What a terrible name for a show also she was very hot in her prime.

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lol as soon as i posted that, i was like "this sounds like a raising hope ad"

In general, I don't know I have a rigorous ruleset. I know people that use fake IDs for discounts, or lie for their benefit. My work gave 8 hours of recovery time for people if they had a bad reaction to the vaccine. I didn't get a bad reaction so I missed out on skipping 3 days of work.

For pirating specifically, I've seen the harm it does to artist. Studios have shut down and careers have been harmed because no one can bother to pay for the things they enjoy. Why are people so entitled to the product other other peoples labors?

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When someone charges for their services, and I take their services without paying I've cheated them.

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If a street performer says they do a song and dance for $5 bucks, then I refuse to pay them, I can't turn around and say "I'm not stealing because you didn't lose anything physical, gotcha sucker"

Is wage theft not real stealing because no physical objects are deprived?

A cd only cost .10 to make. Are you only stealing .10 worth when you shoplift it? Does insurance on expensive sports trading cards only cover the cost of paper? Most of the value of goods in intangible.

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When I sell something I don't' want a buyer to help themselves whenever they think I charge too much.

That's because the executives just care about the bottom line.

whoah BLM and chatter about racism? Then it's either "better safe than sorry, this could be bad, even though nobody is talking about it" or "if we do this people will like us! We'll appear anti-racist!" Alternatively "people'll get mad, it'll boost us and we lose the potential risk of hosting the episode. Win win." There's no ideology involved.

And then there's the Fawlty Towers thing which was obviously shady as hell when you look into it.

and in the end you just get all the BLM and anti-racist activists getting the blame even though they're confused about the episode delistings too.

Generations have grown up with him in their front rooms, joining them for the football.

He was football, to all of us in the UK I would wager.

Sad times.

Two soap operas, an animated comedy, (have not seen SNW yet but I hear it is Marvel Trek), and a little kids cartoon.

"Star Trek"

And the animated comedy and little kids show wouldn't even bother me if they were not canon with the "main" universe AND we actually got thoughtful, well-written main shows. But instead we get very badly written soap operas.

Same reason they cancelled Gossip Girl and Love Life. They are significantly cutting the volume output to save cash so eliminated the worst performing shows on a cost to viewership ratio.

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Same

Is this just a sneaky way to get people to re-watch Raising Hope?

Because I am 100% for it!

I’m shocked thag Starz is still stand-alone. Figured it would have been bundled with another streamer like Showtime with Paramount or HBO with Turner

College hockey enters the chat

People even born later than that too. I'm 28 and none of my friends pirate anything really. I know it's anecdotal, but it's not like every young person out there is pirating.

Remember when Mary Elizabeth Winstead was giving 14 year-olds condescending relationship advice?

She is trashy, and was only hired because she is sleeping with Ewan.

SHOULDER BARGE SAYS THE REFEREE!

It’s like “Who’s on First?” It’s about a guy named When. He frequently calls the heart. Great show.

One of us! One of us! One of us!

Ahh I recognize his voice from FIFA! RIP

Also that was a great classy vid, I wish we had nice more subdued obituary videos like that over in America.

That's somehow lower than what I would have expected.

Ya I believe that number for sure. I'm a 20 something that isn't an idiot when it comes to tech, but I hardly ever even try to pirate anything. Can't remember the last time I did. If I can't get it on YTTV or one of the streaming services I have, I just don't bother. Forget people my parents age.

Yes!

Yes, and the most obvious example is probably The Simpsons. Highly influential, critically acclaimed, and remembered fondly for its first ~10 seasons, and the mediocre rest of its run doesn't seem to diminish its original impact or most peoples' respect for it.

I remember a retrospective article on Friday Night Lights after the show wrapped up. In it, the producers/creators talked about how Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton had such amazing chemistry that they were terrified to let them drive down to Texas together on their own (they wanted to do this to bond before the 1st season started shooting) as they were convinced that by the time the two arrived, they'd be in a torrid affair. Fortunately, nothing like that ever happened and Kyle/Connie were really just BFFs that hit it off immediately.

Out of curiosity, what are the ethical guidelines that most govern your choices?