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Looking forward to reading - really had some excellent & unique questions for us!! How would a yankee like myself go about ordering a few physical copies to keep for posterity??

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The playability/streamability will probably be decent but the graphical fidelity WILL take a hit - i.e., there WILL be compression artifacting, all the worse on a sporadic connection. The slap in the face here is that they've indicated that the new streaming service won't honor previous digital purchases or physical purchases... so you won't be able to insert your physical PS3 game and have that server as authorization to play the streaming version on your PS4, and if you bought it on PSN previously, that's also not good enough. This to me is just downright insulting, and I'm confused why there isn't greater outrage... perhaps the policy isn't 100% final, but if this is accurate, count me as pissed... I guess if it's a Netflix-style service, and all those games are indeed offered, it's not as big of a deal... On the positive side, though, BioShock Infinite & DmC for free IS pretty cool...

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CLEARLY a banjo!

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Two thoughts... one, if they continue doubling-down on this decision in spite of clear false-positives and public outcry, perhaps they've done the math and concluded that even with a certain % of attrition on the part of their contributing user base, this is STILL a more profitable path forward for them. I'd actually be surprised if someone HADN'T run some projected numbers that would help explain why they would continue to stand by a policy so clearly unpopular. Second though, re: legality - I'm pretty sure you sign away enough rights via the YouTube/Google TOS that this isn't likely. Again, they've got the resources, I'm guessing they've crossed the T's and dotted the I's, and that redirection of ad revenue based on automated content ID matching is completely within their legal rights as providers of their service. That's "legal" - from an "ethical" perspective, they're basically giving up on the people who made them huge in the first place, flipping them the bird, and cashing in. So if they stand by this shift, and the algo doesn't get better.... then imo that potentially opens up a space in the market for a viable competitor. But any would-be challenger might ask themselves... if Google themselves went this route after analyzing the numbers, projecting the costs, calculating the risk, etc... why wouldn't we just end up in the same boat? I dunno, interested in thoughts on this... at the moment the most logical development would simply be refinement of the algo or some sort of partial system like Andy proposed, although that introduces additional complexity, and if they're not getting this algo right (at all), it's difficult to see how they would get something MORE complex right...

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GENERAL: Be an awesome father, an awesome husband, and an awesome site admin, in that order!! FINALLY modernize the site's look & feel and functionality AND update/migrate the forums (aka "V6") Finish 5 ReMixes, aka "get back on the musical horse". Just upgraded to Cubase 7.5 after my brief experiment with Reaper; going to focus on learning it and Sylenth1 and putting together some templates so I can be 5X more productive. Been wanting to do this for years, just needed to double-down on DAW choice after playing the field a bit... Lose 10 more pounds (lost ~10 this year) Fix/update landscaping around the house Still thinking about 2-3 good additions to the list, but these would be great!

Thanks, everybody! Mommy & baby are both doing fine and we'll all be coming home from the hospital tomorrow! Totally sleep-deprived at the moment, but also really happy & excited! So I'm gonna give MYSELF the following: :nicework::sleepdepriv:

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