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Making money by destroying/burying digital media. What a backwards world we live in…
Making money by destroying/burying digital media. What a backwards world we live in…
This practice feels like something that should be illegal. Effectively it is destroying art that hundreds or thousands of people worked hard to make, for the sake of fiddling the books of the owning company that commissioned it.
If you “write it off” to be worth zero, it should either become freely available abandonware, or can be claimed as the intellectual property of those that worked on it. Otherwise it is evident that there is some value to be had and therefore tax fraud to claim it has none.
I Googled them because I was interested. The answer is yes.
Sony failed to sue them, hoping to force them to block copyright breach adjacent DNS resolvers. That feels like a badge of honour.
Ever since the PS3 they have been a generation behind Xbox for online services and connectivity in their consoles.
I just wonder how Lindsey compares to Craig.