Because high level corporate people are psychopaths.
Statistically speaking, psychopathic traits/tendencies are very beneficial and actively selected for, for climbing the corporate ladder.
Now, obviously, they don't go "Hey, you're a psychomath, lets promote you 3 rungs up", its that psychopaths have the charisma, manipulation, can backstab without feeling guilt, etc necessary to lift themselves up while pushing others down.
I'm saying, not be cocksure in the ignorance of "That never happened before, surely it'll never happen in the future"
Because gaming companies have spent the past 15-20 years stripping away our rights and our ownership and our ability to play our games that we've paid for.
games only require patching because developers cut corners thanks to internet connected consoles allowing for updates, before that we had literal decades of stable, playable games.
That has nothing to do with optical media, and everything to do with corporate stupidity and greed.
Bluray has enormous capacity, and compared to SD cards they literally cost pennies to print and manufacture.
the only disc rot I've heard about with regards to DVDs is a couple years where Warner Brothers specifically had an issue, which they ended up replacing all the discs for, granted it took them like 10 years to get enough pressure to get off their ass and do it, and it should have done it much sooner, so I'll concede that WB are cunts.. and I wager the reason they had rot is cause they tried to cheap out on the manufacturing and use something substandard.
It just sounds like a lot because we're poor peasants who think a thousand dollars is a life changing amount of money.
To company like google, 4 billion dollars is pocket change. a small evil tax compared to what they've made doing the evil.
It'd be like you setting up an illegal hotdog stand, making 2000 dollars selling hotdogs all day, then the government coming by and fining you 20 bucks for it, but not before getting a free hotdog with a wink wink nudge nudge.
Thats okay. you can be rest assured, theres plenty of people out there that don't care about the harm they cause and will continue buying sony products and digital downloads, sustaining sonys anticonsumer practices for years to come.
How else are they gonna make sure republicans win again? Democrats don't want to run viable candidates, especially viable women candidates, they want to be the minority opposition (that secretly always concedes just enough votes to let the right wing extremists get what they want)
the list of "if they actually cared about kids, they would have/should have done X" is so long you could probably print it out at an 8 point font and it'd still reach from coast to coast across the width of america.
When fines are nothing but a fraction of a fraction of the money made, then it ceases to be a fine, and just becomes an evil tax.
Which is why businesses should face fines based on their income, starting at 50% of yearly earnings, and going up to at least 300% of their yearly earnings.
Bad behavior won't change until you threaten their profits.
the problem is that American evangelicalism has tied money and goodness together with the prosperity gospel.
The more money you have, the more gooderer you are, and all you have to do is give all your money to (church/fund/whatever target) and god will give it back to you three-fold!
and there for, being against money by wanting to tax people means you are big evilsatanbad.
Because high level corporate people are psychopaths.
Statistically speaking, psychopathic traits/tendencies are very beneficial and actively selected for, for climbing the corporate ladder.
Now, obviously, they don't go "Hey, you're a psychomath, lets promote you 3 rungs up", its that psychopaths have the charisma, manipulation, can backstab without feeling guilt, etc necessary to lift themselves up while pushing others down.