• Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    So Sony bought the competition, then shut down their own offering…

    I understand this sucks from an accessibility perspective, but also, how the FUCK is this not anti competitive?

    • the_q@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Money. If you have enough laws, rules, ethics whatever become non issues.

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        9 months ago

        I mean, yeah, agreed, they’re not going to actually get any repurcussions, obviously. I meant more, why aren’t articles/people mad about it. We all know the laws don’t apply to them

    • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      How is this not a contractual violation? If you buy a company, you take on their contracts. You don’t get to throw them out the window.

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        9 months ago

        actually, you typically do. the company you made the contract with doesn’t exist anymore.

        also a ‘forever’ contract for ‘cloud’ (someone else’s computer) services is only as good as that other person’s computer stays on. anyone who thought that meant more than a few years, or that it would mean after the company stopped existing deserves whatever they get.