Someone should make a web application which allows users to submit reports of inappropriate behaviour from companies so we can avoid buying products from those companies which have demonstrated anti-customer behaviour. I mean, they're telling us they don't value us - the best thing we can do is listen and spread the word. Surely that's what they want.

It's not worth licensing evil-business-plan because the licensing costs are guaranteed but it's entirely possible that courts may decide they've independently discovered their own, similar, form of evil-business-plan and so costs are not guaranteed :-)

I really wonder why games specifically were getting a discount in the first place?

The effect is to hook them in when it's affordable then bait-and-switch FTW!

McGarbage

Is it reasonable for a (chain of-) provider(s) to suddenly increase licensing costs? Surely the work has been done already.

I'm not sure "we've suddenly become much greedier" or "we think you can be coerced into paying more now your business depends on our fixed-effort-ongoing-cost product" are customer problems.

The licensing cost used to attract a customer should get locked-in until something fundamental changes.

I'd be interested to see if writers could put their energies into imagining the best possible futures, would governments implement the changes needed to converge on these.

I envisage a world without the music industry.

I'm going to generalise and say that any concentration of control is automatically bad - humanity excels at finding creative solutions because of individual differences. Once differences are legislated away, something is lost - just look at the effect of government.

There's no need for the music industry - recording, distribution, promotion are all within the reach of individuals as are voice coaches, tour organisation, etc

Now they're no longer needed they've metastised into an entirely self-serving bull-in-a-china shop - using their financial resources to dominate traditional airplay, influence politics, and generally act as a malign influence on humanity.

Music Industry: Do the world a favour - shift your focus to an area where it's needed.

How about the judge shuts down the record labels?

How much longer are they going to monetise and police a form of expression as old as humanity as if they invented it?

How much longer are they going to prey on young women to ensure overt sexuality is a prerequisite for a chance of a music career?

Insert your gripe below...

For some reason I can hear the theme song from Star Trek Enterprise whilst reading this.

Are existing records of political donations accompanied by exhaustive details of which legislation has been paid for?

I think that writers of dystopian novels should take the hint that governments are tone-deaf when it comes to warnings of how bad things could get - instead seeing every prediction of bad things as an implementation manual.

Let's not forget The EU's support for genocidal nutbags - this could be a new growth area given that people are awakening and are less ready to believe government propaganda or outright lies.

Apple should do it but only if the Indian government agrees to allow Apple to introduce arbitrary (*) legislation into the Indian political system that contains potentially-secret clauses.

After all, politics and smartphone operating systems are general skills

(*) from India's perspective - at least legislation which Apple thinks it's best but may not overlap - at all - with India's plans for the country.

I just listened to it - IMO, complete removal of the vocal track would make for a better song.

I wonder if the AI is trying to tell us something with the song title. It's a little similar to "it puts the lotion on its skin". Perhaps the next song will be "Human runs from Robot" ?