this will kill yt-dlp if it succeeds

If the concept of rent must exist, at least have it go to the government.

Really depends, imo. Local municipalities? Sure, but that’s a decade-long fight to make it widespread throughout the nation. Welcome to democracy where one party is more than happy to work across the aisle with fascists. Federal? I can just imagine the Trump executive order firing all workers and the terrible outcome that may ensue.

Renting a home to live in is theft. Work with that example in your head, not cars or uhauls. Not many people say hotels are theft (though, it’s worth considering as well)

Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million

“The legal action, originally filed in 2024 by digital rights campaigner Vicki Shotbolt”

Vicki is a leading campaigner for children’s digital rights, with over 20 years of senior leadership experience in national charities. She is the founder and CEO of Parent Zone, an organisation that works with families and global brands to improve the lives of children in today’s digital world.

(Source: https://steamyouoweus.co.uk/about-us/)

That is why Valve is being sued for 900 million. Because Vicki Shotbolt wanted to. Why did she want to? Here is her claim (in her own words, not mine):

But Steam’s prices appear to be the lowest?

Steam can offer the lowest prices because of the anti-competitive price restrictions that Valve often imposes on game developers and producers (the Price Parity Obligations). This means a publisher or developer would not be able to list a game on another platform as well as Steam, unless the prices offered on Steam is the same or lower. This applies to games on all other distribution stores (including online and physical stores) not just those distributed by Steam Keys. This allows Valve to maintain the monopoly position it has for PC Games as there is not real incentive for gamers to go elsewhere where a game may be cheaper (which would then in turn enable those other platforms to improve).

It is also not possible to offer add-on content on other distribution platforms for cheaper or at an earlier time: this limits the ability of rivals to compete on price and enables Valve to charge the consumer higher prices in the absence of competition. The claim argues that the add-on content is a separate product, and that through the price restrictions and inability to purchase add-on content from another distribution platform or the developer itself Valve has illegally tied these products and limited consumer choice. Consumers must then purchase via Steam and pay its commission charge.

In the UK, dominant companies are not allowed to charge excessive prices. The claim argues that Valve’s commission rate of up to 30% is excessive given: competitors lower commission rates; the way the platform operates for the consumer; and the high level of profit that Valve is making absent a viable competitor (which its behaviour directly restricts as developers are not permitted to list games at lower prices on competing platforms). This unfair commission charge is paid for by the consumer.

"[…] but Epic Games wasn’t sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?

Steam has a much easier claim to be considered a monopoly. It’s a little like (note: I never said it’s exactly like or it is very much like—I only said it’s a little like) Chrome being a monopoly for web browsers—everyone chooses to install chrome on their computers when they install a PC and prefer not to use the pre-installed Edge or Safari. Very few people install Epic games, much like very few people install Firefox. If you want to game on PC, you pretty much have to install Steam to play with your friends you know? Otherwise you’re kinda lame and don’t have friends.

To all you libs on lemmy: “If it don’t apply, let it fly” as they say. If you think this post isn’t about you, it isn’t about you. If this post is about you, maybe consider why that’s an issue.

The big picture is health insurance and food corporations have captured our political and legal process, I agree. It needs completely rooting out, and anyone against it, republican or democrat, should be removed from office. Citizens United and any other form of legal corporate money in politics needs gutting.

white middle class people, and then other middle class people. Do you not know anyone in their 40s or older with a family?

the libs dont want to hear they may have been abused by their party.

Ain’t no way anyone makin 12 million a year settling for me 🤣

How would a person build a properly FOSS games store

Never in the history of software has people been able to deliver software over the internet in an easy way until Steam came out. It was revolutionary. People cried and shit their pants with the sudden and seismic shift that occurred. Every other form of software delivery pales in comparison to the Steam app.

If I make a game, I will package it for flatpak if I can. Hopefully there is some way for me to distribute that on Linux. I can’t imagine how it would happen though… woe is me. Don’t look at flathub!

And don’t look at Itch.io either since none of it is open source at all. Don’t look at the itch.io github. Don’t look at its package delivery system that is so much worse than Steam. Don’t look at it! It is bad! Stop looking at open source software that competes with the value proposition of Steam!

And then there’s the Steam interface. It is made in React.js and we all know that FOSS cannot use React.js. There are not enough FOSS react devs out there to compete, so unfortunately Valve will just always produce better software than the FOSS world. It is inevitable. FOSS GUIs that equal or surpass closed-source commercial giants? Never happened once, never will happen in the future.

I’m not at all shitting on you specifically. There’s just a mindset of “we can’t even try” that exists out there on lemmy and reddit and the greater web that I really hate.

When the vegetarian option becomes cheaper and tastes just as good though, continuing to eat the meat version is an explicit choice.

adam and eve were white? TIL

why isnt an octet stream http? it absolutely works lol. web browsers only know http not some random protocol from the server

No one actually believes this, they just say it on the internet and it gets upvoted.

CEOs aren’t often billionaires, they 100% do the whipping for them though

I used to be over 300lbs a year ago, I’m 170 now after a lot of work. That may be true for most, but 10 years ago my body was horrific

head of ai marketing

free advertising on lemmy, nice

I am utterly baffled as to why any Canadian

You succumbed to the ethnic colonial kool-aid (nationalism) fed to you in school and subsequently believe all people of a nation are culturally the same. You have never been to Alberta. There are ‘dumb redneck’ equivalents in every nation everywhere. It’s silly to think dumb canadians don’t exist, unless you have a strange image of canada which doesn’t include Alberta

I coulda said that way more politely but I’m hangry and hate nationalism and what it does to people when they were children

as an early 90s-born millennial near the upper limit of gen z, it’s been great seeing them discover mid 20s aging as I enter my early 30s :) it doesn’t stop Gen Z. You keep on aging from here on out. I remember thinking the 70s were only 30 years ago, and the 80s only 20.

It sure is different, but the people in charge dont know or care to know