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<blockquote data-quote="msilcommand" data-source="post: 285178" data-attributes="member: 7642"><p>It's not my arcade. I only dl a copy of Farsight's app, and access copies of Farsight's tables in said digital arcade. </p><p></p><p>Here's the thing. Exclusive licensing stifles competition. Farsight should have been licensed to sell access to those tables on (for example) PS4's TPA into perpetuity. SG should have also licensed Zen and whomever else on their specific game apps to make healthy competition. Right now, we should have Farsight with their full catelog of tables that they paid hundreds of thousands to devs to build in TPA for people to buy access to. Zen should still be licensed to build their own version of those tables to compete, and so on.</p><p></p><p>The whole reason Farsight still had crap UI and an outdated business model for online gaming is because they had no competition. </p><p></p><p>I'm not saying current licensing laws and practices don't support what SG did. I am saying it needs to change, because it doesn't correctly reflect digital access to licensed materials, and it stifles healthy competition. </p><p></p><p>The licensing laws need to be reviewed with independent tech experts at the helm, and updated from 2000 to 2019.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="msilcommand, post: 285178, member: 7642"] It's not my arcade. I only dl a copy of Farsight's app, and access copies of Farsight's tables in said digital arcade. Here's the thing. Exclusive licensing stifles competition. Farsight should have been licensed to sell access to those tables on (for example) PS4's TPA into perpetuity. SG should have also licensed Zen and whomever else on their specific game apps to make healthy competition. Right now, we should have Farsight with their full catelog of tables that they paid hundreds of thousands to devs to build in TPA for people to buy access to. Zen should still be licensed to build their own version of those tables to compete, and so on. The whole reason Farsight still had crap UI and an outdated business model for online gaming is because they had no competition. I'm not saying current licensing laws and practices don't support what SG did. I am saying it needs to change, because it doesn't correctly reflect digital access to licensed materials, and it stifles healthy competition. The licensing laws need to be reviewed with independent tech experts at the helm, and updated from 2000 to 2019. [/QUOTE]
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