We had a choice when there were alternative clients for all major platforms. Make open APIs mandatory for large platforms and a lot of problems will disappear. UIs will be designed for the best user experience again instead of maximizing engagement. It will hurt their revenue but so be it.

This has got to be rejected by any court that has not been completely corrupted.

What will the end game in this licensing scheme be? I reckon once enough movies have been sold, the reputational damage of taking them away would become so large that streaming services will be strongarmed into accepting increasingly unreasonable fees.

This is exactly what will happen.

I can still see that black and white splash screen in my head. Computers were so magical back then.

I used to support DTP, and graphics for the systems house at which I worked. I travelled round the UK installing PageMaker and A4 paper-white CRT displays - boy were they heavy!

My endearing memory is calling the company in Edinburgh for technical support, to be greeted on the phone by a lady with a lovely, cheery Scottish accent announcing "Aldus UK".

Fun fact: I was first person in the UK to print in colour on an HP ink jet printer at the trade show where they were first demonstrated. The HP folks hadn't got the official colour driver ready for the show, so the HP guys were printing in mono, but I'd had an advanced model to try and hacked some other print driver to work with it.

And then they will take away your right to boot whatever you want. For national security reasons and the children, of course.

The older manual rear view mirrors worked much better in my opinion.

A task force of former nuclear fusion scientists has been established to fix bluetooth audio quality for once and forever.

Invalidate every patent that is older than the maximum lifetime allowed by law, and you'll see it magically fix itself up.

Come on! Get real!

I don’t know about the US, but in UK and the EU they are certainly trying to do just that. And if not today, the will simply cook us slowly a little longer until they succeed. The problem is, that regular people just don’t care enough.

It’s almost like they need these to exist.