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Is there any reason for Google to treat this app differently than any other browser? The only difference I can think of is that this is run on televisions.
by pindab0ter 3y ago
Is there any reason for Google to treat this app differently than any other browser? The only difference I can think of is that this is run on televisions.
- Galanwe 3y agoI don't think Google treat this app any differently than any other. The problem isn't Google per se, it's the inadequacy between a mass distribution platform, and an inadequate legal framework. There is probably, at any time, thousands of apps being wrongly shutdown, and thousands infringing copyrights. The whole concept of these distribution platforms (Play Store, App Store, YouTube, you name it) is to scale beyond the capabilities of what even an industrialized manual system could do. Yet the laws (especially related to IP) are intrinsically interpretation based. There is no intersection of such two systems that wouldn't massively tip the scale for one or the other party. The only possible solutions are to - scale down these massive distribution platforms (unlikely) - accept their drawbacks and the business risk to depend on them (most likely) - find an other way of defining IP, such as some forms of resistant watermarks (unlikely) - move all distribution platforms to some form of DRM such that extracting content is impossible (most likely) The future is not bright.