richmondez

The original code for that was leaked, most if not all replacement servers run that code, not reverse engineered code.

Sadly the virtuous circle of profits being put back into research and development seems badly broken in so many business now.

It’s more complicated than that as control acts as a barrier to entry preventing competitive start ups entering the market and disrupting it so established players probably don’t care as they can bare the cost of compliance if they have to.

Worse is that it likely won’t be able to distinguish between intentionally titilating material and material intended to educate. Only over 18 are allowed to learn about human physiology after submitting identifying information.

Capitalism can work well when it’s coupled into a virtuous circle of funding R&D to create new products and services to increase income to put back into more R&D. At the moment it seems that a lot of companies are just trying to seek ever increasing rent extraction on existing products rather than investing in trying to innovate and relying on high barriers to entry to keep competition out.