margana

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by margana 2y ago
We simply need the same that we have for music - the ability to legally purchase an offline digital copy that we can use on whatever device we want to. This is a completely solved problem. In essence, movies and TV shows aren't any dif
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by margana 2y ago
Netflix originals being region locked on Netflix, and Amazon originals being region locked on Prime Video has convinced me that this is just a lie.
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by margana 2y ago
That's not how the EU works. If whatever is passed is an EU regulation, it will be immediately harmonized across all member states the date it goes into effect, as the regulation is law by itself. If it is a directive, each member stat
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by margana 2y ago
Unless the threshold is set high enough that only a few corporations could even possibly do it. Especially if they limited it further per industry.
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by margana 2y ago
You completely missed the point. There is no difference on the "shared medium" whether you use that data directly on your phone or on your PC through your phone. Also, service providers shouldn't be allowed to make false adve
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by margana 2y ago
The only being ridiculous here is Apple. DMA is fairly clear and reasonable in what it wants to achieve. It's Apple that is trying different ways of not complying with it. There is no "back and forth". The EU is not negotiati
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by margana 2y ago
How would Samsung/Google/etc recoup the costs associated with allowing third party app stores on Android? How would Microsoft recoup the costs associated with allowing third party app stores on Windows? How would Valve recoup the
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by margana 2y ago
It's almost as if Apple's strategy is to keep switching out their illegal schemes for different illegal schemes to make EU keep having to restart their investigations indefinitely.
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by margana 2y ago
They have the opportunity to stop breaking the law. If they don't choose to do that, they face punitive damages. It has never been unusual for punitive damages to exceed the proceeds gained from breaking the law. That's why they&#
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by margana 2y ago
This is not correct. At least in most (did not check every country) countries that do not directly elect the head of state, the head of government (who is directly elected) is the council member instead. Edit: of the 27 council members who
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by margana 2y ago
For any regulation or directive to pass, it needs to pass both the Parliament and the Council. Passing the Council means it needs unanimous approval from every member country. I don't see what "blocking majority" the article
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by margana 2y ago
Let's be real here, there is no risk of losing publishers over not bending the knee to publishers over unreasonable demands (such as banning entire accounts). Publishers have been trying to stay off Steam for much more strategic reaso
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by margana 3y ago
It is also reasonable for any client to say they are not going to involve themselves with a platform that will freeze their account and cause them to lose data because some faulty heuristic triggered and the company is not even willing to m
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by margana 3y ago
Openness is about people being able to run their own software on hardware that they buy. It is a completely unreasonable argument to state that "if you want to run your own software, first build your own hardware".
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by margana 3y ago
While Windows itself may be proprietary, it mostly runs on fairly open hardware. Open in the sense that the manufacturer doesn't impose artificial limitations on what software is allowed to run on it, and also provides very thorough do
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by margana 3y ago
> Do you think an open source group could build an Apple watch? This is such a dishonest argument. Which part of the parent post talked about building hardware? It's all about the hardware being open to run any software without arti
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by margana 3y ago
Maybe you'll understand it when I replace one inalienable right with another in that sentence: "I don't get how it makes me worse off if someone else voluntarily consents to selling themselves to slavery?"
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by margana 3y ago
The news sites I frequent are doing something slightly different though. Some of them are detecting adblockers and give a similar popup saying "either you subscribe or turn off adblocker". This is fine as they don't force you
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by margana 3y ago
Even if they were allowed to ask for a fee, they would not be allowed to set conditions that they can subjectively rule on. Particularly the "in good standing with Apple" is a blatant violation since it effectively lets them block
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by margana 3y ago
That's fine. Not every citizen has to actively use every right made available to them by the law. That doesn't diminish its value for the ones who do need it.
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by margana 3y ago
People seemingly keep forgetting that you can have direct installs and alternate stores on Android but somehow Play Store is still dominant.
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by margana 3y ago
It doesn't matter what Apple says on this topic, the final say on how to interpret DMA lies with the CJEU. The text of the law says Apple must offer the "EU mode" to "end users established or located in the Union".
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by margana 3y ago
Epic already made assurances that they'd follow the terms of the agreement before their account was terminated. It did it very professionally and concisely. Apple basically responded with "we wanted a 10-page essay equivalent to g
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by margana 3y ago
The exact wording is "end users established or located in the Union". I haven't looked up exactly what "established" is defined as in this case, but it may have broader implications than merely "living in the E
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by margana 3y ago
It wasn't lost though. Collective defense commitments are much stronger in NATO, which UK is still a part of, than they are in EU.
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by margana 3y ago
> EU jurisdiction ends at EU borders. EU law applies to Apple or its subsidiaries operating in Europe. As long as Apple itself stays within EU borders, the law applies to them. It stops applying to them when they exit the EU market. The
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by margana 3y ago
The EU law here applies to Apple, not to you. Apple remains in the EU for as long as they have entities in the EU or operate in the EU. Thus Apple must follow EU law for as long as they have not exited the EU market completely.
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by margana 3y ago
It specifically says "end users established or located in the Union". It sounds to me like Apple did not fully understand the definition of "established" and took the classic route of "if I don't understand it,
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by margana 3y ago
The EU does not answer to a higher authority, therefore only the copyright law of EU applies to itself. They can make any modifications to EU copyright law to make certain things lawful for themselves to publish, and then publish them.
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by margana 3y ago
Saying "EU Court" is also non-ambiguous, as ECHR is not an EU institution, but a CoE (Council of Europe) institution.

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