Don't forget the 10% referral refund. If you refer 11 friends, you're guaranteed a steady income for the rest of your life!
And of course, the interactive cookbook interfaces with your kitchen hardware to cook you dinner.
I don't see it happening. 5% is a far cry from majority shareholder. Especially if Google and other companies are buying in, as other folks have written. My (optimistic) guess is that there's no hidden agenda. Can't a company just invest in another company that looks promising?
I wouldn't bet on it. You could have said the same thing about search engines in 1998. We had Yahoo! and Excite and then Metacrawler popped up, and Google. At some point, someone becomes king of the mountain and just stays there.
IANAL, but chances are it wouldn't need to. Behind all the pages of EULAs the users didn't read was certainly a statement disclaiming any guarantee that the tracks will work at some future date. If it's anything like Napster's subscription service then they're no longer paying the monthly fees to access them anyway.
At the risk of being redundant, this seems to generalize to the entire universe. If the universe is really just one giant many-body wavefunction, it just evolves completely deterministically under Schroedinger's equation (or some future upgraded version with support for gravity) indefinitely with nothing to ever measure it. No more need for many worlds.
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Don't forget the 10% referral refund. If you refer 11 friends, you're guaranteed a steady income for the rest of your life! And of course, the interactive cookbook interfaces with your kitchen hardware to cook you dinner.
I don't see it happening. 5% is a far cry from majority shareholder. Especially if Google and other companies are buying in, as other folks have written. My (optimistic) guess is that there's no hidden agenda. Can't a company just invest in another company that looks promising?
I wouldn't bet on it. You could have said the same thing about search engines in 1998. We had Yahoo! and Excite and then Metacrawler popped up, and Google. At some point, someone becomes king of the mountain and just stays there.
Call me a hopeless optimistic, but maybe it will finally sink in with the Powers That Be that DRM is a silly technology?
IANAL, but chances are it wouldn't need to. Behind all the pages of EULAs the users didn't read was certainly a statement disclaiming any guarantee that the tracks will work at some future date. If it's anything like Napster's subscription service then they're no longer paying the monthly fees to access them anyway.
At the risk of being redundant, this seems to generalize to the entire universe. If the universe is really just one giant many-body wavefunction, it just evolves completely deterministically under Schroedinger's equation (or some future upgraded version with support for gravity) indefinitely with nothing to ever measure it. No more need for many worlds.