Buddy, this is econ 100. This applies to nearly every business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

If you look at the chart there, the equilibrium price is where the supply line and the demand line cross. Assuming supply remains the same, if demand decreases, the equilibrium price will decrease.

If supply increases, and demand decreases, price goes way down.

Wiki probably explains it better.

I mean maybe technically (I’m sure it varies depending on country). But I’m not aware of any cases where they’ve ever pursued anyone for that.

It’s definitely a grey area in the US, I believe (again, no precedent set), and someone with a good lawyer could actually get a good ruling here, which would set the precedent. Which is probably why they never pursue it. I think that happened with VHS when people were taping shows in the 80s/90s (could be misremembering that).

The concept of “fair use” in general (not referring to specific interpretations of the term) definitely allows you to do this. At least how I interpret it. I am not a lawyer.

So if it were me, I’d only be concerned with the ethics, and I see nothing ethically wrong with it whatsoever. But that’s just me.

If you own the physical DVD, fair use allows you to own a backup copy, so torrenting it in that case would not be unethical nor illegal.

Trolling is not a political ideology

No, that’s not how it works. You’ve provided a chart that shows average prices for a specific point in time. That’s it. They are constantly fluctuating, and the price is based on supply and demand.

You don’t get to charge 3x for an egg just because it’s 3x the size. I mean, you can try, but people will not buy it unless that’s the equilibrium price. There is no rule stating that price must increase by the same amount as the size of the thing. That’s silly.

A thing is worth what people are willing to pay for it. Goose eggs simply aren’t as popular as chicken eggs, therefore the demand is lower. Assuming supply remains stable, that means price goes down.

Your time is valuable too. You should be factoring in the amount of additional work required to upkeep.

I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE

They want to pay less than three times the cost of a chicken egg, even though geese only lay during the spring and only lay every other day.

That’s not how markets work though…

y’like dags?

Um, justices don’t owe the president who selected them any favors

Yeah, that’s not how it works here anymore.

What’s the problem? Should those features only be available to people who know about jailbreaking? It seems like the pressure caused Apple to actually spend some money to add useful features that people obviously wanted. What’s the bad thing here?

This is how brain-broken capitalism has made people… The concept of an effective government actually regulating a company and forcing them to spend more money to do the thing they should be doing is just completely foreign to you.

Capitalism. Next question…

Digg was never better than reddit.

This faux concern about the debt is so fucking disingenuous, and I wish people would stop claiming it because you’re embarrassing yourselves.

Republicans are ALWAYS worse for the debt.

Wish people would stop blaming this on ketamine, a dissociative drug that is very safe (used on children and small animals for surgery), and that typically has the exact opposite effect of how Elon is behaving.

This is 100% him. This is in spite of the ketamine.

I remember back when that referrer thing happened and people on reddit were tripping over themselves to justify it and explain why it’s actually ok… What a joke.

Is this dude schizophrenic or something? What the fuck does he mean “Irish only apply”?

These people have swallowed a lot of big lies and the fault is with the liars.

These people are adults and are responsible for their beliefs and actions.

Obama hasn’t been president for nearly a decade.

And there are a lot of things to criticize him about, but he legitimately tried to close Guantanamo, and was blocked by Republicans (and possibly some Democrats?) over and over.