Is the comic intended to imply that it's desirable for a cartel to have the power to show a person the door? I ask because that's what happens when the payment card industry deplatforms a website operator.
Fixed cost 1: Royalties due to licensors. Some video games are based on a sports league, a book, a movie, or some music. If the cost for licensing these includes a royalty in dollars per copy, as opposed to a buyout per title or a percentage royalty per copy, then the game's publisher won't be able to lower the price as aggressively because it still has to pay the minimum royalty per copy.
Fixed cost 2: Distribution to Internet have-nots. Rural customers will still need discs because their home ISPs cap data transfer at less than a dual layer DVD per month.
Cartel
Is the comic intended to imply that it's desirable for a cartel to have the power to show a person the door? I ask because that's what happens when the payment card industry deplatforms a website operator.
Unlike copyrights, patents expire
Patents expire after 20 years. All this will do is force inventions onto a 20-year business cycle.
Sometimes there is a fixed cost.
Fixed cost 1: Royalties due to licensors. Some video games are based on a sports league, a book, a movie, or some music. If the cost for licensing these includes a royalty in dollars per copy, as opposed to a buyout per title or a percentage royalty per copy, then the game's publisher won't be able to lower the price as aggressively because it still has to pay the minimum royalty per copy.
Fixed cost 2: Distribution to Internet have-nots. Rural customers will still need discs because their home ISPs cap data transfer at less than a dual layer DVD per month.
Asok
"Dilbert, learn to copy-paste proper nouns if you can't reproduce 'em properly."
Whoosh! as the joke flew over your head. Let me explain: Asok is an intern character in Dilbert comics.