Bundling: add in a bunch of "junk" the customer doesn't want, so you can increase the price because of how much "value" you added. (I would argue adding ESPN should force them to have to reduce the price.) Look at this new fancy television set! It may seem expensive, but it includes floor mats and an undercoating that won't ever get any security updates!
Segment The Market: With Linux, you can do anything. But Windows comes in so many different editions. Windows Home Basic, Windows Pro, Windows Extra Whitening, Windows with Peroxide, Windows with Baking Soda, Windows Tartar Control, etc.
Predatory Pricing: If a competitor gets a foothold in one market segment, such as small business servers, you simply underprice them. Sell at a loss. You can easily afford unlimited losses because you can charge whatever you want in the other market segments you have monopolies on. For example, Remmington Rand introduces a new entry level computer. Introduce your own model at way less than the cost of manufacture, but with just barely enough memory. The memory for this model is incompatible with any other model, and is priced sky high -- making up for the initial loss from the sale.
If you want to read the monopolists playbook, which I picked up in the early 1990s, read:
Big Blue: IBM's Use and Abuse of Power
Microsoft behaved as if everything in this book was their bible. It was astonishing.
The thing about youtube-dl is that the fewer people know about it, the more likely it is to keep working.
I've already noticed in the last year that sometimes it stops working, once you update it, it is working again. So there already appears to be an arms race going on.
Youtube-dl has a lot of options. Look at them. In particular, you can collect a batch of URLs into a file, and then pass the file to do an entire download session. There are options to select the best quality, or audio only, etc.
Once you have a batch file, you could switch to a different IP address to run youtube-dl. You can get a VPS (virtual private server) for $5 / month from places like Linode or Digital Ocean. You can run any version of Linux you like. You don't need to install a GUI. You can run commands from the VPS.
Your video downloads will be done from a different machine, not from a browser, but from a script, and won't have your login cookies from your browser.
The only possible motive for creating something is to get paid.
The only possible motive for creating LAWS is to get paid? That actually seems to be true these days, since corporations and wealthy people acquire and trade politicians like kids trade baseball cards.
But shouldn't they be licensing that law from Georgia? Creators deserve to get paid, or nothing new would get created. The only possible motive for creating something is to get paid.
On the post: Comcast Sues Maine For Demanding It Sell TV Channels À La Carte
Forced Bundling and Tying
It's a time honored tactic of monopolists.
Bundling: add in a bunch of "junk" the customer doesn't want, so you can increase the price because of how much "value" you added. (I would argue adding ESPN should force them to have to reduce the price.) Look at this new fancy television set! It may seem expensive, but it includes floor mats and an undercoating that won't ever get any security updates!
Segment The Market: With Linux, you can do anything. But Windows comes in so many different editions. Windows Home Basic, Windows Pro, Windows Extra Whitening, Windows with Peroxide, Windows with Baking Soda, Windows Tartar Control, etc.
Predatory Pricing: If a competitor gets a foothold in one market segment, such as small business servers, you simply underprice them. Sell at a loss. You can easily afford unlimited losses because you can charge whatever you want in the other market segments you have monopolies on. For example, Remmington Rand introduces a new entry level computer. Introduce your own model at way less than the cost of manufacture, but with just barely enough memory. The memory for this model is incompatible with any other model, and is priced sky high -- making up for the initial loss from the sale.
If you want to read the monopolists playbook, which I picked up in the early 1990s, read:
Big Blue: IBM's Use and Abuse of Power
Microsoft behaved as if everything in this book was their bible. It was astonishing.
On the post: Much Of The Assault On 'Big Tech' Is Being Driven By 'Big Telecom'
Terminology and POV
It is interesting how Big Telecom refers to Big Tech (Google, Facebook, etc) as "Edge Providers".
On the post: Ninth Circuit Says Warrantless Device Searches At The Border Must Be Limited To Searches For Contraband
I MUST search your phone for contraband
Your phone may have contraband such as drugs, guns, knives, etc.
On the post: FCC Does Something Right: Proposes Making Suicide Prevention Hotline A Three Digit Number
How about a 3 digit number to contact the FCC ?
I propose the new FCC number be 666.
On the post: New Hampshire Supreme Court: Of Course It's Not Defamatory To Call A Patent Troll A Patent Troll
Not "Patent Troll"
The correct term is PTE.
PTE = Patent Trolling Entity
On the post: Gizmodo Media's Clueless New Owners Tell Reporters They Can't Use Encrypted Email Any More
Re:
A something-something motel. You can check in, but you cannot check out.
On the post: The FBI Can't Get Into The Dayton Shooter's Phone. So What?
Re:
Sorry to disagree.
The burr under their saddle is NOT that they cannot get into the Dayton shooter's phone.
The real burr under their saddle is that they cannot get into YOUR phone. Any time. With no accountability or supervision.
On the post: AT&T Employees Took Bribes To Plant Malware On Company's Network
At least AT&T isn't planting malware for free
It would be a crime if AT&T planted malware.
But if they are making a profit for doing so, for another party, then it is commerce, and therefore it must be perfectly okay, right?
AT&T's malware for bribes is an important topic to be disgust.
On the post: What Happens When The US Government Tries To Take On The Open Source Community?
Re: Re:
Just to point something out. Microsoft not only acquired GitHub. In 2016 Microsoft acquired The Linux Foundation as a Platinum member.
On the post: DOJ Prepares To Sign Off On An Elaborate T-Mobile Merger Plan That Isn't Likely To Work
Isn't likely to work?
Whether the merger 'works' depends on your definition of 'work'.
Pai's FCC has a different definition of 'work'.
On the post: Judge Tosses Crazy Copyright Lawsuit Over Gigi Hadid Photo
Re:
I have heard Trump speeches that were more coherent than that.
On the post: The Failure Of Courts/Regulators To Understand The Difference Between Infrastructure Providers And Edge Providers Is Going To Be A Problem
Edge Providers is a pejorative term
Edge Providers is a pejorative term to describe the successful, profitable big content providers such as Google, etc.
It is the Infrastructure Providers, which should actually be called Dumb Pipes providers, who created the pejorative term Edge Providers.
On the post: Senator Graham Spreads A Bunch Of Nonsense About 'Protecting Digital Innocence' Online
Digital Innocence
What about protecting Analog Innocence?
Doesn't Graham care about that?
Think of the Children! (tm)
The Molester Protection Association of America (MPAA) wants to plug the analog hole. To prevent privacy / piracy.
On the post: YouTube Begins Blocking Stream-Ripping Sites
Re:
But I want video! So I'll have to use my VHS unit instead.
Shhhhhhhh! This must be illegal.
But the betamax court case?
On the post: YouTube Begins Blocking Stream-Ripping Sites
Re: As Long As youtube-dl Still Works ...
The thing about youtube-dl is that the fewer people know about it, the more likely it is to keep working.
I've already noticed in the last year that sometimes it stops working, once you update it, it is working again. So there already appears to be an arms race going on.
Youtube-dl has a lot of options. Look at them. In particular, you can collect a batch of URLs into a file, and then pass the file to do an entire download session. There are options to select the best quality, or audio only, etc.
Once you have a batch file, you could switch to a different IP address to run youtube-dl. You can get a VPS (virtual private server) for $5 / month from places like Linode or Digital Ocean. You can run any version of Linux you like. You don't need to install a GUI. You can run commands from the VPS.
Your video downloads will be done from a different machine, not from a browser, but from a script, and won't have your login cookies from your browser.
On the post: Big Fair Use Win Concerning Andy Warhol's Paintings Of Prince
Are we calling him Prince again now?
Don't you mean "the artist formerly known as prints" ?
On the post: Politicians Queue Up To Make France's Proposed Law Against 'Hateful Content' Far, Far Worse
Hateful Content
Politicians are making the law against hateful content much more hateful.
On the post: Supreme Court To Review Whether Or Not You Can Copyright State Laws
Re: Re: New Copyright Collection Society is needed
There is always the option to vote Inciteful.
On the post: Supreme Court To Review Whether Or Not You Can Copyright State Laws
Re: Re: Re: Re: Should take about five minutes
Wow, I just realized my last sentence . . .
The only possible motive for creating LAWS is to get paid? That actually seems to be true these days, since corporations and wealthy people acquire and trade politicians like kids trade baseball cards.
On the post: Supreme Court To Review Whether Or Not You Can Copyright State Laws
Re: Re: Re: Should take about five minutes
But shouldn't they be licensing that law from Georgia? Creators deserve to get paid, or nothing new would get created. The only possible motive for creating something is to get paid.
(I hope I didn't need an /s tag on that.)
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