> I want them to stop competing with my service, or to pay the royalties. Which is basically rent seeking which is what this whole thread is complaining about.

> I want them to stop competing with my service, or to pay the royalties. Which is basically rent seeking which is what this whole thread is complaining about. And, incidentally, the whole problem copywrite was invented to solve -- you get a "time limited" monopoly on the distribution of your work. > But providing competing service which is based on the work of those that bigtech competes with, simply does not seem fair to me. <bad car analogy warning> This is like car companies saying you are free to race their cars as long as you never outcompete them on the track...