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minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoWhy haven’t they broken down bittorrent?
minus-squaremelpomenesclevage@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agothat’s actually hard. and I didn’t say they would. I said it wouldn’t be hard for them.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoWhy would they not do something that’s easy and beneficial to them?
minus-squaremelpomenesclevage@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agobecause they don’t know or care, and there would be non-zero social cost, still larger than the benefit.
minus-square14th_cylon@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agobecause bittorrent is not how you “break up their system”, so they couldn’t really care less. things that would achieve that have to have at least one side of the transaction in the physical world and there they are really easy to deal with.
Why haven’t they broken down bittorrent?
that’s actually hard.
and I didn’t say they would. I said it wouldn’t be hard for them.
Why would they not do something that’s easy and beneficial to them?
because they don’t know or care, and there would be non-zero social cost, still larger than the benefit.
because bittorrent is not how you “break up their system”, so they couldn’t really care less.
things that would achieve that have to have at least one side of the transaction in the physical world and there they are really easy to deal with.