The comment you replied to never mentioned customer, which is the advertisers. The discussion is about the consumer which is the end user that uses the search browser/search engine.

You cannot, because it is not broken. Just because you don't like the direction the company may be going, does not mean that the product is broken. It is working exactly as Roku intends it to. You may not like the functionality, but it is still functioning correctly.

If Facebook had purchased a copy (and perhaps paid a license fee from the authors) then they would have been fine to use the works for their AI. But since they torrented pirated copies, the authors were denied that revenue.

How do you legally verify a person's "highly limited means"? Do they need to submit a copy of their (foreign) income tax return to Disney (and Warner Bros, Fox, etc) to prove they have no money? That is just silly.

This is exactly the direction the streaming companies want to go. They want to switch all of the commercial-free customers into ad-watching customers, because for every ad they show you before/during a show, they get money. So they get the (sometimes) lower monthly fee, but they get paid every time you watch a show.

I'm guessing you failed at humor.

> I bought a dozen of empty prepaid SIM cards for $1 on EBay to put Whatsapp on cheap tablets for the grannies in the family, after setting up, you can throw them way. Stupid system.

You have 12 grandmothers? How is that possible?

No company ever improves any product without pressure. That pressure can be from customers, or competitors or regulations. But it nobody is complaining about the product, why change it?

The mayor already has a plan for that. He owns a construction company!

You are correct that they wanted to make money by selling consulting, support and hosting services for their product.

The problem was, that other companies can also sell consulting, support and hosting services for software that they did not produce. That is what their license change means. If you run Terraform in your own company, and do not sell that as a service, then the license change would not affect you.

That conclusion was that Microsoft used its Monopoly to tie in other software components (i.e.Internet Explorer) into the operating system.

Microsoft appealed this, and a higher court sided with Microsoft, and made a settlement where they no longer were seeking to break up Microsoft.

So no, Microsoft was never broken up for being a Monopoly.

Dont go outside either...

Yeah, but can it run Crysis? [This joke brought to you from 2007]

Just like how the CRL for a website cert is included in the certificate, the certificate could also include the DNS verification in the cert also. Those DNS servers would be for the CA.

It could be designed so that the DNS server would always have a response. The response might be a message saying that there are not any expired certs, or a list of expired serials. The browser would require that the DNS server respond with an answer, and that the website cert is not in the list. If the DNS response is blocked, then the website should not load, or should warn the user that the certificate cannot be validated.