I like to think it's just a race to make as much money as they can doing illegal things before there's actually a law stopping it.

And since laws take forever to come about, they're making a lot of money.

Does the compressed playback also help with large comp sizes? or just longer timelines?

What's this AI trash?

Mine is usually, "you're so expensive, you really got hung up and crashed on THAT!?"

Everything is all about views now. The more people violently love it hate something, the more free marketing it gets. And people who hate spending too much money on movies, love free marketing.

One of the most tragic parts of this story is that it's left throngs of artists and designers with massive gaps in their portfolios — work both old and new, sometimes years in the making, that can't be shown to prospective employers, even if it was probably discarded by now