Researching, writing, and hosting aren't free. It sounds like now that AI-driven search no longer relays messages from a site's sponsors, you would prefer that all the major news organizations go out of business. Then who would have the privilege of asking follow-up questions to the press secretaries of the executive branches of governments?

Exclusive syndication of subscription video on demand (SVOD) was mostly a problem before most of the studios started their own SVOD services, and before everybody but Disney pulled out of Hulu (which was originally a joint venture).

I don't understand how that helps if the band never comes near your city, or if the band plays venues that forbid guests under 21 years of age and then stops touring before you (or your teenage children) turn 21. I also fail to understand what the counterpart to touring is for media other than live music, such as electronic music or TV series or web video series or video games. Who can help?

That's fine until one of several things happens. One is a film and its sequel being exclusive to different services, which I'm told is true of Dune. Another is services hiking the monthly rate to offer a deeper discount when paying for a year up front. "Buy 3 months, get 9 free!" A third is when your friend group keeps mentioning a film or TV series that's not available on any streaming service in your country.

For the task of comparing and contrasting 27 film and TV adaptations of a 19th century children's novel by C. Collodi[1] or 7 adaptations of a 1930s Christmas story by Robert L. May,[2] cycling among services each month isn't quite as practical.

[1] "Ranking Every Version of Pinocchio" by There Will Be Fudd, 2022-12-03
[2] "I Watched Every Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Special" by TheHappySpaceman Reviews, 2024-01-27

Good luck with that when the shipping courier (such as USPS or UPS) and the trading platform (such as eBay) take half of what you're selling it for.

So long as the movie or TV series is lawfully available on disc in your region. I can think of a lot of things that aren't. The film Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night was released on VHS but not on DVD or BD in North America. The TV series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea never got a North American home video release at all.

Magazines and newspapers have had the combination of ads and a cover price for longer than I've been alive.

So when it's time to cut back because the economy is collapsing thanks to absolutely terrible public policy and a big automation push, the second thing you do is cut your private school services and switch to public school, and public school might have this e-learning crap.

Video streaming services are greedy to the extent that they are willing to pay a studio more for an exclusive license to a particular work as opposed to letting all the competing streaming services offer the same work as well. (The nonexclusive arrangement is more common in music streaming.)

Until you get to college and you're given a list of required textbooks and required reading in a humanities class. Or until the government, a public utility, or some other monopoly on an essential service requires a particular brand of proprietary operating system to run an application through which to access said service. This could be Windows or macOS on desktop, or Android with Google Play* or iOS on mobile.

* Though Android Open Source Project is free software, many popular applications require Google Play Services, which is proprietary and lawfully available only preinstalled on a handset.

I wonder if they realize that the money they get through deals like his are still subject to Congressional budgetary controls. The Reagan administration didnâ(TM)t either ( or chose to ignore the constitutional limits on presidential power) when they tried to use money from clandestine sales of arms to the Iranians to set up a fund they could use to spend without Congressional control.

You still need a first job to afford the bus ticket and hotel room.

GoTeam disagrees in this comment, with my emphasis:

our HR is a disaster. They don't post jobs they way we ask them to, and the people they do give us resumes for are mostly unqualified or out of state

How do most new graduates cover the cost of moving to another state in order to qualify for interviews in that state?

With respect to Call of Duty games: Yes. Games supporting Xbox Live on the original Xbox console are no longer playable online. Games for PlayStation 2 had a trend of closing even earlier with DNAS error -103 "This software title is not in service."

And with respect to recent games: The publisher of the game Concord closed its sole server less than a month after release.

And with respect to recent games that rely on Windows security technologies: Players of Marvel Rivals on Linux and macOS got banned from the game's sole server for a century until server administrators had to reverse the bans manually. If you want more examples, I can provide them by searching DuckDuckGo for linux games ban site:slashdot.org.

I suspect that grandparent means that the concept of an "unsupported platform" is itself anticompetitive. I certainly believe it is. If a paying licensee can technically make a computer program work on a particular platform, it ought not to be the publisher's privilege to arbitrarily ban said licensee for using said program on said platform.

I work for Retrotainment Games, and we sell pixel art games for about $10 to $15 on Steam* or $60 on cartridge.

* Disclaimer: A paid download on Steam or a major game console's download store is not a sale of a copy as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code.

Probably the same phenomenon as when a publisher's system confuses Steam Deck users who do not cheat with cheaters.