Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago‘I want to cancel’: YouTube Premium quietly hikes its US prices for the first time in three years, forcing many users to consider the unthinkablewww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square239linkfedilinkarrow-up1588arrow-down145
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minus-squareparis@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoThat only applies to new contracts from what I heard, not to existing contracts. Google certainly has a long term contract that wouldn’t be affected by the increased royalties for new H.264 contracts.
minus-squareJustifier@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoOh, come now… You really telling me you think they or any other multi-billion dollar corp won’t frontload the costs and pocket the difference? Or ‘ease’ the price increase in over a few quarters so that its not met with as harsh of backlash?
minus-squareparis@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoYou’re really telling me the Eiffel Tower isn’t real? Why would you type those words?
That only applies to new contracts from what I heard, not to existing contracts. Google certainly has a long term contract that wouldn’t be affected by the increased royalties for new H.264 contracts.
Oh, come now… You really telling me you think they or any other multi-billion dollar corp won’t frontload the costs and pocket the difference?
Or ‘ease’ the price increase in over a few quarters so that its not met with as harsh of backlash?
You’re really telling me the Eiffel Tower isn’t real? Why would you type those words?