The Meme Box

[Vixi]

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You're all hypocrites. Also, fuck Taylor Swift. I hate her.

AI is wasting water and other resources at an unprecedented scale at unprecedented low returns.

 

[impeeza]

AI is wasting water and other resources at an unprecedented scale at unprecedented low returns.

as you has been told. but is exactly the same «waste» which your unread gmail 2001 email on your inbox

 

[LanHikariDS]

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Netflix was "invented" only a year after DVDs first released in Japan.
Seethe harder, boomer

 

[Veho]

Netflix was "invented" only a year after DVDs first released in Japan.
Seethe harder, boomer

Those are CDs

 

[x65943]

The reason Netflix launched so quickly after DVDs came out was - the founders actually already had toyed with the idea of a VHS tape Netflix service

They ultimately decided against it for 2 reasons
1. VHS tapes were more expensive, and thus costly to buy and replace
2. VHS tapes were more expensive to ship

So once DVDs launched they almost immediately founded Netflix

Another interesting tidbit, Amazon tried to buy Netflix early on - and Blockbuster was actually offered the chance to buy Netflix but turned them down

 

[impeeza]

Netflix was "invented" only a year after DVDs first released in Japan.
Seethe harder, boomer

Those are CDs

The DVD (digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan.

Netflix was founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings on August 29, 1997, in Scotts Valley, California.
Hastings and Randolph considered and rejected selling and renting VHS as too expensive to stock and too delicate to ship. When they heard about DVDs, first introduced in the United States in early 1997, they tested the concept of online DVD rental or sales by mail, by mailing a compact disc to Hastings's house in Santa Cruz. When the CD arrived intact, they decided to enter the $16 billion Home-video sales and rental industry.

(Wikipedia)

 

[Veho]

Another interesting tidbit, Amazon tried to buy Netflix early on - and Blockbuster was actually offered the chance to buy Netflix but turned them down

People keep shitting on Blockbuster for turning down Netflix but Blockbuster had their own DVD-by-mail service, and had bought a different video streaming service already, Netflix was just one of the several companies competing in that field (Amazon being one of them), and nobody could have predicted which one would come out ahead.

 

[x65943]

People keep shitting on Blockbuster for turning down Netflix but Blockbuster had their own DVD-by-mail service, and had bought a different video streaming service already, Netflix was just one of the several companies competing in that field (Amazon being one of them), and nobody could have predicted which one would come out ahead.

Blockbuster actually got sued for copyright infringement by Netflix and the two groups settled for an undisclosed sum

 

[Veho]

Blockbuster actually got sued for copyright infringement by Netflix and the two groups settled for an undisclosed sum

They got sued for patent infringement. The patents were not for the idea of DVD-by-mail, or any core business concept, it was "the idea of a queue of orders whereupon users get sent the next DVD from their queue once they return the previous DVD" and "the idea of said queue being dynamic" (which I don't know how was even granted, the US patent office baffles me as usual). Too broad and not enforceable. If they had a leg to stand on they would have blocked all other movie rental places out there, and not stopped at a settlement with Blockbuster. This was just maneuvering.

 

[x65943]

They got sued for patent infringement. The patents were not for the idea of DVD-by-mail, or any core business concept, it was "the idea of a queue of orders whereupon users get sent the next DVD from their queue once they return the previous DVD" and "the idea of said queue being dynamic" (which I don't know how was even granted, the US patent office baffles me as usual). Too broad and not enforceable. If they had a leg to stand on they would have blocked all other movie rental places out there, and not stopped at a settlement with Blockbuster. This was just maneuvering.

Imma be real with you this is the first time I have ever considered patent and copyright are not the same thing

Do you work for Nintendo or something??

 

[Xzi]

 

[LanHikariDS]

The DVD (digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan.

Netflix was founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings on August 29, 1997

Yes, that's what I was referring to.

 

[BakerMan]

something i drew for a hunger games sim vid i'm making
(it's sonic punching paul from antonblast)

 

[Veho]

Do you work for Nintendo or something??

My uncle works for Nintendo

Imma be real with you this is the first time I have ever considered patent and copyright are not the same thing

Shame FAST isn't here, he could give an entire dissertation on the subject.

Whatever happened to him?

 

[x65943]

My uncle works for Nintendo



Shame FAST isn't here, he could give an entire dissertation on the subject.

Whatever happened to him?

Writing every new Wikipedia article and managing 100 sock puppet accounts took up too much of his time

 

[MPRTwice]

 

[MPRTwice]

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something i drew for a hunger games sim vid i'm making
(it's sonic punching paul from antonblast)

Perfect timing!

 

[MPRTwice]

Netflix was "invented" only a year after DVDs first released in Japan.
Seethe harder, boomer

I didn't see the context but I see boomer as an insulting way of calling someone too inexperienced.

Silent generation is better in general. Boomer younguns are too new-school. I've been called an old-soul.

 

[hippy dave]

 

[hippy dave]