The 100+% increases over 7 years are a bit much (and we’re driven by ridiculously low I to prices for new services), but inflation increased overall nominal prices by 34% in this period, so 40-60% nominal increases don’t seem ludicrous to me

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"people who are mad at the Internet Archive for using Claude to fix their website because LLM training is 'plagiarism'" is an absolutely INCREDIBLE piece of business, Harlan Ellison is so mad he didn't think of it

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no kings includes draftkings

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This is what people don't understand. Streaming was always gonna be a major money pit for the beloved prices people miss. You need this shit to be like satellite cable in 2004-tier expensive to actually make a profit.

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To be fair Apple and Disney were both obscenely underpriced at that time considering the budgets of their projects. They were just bleeding money for market share.

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