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If you, and 1000 others, paid $X each for a car with 18" rims, and each of you received a car with 22" rims, then you have all been harmed; regardless of whethe
by thomastjeffery 3y ago
If you, and 1000 others, paid $X each for a car with 18" rims, and each of you received a car with 22" rims, then you have all been harmed; regardless of whether or not any recipient is more or less happy with the result. The harm is not the result, it's the fraud that lead to it.
Furthermore, Amazon has already written this argument with its actions: They didn't only introduce ads, they also introduced a higher-priced ad-free tier. By the Amazon's very action - which happens to be the context for this entire argument - the ability to watch without ads has a dollar value. That means the inability to watch without ads must have the inverse value, i.e. equivalent harm.