• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Right, quick, alert all the pirates downloading software! Alert all the people doing password sharing on streaming services! …

    These companies don’t get rich by wasting money. If they’re seeing the change is costing them sales and potential sales, they revert. Fuck, Cracker Barrel last year tried to change its logo. Here are a few other examples https://time.com/3735718/consumer-pressure-business/. Hell, the biggest example of all, when New Coke was introduced and walked back 79 days later.

    • qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 hours ago

      Replacing broken displays will cost them less than paying someone to swap labels by hand, and if it does become even mildly annoying to them you will be caught and have the book thrown at you. If you are gonna break the law you might as well do something more productive than generating tax write offs.