Just adding more context

If you are writing genre fiction (romance, sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, thriller, horror, etc.), you are probably better off self-publishing, honestly. Romance and sci-fi in particular have very indie author friendly readers. Publishers these days expect authors to do most of their own promotion anyway.

Same old song and dance. AFAIK they've never proven piracy was killing video game or movie or music industry either.

Infact quite a few people turn to piracy when the service they pay for geoblock content, has worse ui and quality than piracy sites and are less likely to conserve old media.

A group of people thought they could go to court with the argument that a merger would 'spoil gaming' and they thought they'd win? Were they representing themeselves or something?

Don't shit in books. It gets the pages dirty

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eu study - media piracy

https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf

piracy doesn't hurt sales, it improves them.

Microsoft did tell the EU commission they had no incentive to make Zenimax games exclusive.

The EU did not make them "promise" or impose any kind of restrictions but it is indeed a thing Microsoft wrote in a document to them.

They could follow Disney and Spotify, and make all the content available for a reasonable monthly subscription.

The Internet Archive doesn't have a lot of new books. Most of the physical books that were donated and scanned were library discards or other old copies.

Who are you talking about? Nobody is supporting publishers here.

That space junk will eventually eliminate itself, this does eliminate space junk faster as in my example above it does mitigate the total amount of stuff in orbit. It isn't wrong, it's just not right in the way you were hoping. Short of making a space garbage truck this is the way forward

We get it, the title just kinda lies.

Reducing space junk implies the removal or elimination of the already existing problem.

The archive has provided me information of immense historical value that would have otherwise been lost to time. It is one of the last open sources of data amd record of much of the web. Personally I would pay subscription or better yet advocate for government funding just like libraries.

same with ‘tech bro’. It used to mean a specific (negative) type of tech worker, now it’s a catch all term for anyone in tech

Mind-blowing. Gotta use Edge with it but I can take a bit of Edge for some AI goodness.

They didn't tell courts (or anyone) that they wouldn't make future Bethesda titles exclusive.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/did-microsoft-break-its-promise-to-the-eu-about-bethesda-exclusives-for-the-record

I've built an API and basic video game in it so far, building a boot loader for a custom OS now; it's alright but there's some bad design choices;

For example hidden types not listed in the imports etc; would be better if that was more explicit.

Also the docs for most of crates I've been using has been really terrible.

I hate the way this article uses the word "coder" instead of "programmer". It's an all too common trend. It is a diminuitive word which trivializes programming.

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If the license to lend is included in a physical copy, not in a digital, how does that explain the same pricing for either in a lot of cases. How about I buy a physical copy and digitize it, and lend it out as such? Again, not allowed, but for different rules they designed.

Rights that were acquired trough spending a lot on legalized bribery (called lobbying). Just because something was made legal, does not mean it's right or just. You only care about it being so is because you have more to gain from it.

If you have no choice to play the game, but people with more money can actively stack the rules against others, you cannot claim "utilitarian"

The IP system as a whole is rotten, and I'm talking broadly here: music, patents, copyright, academic publishing,... IP protection is necessary, but as it is now, it's built on rules designed by companies to further their interests, not to serve the intended purpose. While it's riddled with protections for them and not for the others. While copyright and patent trolls, misuse the system to deny others theirs. And this is another one of those situations.

Just return to piracy

They should reject it on the grounds that Activision and Microsoft are too big already

Read the room.

Why would Microsoft buy a huge studio and then make those games exclusive to the platform?

Microsoft told the courts they wouldn't do that with Bethesda and lied.

Its going to be a no.

With lawsuits like this, even when the judges go out of their way to spell out what the plaintiffs needs to provide to find cause, its almost always proof there was no cause to begin with... or the cause is so obscure as to be open to interpretation.

The Judge is even pretty much hinting this, by saying why would they make x games exclusives, when it results in even less profit for them, not more... provide examples of this being the case.

NOW the argument could be made look at Halo, but even there it was exclusive to a MUCH smaller segment of gaming (Apple Mac) and Microsoft buying Bungie resulted in them getting a MUCH larger market at the cost of that smaller one.