Re:Apple’s crackdown on multicast
by DaiPlusPlus on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @08:50AM
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Apple will never publicly admit to the possibility of rooting their devices, especially not to allow bypassing DRM: they'd lose all their friends in Hollywood overnight.
Disney is an enormous company, owning pretty much everything in the media world, dwarfing other hollywood companies.
It has a Market Cap of $320b, way bigger than Sony, Time Warner, Viacom and MGM put together.
Apple on the other hand is worth about 7 times as much as Disney.
Yes, but a non-insignificant portion of their revenue comes from content from third-party media companies. They very much have an incentive to play ball with the likes of Disney & Sony, despite having the upper hand in terms of market cap.
In that sense, you do own an Apple product. But if you want to stay in their nice little walled garden, that ownership is more like buying a house that comes with a benevolent dictatorship HSA.