People who don’t pirate already are fools.
Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV
Teon@kbin.social 5 months ago
Sounds like a class action lawsuit waiting to happen.
Imagine that you pay for an ad free streaming service through your roku, like HBO for example. And now you have ads streaming over it?
People will sue for a way to disable it over ad free paid content.
Also, this will lead to way more pirating. People are sick of advertisements.
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 5 months ago
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Let 'm pirate. Teach them how to do it better even.
Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Even if people sue, doesn’t mean they have any legal grounds to win. What law is Roku breaking? You can’t sue your TV manufacturer for not being 4k when you pay for 4k content. Your content display technology has the right to display content how they see fit.
I see this as a job for the free market. As consumers we need to show Roku how we feel about that.
NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If I purchase a TV, that I now own, and after I own it the company “updates” my TV that I now have to watch ads in order to use the TV I purchased without that condition?
At minimum it’s a breach of contract
GooseFinger@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Their recent ToS update: “We bricked your TV until you ‘consent’ to waiving your right to sue us if we do something illegal. Also, we won’t tell you what you’re consenting to up front, instead we’ll make you spend hours reading through pages and pages of legal garbage to find where we buried this statement.”
They know that nobody would agree to this if they put it in big bold letters right above the “agree” button, so they bury it behind hours of tedious reading so that people cave in and just “consent.”
If you roofy someone’s drink and pester them until they “consent” to sex, you would get thrown and jail and probably shanked in the liver. If Roku bricks the TV that you purchased and won’t let it work again until you consent to something that you’re nearly guaranteed to miss or not understand by design, their profits go up because people can’t sue them.
This capitalism hellhole can’t burn down fast enough.
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The free free market requiring a cool hat and tropical bird.
Kedly@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The free market has failed dude. THIS IS THE RESULT of it!
Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Capitalism and our current implementation has many failings. A company making a really shitty anti-consumer decision when there are plenty of alternative competitors and options is not one of them.
Kedly@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Capitalism rewards the most ruthless pursuits of money. Without regulations monopolies, shit products, and the cheapest wages possible are the end results of it as those are the most efficient ways to get as much profit as possible.
mPony@lemmy.world 5 months ago
a job for the free market
Hey, as long as there is a way for ordinary people to attend shareholders meetings in person and have direct physical access to the humans who made these decisions, I’m sure everything will work out in the end.
Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Is that how you think the free market is supposed to work? People don’t get to decide how companies operate. They have every right to create a shitty product. As long as there’s room for competition to punish them for that bad decision.
Holyginz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lol, wake up man, the free market hasn’t been free for years now.
KillerTofu@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes the free market always wins!
whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
That’ll be why they just pushed a “agree to our new license with arbitrage or your tv is a brick” update