O-E-O

Mocha heard that.

Vedder said do better.

I get the joke, but what they said doesn’t necessary imply that they canned it themselves (think “homemade”).

How about the power… to move you?

In the beginning the studios even tried to hide who the actors were, crediting them under character names owned by the studio. Some of the biggest stars of the day started United Artists offering artists more freedom and recognition, and the studios eventually realized that by letting the actors be known as people, their celebrity (and sometimes even scandal) would actually generate interest in movies.

I should note that we still got more of this stuff thanks to the regular web, mostly from the early 2000s onward, once digital tools for creating and sharing got better and cheaper. But yeah, mainstream modern platforms with content matching do make sharing more complicated.

All good! Yeah, the wild west days of sampling really showed the art we could have had if sampling was licensed like song covers are.

With all due respect, this couldn’t be wrong-er. Copyright just wasn’t enforced on sampling back in the Beasie Boys’ heyday, it really wasn’t on people’s radar yet. You’ll hear people say “There’s no way you could make [seminal hip-hop album] today!” due to how much it would cost to clear all the samples that went into something like Paul’s Boutique or Three Feet High and Rising.

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I’m not saying it’s the answer to all of this, but read up on the philosophical differences between the Free Software and Open Source movements.

Primeco

It was all that extraterrestrial PCS technology.

Yep, username checks out.

It’s “businesses,” by the way.

She matches the Switch!

You know I’m required to push all the buttons, right?

Here’s a shortcut: test if you could drop “his” into the same spot and have it make sense. (And of course you’d never write hi’s or his’s.) If “his” would work, “its” would work.

It’s “its,” by the way.

The top comment, posted 21 hours ago, explains it.

Federating with another instance essentially means caching/rehosting their content, so it’s easy to see why some instance hosts may not want to deal with that from particular instances. As others have said, you can join an instance that’s more open to everything, or just host your own.