.

Whereas I believe that the most simple explanation more often than not is the right explanation. So if they WERE that dumb, let’s take a look at the implications of that. That would mean that there were executives up top who got word that people would like an open source product. These executives would have to have had ZERO understanding of what that meant. At all. And I like to think if they had somebody on their payroll who relayed the message that open source was being requested, that the messenger at the very least, could have informed them of what that means. This implies that NOT AS SINGLE PERSON ON STAFF STOOD UP AND SAID “HEY, WHOA! WHAT ARE WE DOING???”

So that doesn’t seem too simple. That seems like a stretch.

Well then the other option is that it WAS deliberate, and that they knew exactly what they were doing. One problem is, I don’t know what they were doing. If this was deliberate, what’s the end goal here? You get people to fork a source code and find dependencies that you don’t have the rights to distribute. Which then in turn opens YOU up to a legal vulnerability if Microsoft decides they want to be assholes. Then, on top of this, you start threatening legal suits against ANYONE who forked your code. I’m not getting the intention here. No matter how this plays out, it already feels like a stretch to say this was intentional.

So, if it wasn’t them being blundering idiots, and it wasn’t them deliberately doing this…what the fuck DID happen?

My only takeaway is that I no longer want anything to do with winamp. It really just seems like the Chernobyl of audio players at this point.

Well they have the skulls on them. They must be good! People wouldn’t have died for them otherwise! Duh!!!

The things listed were the gimmicks announced but never used.

Because they haven’t confirmed cat support yet!

It’s actually just leftover 3DS screens.

Don’t you do this to me…don’t give me hope.

The NES had an expansion port on the bottom.

The SNES also had an expansion port.

The virtual boy…existed.

The N64 had an expansion port, a ram upgrade, and a controller memory pack.

The gamecube had an expansion port, and a handle.

The Wiimote has a speaker inside, that only 1 game ever used (that I played).

The WiiU had the WiiU gamepad.

The Switch had the IR sensor, and HD rumble.

Where are we right now? What are we doing? I’m reading a news and content aggregation system known as Lemmy which pulls the current world to my fingertips. It separates everything into digestible categories so that you can separate based on topic of interest. This can then be used to grasp the context of what society has done with their day, and recap recent events, or just show you a funny comic if you need to be cheered up. I can even browse a community of nothing but cat pictures.

It sounds like an amazing service, so imagine my surprise when I find out that the world around me is just…ya know…batshit insane.

We’re discussing the current ruling government who’s PUNISHING people for having empathy, and basic common courtesy towards other people. DEI has been in the news the past few days as being some controversial concept. So I looked it up, and find out it means “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”.

What the hell is so controversial about that??? “Hey Tom, wanna go bowling with us later?” “What?” “We’re going bowling after work. Would you like to join us?” “Join you? HOW DARE YOU INCLUDE ME! WE ARE DIFFERENT RACES YOU MOTHERFUCKER!!!” “What…what just happened?” “I WILL NOT BE PART OF YOUR DEI PROPAGANDIST BULLSHIT!!! NEXT YOU’LL TELL ME YOU WANT ME TO TALK TO A TRANS PERSON!!!” “Tom…your daughter is trans…” “HEEEEEE IS A HEEEEEE!!!” “Tom…ok, ya know what? Fuck you.” “That’s more LIKE it!”

I do not understand the world we live in today, where being different and getting along is somehow a bad thing.

You show up, in a topic about naked trump, and post a picture in a spoiler labeled as NSFW and everybody saying it’s great.

I’m not willing to see a simulated image of naked trump. That spoiler is staying spoil free. I’m not risking it.

Maybe the clouds and the landscape is part of the logo? I’m reaching for straws here, because this logo sucks.

I pledge, to do the thing, that makes the red line go up. Profits go BRRRRRRR. Human lives go…away when we kill them all. But profits go BRRRRRR!!!

Don’t be evil.

Counterpoint…ew.

…I don’t think ANYONE wants his nudes. I mean, Obama in his prime? Yeah, I fully believe there’s some rule 34 Obama/Michelle content out there. Those two can FUCK! But trump? Who is out there like “I want to see a 3 inch flappy dick!”?

…but why?

Ah, THAT explaination at least has legs. All these other responses I’m getting are these abstract “mouse trap if everything goes exactly like this”, sort of explainations.

Although, I still don’t think financial recouperation is the path I’d take. I would be pressing legal charges. Like, criminal acts go to prison type charges.

At this point someone could say Hitler is coming back from the dead riding a dinosaur, and my reaction would be “Yeah, sure. That may as well happen. Nothing has made sense the last 10 years. That’s just as plausible as anything else we’ve seen.”

It is impossible to ban piracy. The whole concept is that it’s not legal to begin with.

I bet Lars Ulrich is so proud that he killed music piracy back when he killed napster.

Except wait…no he didn’t he killed A service. Meaning singular. The concept of piracy moved on. We got limewire and torrents.

The ONLY thing that has slowed (if not stopped) music piracy is making the content readily and easily available in a convienent consumption method at a reasonable price.

Shocking, I know.

The invention of iTunes CHARGING money for music in a (at the time) new more convienent method of music consumption at a reasonable price did leaps and bounds more to destroy piracy than Napsters downfall ever could.

Now if only video services would learn this lession. Because it’s the same lession. I don’t know how they missed the memo on this.

Put your video in one centralized place. Make it hassle free to watch. Charge a reasonable price. Piracy dies overnight.

And just to prove it, show of hands. Who here would go through the effort and risk of pirating, if Netflix had everything you wanted to watch, for $5 a month? Who here would say no, and still pirate? Reply below and tell me if you would still pirate with those conditions?

But instead, netflix is pushing $20 a month, and the video hosting is fractured among multiple hosts, all of which overcharge, AND want to serve ads.

Oh hey, right on cue. It’s a skull and bones flag approaching.

That is an ass pull if I’ve ever heard one.

Let me make sure I understand your comment correctly.

You’re saying that if you post information publically, on a platform whose whole concept is that everything is public, and someone uses information you posted there to identify you, stalk you, break and enter, and then assault you…that it’s the fault of the service you used to post that identifying information?

That’s the arguement being made?

Ok…and why would they pay YOU that money? Wouldn’t it be companies and governments they pay?