Interesting idea. But this NEEDS to apply to movies as well, or really any digital purchase. How often do we see where you've "bought" a movie and years later the licensing changes. Boom, suddenly you no longer own it, it disappears from your libraries because licensing changed, and you have no financial recourse.

That right there is why I default to buying actual physical copies of media.

I was wondering the same thing. I'm picturing a hail storm with golf ball size hail coming at 10,000+ mph. Ouch! How did the ship manage to not be hit and punctured?!?

TikTok took in $39 billion in 2024. So this is like, what, five minutes worth of revenue?

Nothing will change. That fine isn't even big enough to be a rounding error.

Man-made climate change, of course. Quick! Someone raise my taxes!

Well, that'd be one way to increase IPv6 adoption!

Is this real?!?

Like, really really for real?

For once, IT WASN'T DNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Disney needs to feel the pain and stop gouging folks.

Oh wait, $4.3 million a day? That's like, what, two or three Disney World tickets, right?

It's not DNS!

It's not DNS!

I promise it's not DNS!

Dammit, it's DNS...

As in, these multi $billion companies have only themselves to blame. All the penny-pinching to placate shareholders does no good when the company dries up because all the customers gave them the middle finger.

BNSF Railway laid off a couple hundred mechanical folks on Monday. They dumped about 450 mechanical folks a year and a half ago too.

It's not just white collar.

I mean, like the shareholders. Are all Boeing's shareholders OK? Obviously the passengers/crew and some people on the ground are dead, but won't someone think of the shareholders?!?

So the merchant, in what used to be called a "free" country, cannot sneak in any fees whatsoever.

But the GOVERNMENT can!

If you're going to mandate honest pricing, it should absolutely include every government fee and tax as well. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

THERE's the problem.

I freaking HATE those things.

Give me actual physical cash, or at least an actual physical gift card/Visa card and the results will be different.

Wow.

That is absolutely provably demonstrably FALSE.

Reddit is by far the deepest and most expansive leftist cesspool on the planet. It makes a DNC convention look like a Sunday morning Catholic mass.

So, what you are saying is also...

The CNN/MSNBC/CNBC/etc propaganda machine is paid for by every American who buys a cable package.