Re:Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made an...
by cma on Monday April 26, 2021 @01:57PM
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Not illegal unless it is monopoly abuse somehow.
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Re:Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made an...
by fuzzer37 on Monday April 26, 2021 @03:09PM
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Well it is monopoly abuse.
Re:Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made an...
by cma on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @12:11AM
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How? They have bargaining power with a monopoly share. But it really saves bandwidth and avoids patent fees to unrelated companies. What part is the abuse? Should they have to support mpeg1 too if someone wants to use an old chip at enormous bandwidth costs?
If it is about their DRM and not their freely licensed VP9 then I could see where it get into abuse if competitors can't use it. And I see where standing up the music service using youtube and messing up the system voice search is abusive.