Accounts receivable can be expensive, at a certain point it becomes more profitable to write off the debt for tax credits.

Can’t afford New Zealand?

It really isn’t a different debate when you’re talking about putting them on the blockchain, and all that other engineering has already been done by other distributed social networks.

Trust, consensus, and access control are session-layer issues that don’t need to be solved by a transport-layer protocol. Social networks deserve to be able to forget things.

We already have that, it’s called a Distributed Hash Table, no blockchain required.

knockoffs like Brave

No worries, I’m merely confident that the tradeoffs necessary to employ a blockchain aren’t worth the supposed benefits thereof.

What if we don’t want global usernames? What if we’re entirely satisfied with global user IDs in a DHT?

Seems inefficient, couldn’t the same thing be accomplished using local DBs rather than the world’s most inefficient ledger?

I’d have to hire somebody just to keep track of all the commissioned works. =D

Good, get it all offline so the LLM Assholes can’t use it.

Lol, worst autocorrect ever. XD

Parole.

It’ll take years to build up trust again, they need to avoid squandering what little goodwill they have left (from people with memories too short to recall the Sony Music rootkit debacle).

The black mark stays on their permanent record, but they have an opportunity to demonstrate that they have actually reformed and aren’t just saying the right things to mitigate the current PR disaster.

To avoid upsetting people in the first place.

If you change your review, they’ll know they can pull shit like this again and you’ll still give them money.

Deciding not to do the unpopular thing that was costing your shareholders money isn’t deserving of praise. The fact that such a backlash was necessary to force their hand in the first place is proof that Sony has not learned their lesson.

Good. Sony should be afraid of burning their review scores so badly that they can’t recover.

If they refuse to cooperate then they deserve to lose market share over forcing unpopular choices on their customers and potential customers.

Because at that point they can just write off the game for a tax rebate.

Stop giving Sony any money.

Therefore, stop giving them money.

Correction, the object of our ire isn’t “people”, but the Sony corporation which has repeatedly demonstrated that it cannot be trusted. This is not a “legitimate attempt to change”, this is a reluctant policy rollback.