Note: this is income before any AT&T expenses, just to be clear and fair.

Yes, exactly. By your numbers, their revenue would go down by almost 10% while their operating expenses remain the same. Is it plausible that they could have just lowered prices by 10% and still operated profitably all this time?

It’s funny, considering how Lemley’s convictions on Fair Use are regarded by so many lemmings.

It’s a good analogy for a lot of things. The story mocks the human tendency to go along with obvious nonsense; to conform to expectations.

Such obscenity laws originate in centuries past, when people unironically believed that masturbation makes you go blind or crazy, rather than helping prevent prostate cancer. Society collectively believed that having sex the wrong way would end with you going to hell. Pornography might make the boys gay or wear women’s clothes. Well, if you look at who passes these laws now, maybe those beliefs haven’t died out.

The point is simply that there is nothing inherently harmful in being exposed to porn. Sure, some of it is disturbing or may give you bad ideas about how the world works, but that’s true for any kind of media. Whether referring to minors, eg 17-year-olds, as children is appropriate is another matter.

“harmful to minors”

Indeed, I find that few things have done more to ruin my sense of common decency than HC Andersen’s The Emperor’s New Clothes and that’s a story all about public nudity.

Almost but not quite.

It does apply equally to everyone. The lemmy hive mind simply doesn’t understand copyright law.