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Gaming HQ / Re: News from the lovely world...

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 08:24:43 PM

What is the point of licensing the music if you can't sell the product afterwards?

Also, shouldn't they go after Netflix & Co, too?

I read a couple of other articles about this. Because I found the tone of that one a bit strident (and odd). It's a copyright collective (similar for writers and actors and directors and newspapers), there are absolutely big music publishers in the PRS, but it's also basically how composers and song-writers get the equivalent of residuals. Instead of people who have rights to small income streams from IP they've licensed having to monitor that and chase down big companies themselves, they form a collective to do it on behalf of them all. But it's not unusual for IP licenses to be very specific - certainly the way it works for copyright in fiction and translations.

They have absolutely overreached in the past and can be a bit aggressive - but I kind of sympathise with them as whether it's the PRS or the equivalent in other industries they are really important in collecting income that creative workers are entitled to.

In the last decade or so PRS have had a strategy of doing deals with the big streamers - so they have an agreement with BBC, Sky, Netflix, Apple TV etc (there's been similar by other copyright collectives).

The way it works for companies like Netflix is basically that they do a deal wth PRS through the license for distribution online (in this territory) is agreed, and basically those streamers pay a fee (I'd guess almost a royalty element to some extent) which PRS then distributes to their members - I'm sure there'll be some complicated calculations. So the reason that they're not going after Netflix is that Netflix is paying them. Within video games PRS say they have deals in place with Microsoft and Sony who I assume are major distributors on their platforms.

My read from that PRS statement that there's been efforts for "many years" and Valve would not "appropriately engage" is that they've been trying to negotiate a deal with Valve for a while and they've either not engaged or can't get there so they're litigating (probably with an eye to get them back at the negotiating table).

#2

Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by Tamas - Today at 07:21:59 PM

Missed opportunity - it's much more effective to do one's insider trading during trading hours. This way everyone knows the same thing when the market reopens.  Trump must be very upset about that.

After-market trading is still going on, and the filthy pleb retail traders don't have access to that.

Isn't it the plebs who get fleeced? And now even the plebs know.

You get in early.

1.market closes,i imagine by that time the insiders have built a healthy oil short position at the top.

2. Trump sends the taco message.

3.those with premarket access sell/short their oil-related stuff but even the algorithms are a step behind the insider. The move of course increases the insider's profit. People with only regular hours acesss can watch the lucrative period of the trade play out. Those with oil longs are sweating.

4.market opens, those with longs give up and sell, hopeful people yolo into the short side. The insider closes their short into this dump before reality reaaserts itself and the price goes back up again.

[Fighting resumes between Pakistan and Afghanistan after temporary ceasefire ends, killing 2]

#3

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Jacob - Today at 07:21:47 PM

Were you guys aware that Pakistan and Afghanistan are fighting these days as well?

Fighting resumes between Pakistan and Afghanistan after temporary ceasefire ends, killing 2

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Renewed fighting erupted along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan on Wednesday after a temporary ceasefire expired, killing at least two civilians and wounding others in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan Taliban officials said.

The brief truce had been announced by the two sides ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Ziaur Rahman Speenghar, a director at the information and culture department in Afghanistan's Kunar province, said Pakistani forces fired dozens of artillery shells into the Narai and Sarkano districts, killing two civilians and wounding eight others after the ceasefire expired.

Afghan border forces returned fire, he said, claiming they destroyed three Pakistani military posts and killed one person. His claims could not be independently verified. There was no immediate comment from Pakistan's military. However, a local Pakistani official in the northwest accused Afghan forces of initiating the exchange of fire in multiple areas.

The latest violence comes about a week after both sides agreed to halt hostilities following Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan at the request of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar. The pause followed Pakistani strikes that the Afghan Taliban government said hit a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, killing more than 400 people. That toll could not be independently confirmed.

https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-pakistan-temporary-oause-fighting-ended-19fcf231eb89de69acd0a831144ca7c8

#4

Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 07:03:51 PM

Missed opportunity - it's much more effective to do one's insider trading during trading hours. This way everyone knows the same thing when the market reopens.  Trump must be very upset about that.

After-market trading is still going on, and the filthy pleb retail traders don't have access to that.

Isn't it the plebs who get fleeced? And now even the plebs know.

#5

Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by jimmy olsen - Today at 06:52:17 PM

Good analysis

https://acoup.blog/2026/03/25/miscellanea-the-war-in-iran/

#6

Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by Baron von Schtinkenbutt - Today at 05:36:56 PM

Missed opportunity - it's much more effective to do one's insider trading during trading hours. This way everyone knows the same thing when the market reopens.  Trump must be very upset about that.

After-market trading is still going on, and the filthy pleb retail traders don't have access to that.

#7

Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 05:09:22 PM

I imagine they use options

Maybe, but so does everyone else.

The whole market is a futures market.  I don't understand the relevance of the timing of the trading markets being closed as being all that relevant to how the grifters are going to grift.  We might see that there was a spike in trading just before the markets closed in NA.  Just like there was a spike in trading 15 minutes before the first Trumpian declaration. 

#8

Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by Tamas - Today at 04:59:26 PM

I imagine they use options

#9

Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 04:33:22 PM

And after US financial markets closed, too. More opportunities for insider trading!

Missed opportunity - it's much more effective to do one's insider trading during trading hours. This way everyone knows the same thing when the market reopens.  Trump must be very upset about that.

The futures markets are open 24 hours Mon-Fri. That's how they do the trades

Wouldn't that only work if someone had advance knowledge of the announcement though?

#10

Off the Record / Re: Football (Soccer) Thread

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 04:31:44 PM

Ah so it reflects the attendance interest as well. Makes sense.

Ok, now I am going into full nitpick mode.  It reflects attendance interest of those who were willing to pay 25k for a ticket, and receive the VIP treatment.  With a reduction of that kind of person attending in person there is also a reduction in the media types who follow them around. It's all to the good for Vancouverites who want to get tickets at the basic price. But it also speaks to the fact that we are a Province are paying way too much to have a few games played here.