Ok that makes sense, I figured it had to be something like that. They couldn’t possibly think they could legislate a single world market. As nice as that may be.
I guess that leaves me with the big question: why are there multiple markets. Why didn’t Apple just set up an EU one from the start? The shared market has been around longer than Apple has been selling digital stuff.
Maybe it just started out as a way to handle the different languages and sort of evolved to where it is today even though since it’s now more than just music it doesn’t make as much sense?
App Store was/is built on top of the iTunes Store infrastructure which was launched only 10 years after the EU single market was created. And it was designed to support music purchases where licensing by country is the standard.
And these purchases are tied to your credit card which even to this day is pinned to a particular country. This is how Apple largely implements geo-blocking.
I knew it was built on the iTunes Store because I’ve heard stories over the years from developers on podcasts about how sort of creaky it is. It always sounded like they were totally unprepared for the app explosion and not ready to handle that kind of volume in something that was more complicated than a simple song file that never changed.
But shouldn’t music licensing in the EU not have been by country at that point?
Can the median income Indian citizen get such service? Chances are no. This report is about the average case. Extremely rich Americans, just like extremely rich Indians can probably get faster service.
Libraries are able to loan under the first sale doctrine, that is to say that the copyright holder exhausts their right to control the distribution of a copy after the first sale. However, they retain a monopoly on the production of copies.
The issue here is whether this counts as the production of copies and/or whether that production is fair use.
For example, CDs are digital. To play a CD that you own, the player is going to create a copy of the song in memory in order to decode it into an analog signal that can be played on speakers. Then it's going to discard that temporary copy, leaving the CD as the only permanent one. It seems pretty obvious that either that sort of temporary copy doesn't count or that it should be fair use.
But then how is it any different if the temporary copy is on your tablet instead of your CD player?
Yes, that is the normal advice. I smoke so called shorties when I come home from work, I hate being too high but I do enjoy the relaxation weed brings.
I've smoked CBD only strains recently and they do hit the spot as well.
I don't think there were many better hopes out there for ALS. That's why they approved the drug despite weak data supporting it. This outcome is devastating for people with ALS and their families.
As someone with ALS, This drug was prescribed for me by my doctor as equivalent to other ALS medications, namely that they barely slow the progression of the disease. We are talking three to six months of life extension.
You are overselling the effects of this drug harder than the manufacturer did.
Drugs shouldn't be approved on hope. They should be approved on evidence. And there was never any evidence for this one. Just letting it inspire hope was hurting its victims.
You don't have to worry about that, because companies are the ones financing it and if they don't believe the drug have a good chance of working they won't fund it.
I thought that was gone but you’re right, app.ft.com still works and can be installed as a full screen PWA. But the main site, ft.com, isn’t a PWA (or at least, it doesn’t install as a full screen web app). I had assumed they had shut down the PWA, because I haven’t seen any promotion/mention of it for years (and I use ft.com a lot) so I don’t know how regular people would find out about it these days.
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