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>Naturally, we're nowhere close to my crazy example, but there are smaller examples of this effect that we're starting to see. Try going down to the store and b
by Rylinks 10y ago
>Naturally, we're nowhere close to my crazy example, but there are smaller examples of this effect that we're starting to see. Try going down to the store and buying a Blu-Ray player that doesn't encrypt its HDMI output. You can't, even though the majority of people who care one way or the other would like one
This is accomplished not by bribing everyone, but by the ordinary legal system[0]. In general, bribing everyone without legal enforcement has coordination problems that are difficult to solve.
Once you pay off all the falafel suppliers, JP morgan or someone will come up with the bright idea of either
a) creating a new falafel supplier that rejects the bribe and sells at a price premium or
b) creating a new falafel supplier, accepting the bribe, and then closing down.
With enough obfuscation, b) can be repeated until the person giving out bribes runs out of money.
[0]e.g. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/warner-bros-sues-hd-fury-over-boxes-that-can-copy-4k-video/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/warner-bros-sues-...
- amalcon 10y ago> This is accomplished not by bribing everyone, but by the ordinary legal system[0]. Those are still for sale: https://www.hdfury.com/ https://www.hdfury.com/ You just can't buy them from Best Buy or Micro Center or what have you, and nobody will make a player that obviates the need for those. > Once you pay off all the falafel suppliers, JP morgan or someone will come up with the bright idea of either a) creating a new falafel supplier that rejects the bribe and sells at a price premium or b) creating a new falafel supplier, accepting the bribe, and then closing down. This is part of why my example is crazy, yes. It's not that hard to grow chickpeas, so it's in turn very hard to monopolize falafel.