Castle Magus

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla is probably accurate, though I'd say it's more like...



...except way less cool.

In any case, the whole thing makes me super glad that I've never given even a single shitting fuck about either Apple or Epic, except for mocking purposes like this (well, and the rage I feel when Epic fucks up things I actually did used to care about). Lock the whole lot of them in a pit with flamethrowers and chainsaws and let them murder each other, for all I care. If I had to pick a side, I guess I'd pick Apple in this case, because Epic trying to compare this to Nineteen-Eighty Four[1] is asinine melodrama, but that's like picking diarrhea soup over diarrhea soup with a glass of piss on the side.

(Issue found out about via Penny Arcade.)

[1] - I mean, after all, Donald Trump and the Trumpublicans in Congress have already had a serious vice grip on the Orwellian bullshit for the past four years now, and we all know how little Trump likes to share.

Link to article via tokoz via Facebook (which I won't link to here since it's a friends-only post).

(EDIT) The only Apple product I have on my computer at the moment is QuickTime. Actually, I just uninstalled that as well, since I don't want anything at all to do with Apple, after this. (/EDIT) Every time the updater thing used to pop up and nag me to install iTunes and such shit as well, whenever it updated QuickTime, I'd always just roll my eyes and uncheck it. Man am I so glad I did that now, and didn't actually let it install that malware.

"For about ten years, I've been warning people, 'hang onto your media. One day, you won't buy a movie. You'll buy the right to watch a movie, and that movie will be served to you. If the companies serving the movie don't want you to see it, or they want to change something, they will have the power to do so. They can alter history, and they can make you keep paying for things that you formerly could have bought. Information will be a utility rather than a possession. Even information that you yourself have created will require unending, recurring payments just to access.'

"When giving the above warning, however, even in my most Orwellian paranoia I never could have dreamed that the content holders, like Apple, would also reach into your computer and take away what you already owned. If Taxi Driver is on Netflix, Netflix doesn’t come to your house and steal your Taxi Driver DVD. But that's where we're headed. When it comes to music, Apple is already there."

Fuck Apple, super-duper hard.