Incomprehensible/overcomplicated ToS already get declared as void every now and then by a competent court, so they aren’t really enforceable.

They should be forced to have a simplified part and a jurist part.

This will never work. Most of the time they are this complicated to cover any potential loopholes from every angle and point of view.

Offering a simplified version will just lead to some idiot exploiting a loophole that doesn’t exist in the juristic version and once that case goes to court we have the issue of what version counts for the average consumer.

If we preface this by saying only the juristic one is legally binding and you have to read it either way, then the simplified one lost its purpose.

Who is the simplified version even meant for? Pretty much no one reads ToS, the only ones doing so will have some kind of business relations. Be it the ToS of their Software or their supplier, they will need the juristic version either way.

Besides all that, most Software ToS are at least comprehensible if you take a few seconds to think about what you read.

This isn’t about server costs or infrastructure, but rather about licensing rights and artist payments.

Spotify pays 70% of its revenue to artists and despite that most of them are still severely underpaid compared to their listening times. They could pay artists 5-10% more I’d they give up all profit they make, but that’s about it. You already pay artists less than 1ct per song, if that’s still too much or not is for you to decide.

Youtube Premium works cause they pay creators even less while showering every non-premium watcher with ads every 5 minutes.

Netflix has an entirely different business model. They only pay an initial license fee for a finished series. The artists/studio already got paid, the price negotiations is purely between Netflix and a few big publishers. Due to that they can calculate if a series will bring in a profit and only then decide to buy the license for a period of time. Due to that their offer, while it may seem large, is just a tiny fraction compared to Spotify or YouTube.

Now to Spotifys books. I’m not sure what their exact business model is, but either they buy the license for the books or they allow others to sell their books directly on their platform. Whatever it is, its a huge increase in costs for them. Either Spotify has the big upfront license cost that they try to get back by gaining new customers or premium allows you to “rent” a book which means Spotify still has to pay the creator even if you didn’t pay them anything.

Taking the extra money from the already existing premium subscription won’t work. Artists are already underpaid, reducing that even further will lead to them leaving Spotify.

Premium is pretty much only for music, the audio book part is more like a free demo. Including them in the normal premium sub is unsustainable.

They didn’t fit the agenda so they had to be removed.

The first crack took around 4 days.

The only difference us that cheats now cost more money than before.

I’d much rather have the USA as a world leader, but considering that neither if them are anywhere near that level of control, giving my data to China is the better option.

If the US has my data and the worst case happens, i.e. anything in my data labels me as a terrorist (let’s be honest, nothing else matters to the NSA, they don’t care about your day to day life), then the possibility is high that my own government gets a hint and I’m locked up pretty quickly.

If China has my data the worst case is that I can’t set foot into China, that’s it.

Both options are shit, but having their data in China means less possible harm for anyone that isn’t a Chinese or Russian citizen.

On what server side? If 1 in 100 sites asks for your ID, then you simply use the other 99 that don’t. There are so many clones of different porn sites that don’t give a single fuck about regulations, why would they care about that law.