So for what, 100 million people vs 8 billion, it’s a problem.

I’ll take that.

Honestly? If anyone could make a rival for YouTube it would be a big porn hosting site.

The infrastructure is already there. Just need to buy another domain and throw money at it.

Depends on who you are.

If you often discover music and searches for songs, your method is not the experience prefered.

If you always listen to your playlists, and sometimes want to add a new one, yours work great.

What everyone really wants, is a player that autodownloads and plays while downloadning, like with torrents, and then gives the option to auto remove after x days or keep forever. Everything happening under the hood.

Otherwise I’m afraid it will keep away most people.

I’m talking about all the opinions already made up, that EU wanted to take away encryption and give us chat control.

They didnt want that.

It’s like saying Denmark wants to throw out all immigrants, just because a small minority is proposing it. They dont.

Democracy is just great for media outlets, because they can bandwagon stupid proposals.

Luckily it’s not the same body in the EU who’s in charge of enforcing AND setting up proposals.

The EU is not a “one opinion” government body.

They usually sue if the practice doesnt stop for over a year. They do send warnings before anything official comes out FYI.

But I dont know if they want to do anything though. No one but them and Apple knows for sure.

Google hit by EU lawsuit in 3… 2… 1…

Great points.

I think when we talk about these ideologies, the point is often being made, that it’s not true socialism for example.

Which I personally think is not that relevant to go into, because we dont have true democracy either. Nor true capitalism.

It is also hard to have internet debates about them, because the topics are so complex to understand when they are in use.

Even to understand how the Nordics work and why, cant be explained with all the characters available in a post.

I think there’s a middle ground. It’s not all or nothing.

We can have million dollar studios without having a billion dollar studio.

That’s true, which also illustrates how absurd the big paychecks are with your post in mind.

So it could be called socialist if you look at certain aspects of the economical foundation.

They DO have no ownership of private companies, which is socialist thinking, but they also dont have private ownership for the people, which is not.

But North Korea is special. They call themselves socialist, but in reality they invented their own ideology called Songun. It means “military first”.

The “spirit of the law” in socialism is also for the country to work for the people. But you can argue with Songun, every single thing is done for military power. Not power to the people - nor for the people.

So yeah, North Korea calls themselves socialist (because they like to be friends with China), but they act like a authoritarin military dictatorship - or Songun.

Sure.

The premise is to bring down costs, and not be free. This is a reality where we can share media we buy, because we own them again.

So you can kind of imagine the world 20-30 years back with VHS and DVDs. Just in the digital world.

Fewer people would buy the content, and less shareholders will be rich. Actors will also not go for multi million dollar salaries. But actors would still exist.

You can argue that this will bring down the number of movies, but most likely there will just be alot of small studios making movies instead of Netflix and Disney controlling the market from start to end.

There will be a much larger varaity in movies, and not that many reboots of past succes from the VHS/DVD age.

That’s like saying “which of the orange and the apple is not a fruit.”

But to try to answer what I think you are asking, North Korea is a communist dicatorship controlled by one family. Kind of how Kings worked in the old days.

And China is an authoritarian one-party state.

North Korea does not have a privatized sector. China does. North Korea is not socialist by definition, and China is.

Sometimes it’s hard to imagine a reality outside our own.

Putting China and North Korea in the same booth shows how little you know about this subject.

Communism without a dictatorship is yet to be seen at large scale. That would be interesting to compare.

And you also dont have to go ALL IN on communism. You can absoluty choose sectors, that will never be private, and have private sectors that will be regulated by giving the workers more power and owners much less.

There’s so many nuances.

They tried so hard to make socialism a bad word. And non of their voters know one single thing of what it is.

Spoiler: it’s from the countries doing better than you.

They just love whoever pays the most. And they cheat on everyone while getting paychecks from all directions.

Fun fact about military-grade.

It means jack shit. It’s a marketing buzz word, and should be illegal to use in commercial sense.