They announced that they're not releasing a disc version just a few days before sony announced they were going to phase out discs for the playstation.
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It's not illusion of control, the disc allows people to buy from other stores and allows people to resell their games. Games on disc go down in price much earlier than in the store. Spider-man 2 still costs 80€ in the PS Store, I can get it for half of that on disc and that's not even the used disc price. Sony removing the disc option gives them full control over game prices. On PC you can buy from some other store, but that also comes with its issues.
Because otherwise the government is going to create a fun police.
Meme with the guy that helped removing discs for video games on PC in the context of Sony saying they're going to phase out games on discs.
Sometimes the license for the music in games expires and developers/publishers just remove it from the games.
What's your opinion on iOrb?
Sure, if you consider every tiny microcontroller to be a computer, it's probably more than 100.
Pretty sure it would be illegal to not help in quite a lot of countries, especially as a doctor. Apparently USA is not one of those countries.
The "West" you're talking about is two South Korean companies and one US American company that mostly manufactures in Asia.