And they invested knowing that piracy was a thing and figured that into their calculations regard to the risk vs potential return. If they didn't get that right and end up with a loss, well, that's capitalism for you.
Mondez
Copyright is the antithesis of free market by allowing a monopoly on distribution and exploitation of some resource.
Some parts of the gaming industry did, the vast majority still won't provide content drm free.
If they could figure a way to make you pay without providing any service at all they absolutely would.
Frankly I'm horrified that it would go that way and wasn't aware there were cases like this with sound alike voice actors unless the voice was misleading stated to be of someone it wasn't.
Do they pay people for use of their voice when they get a cheaper voice actor in who sounds just like them?
Remember how a few years ago 3d displays and VR were being shoved in everyone's faces? I can see the current "AI" trend going the same way.
There is more than one type of water, but unless your IoT device is a fusion reactor it's probably just running off the normal blend.
Your average computer user is mainly using it for interacting with various web based services and playing media. Don't need good input methods for that so tablets are a cheaper and easier to maintain alternative to a laptop.
Tragedy of the commons? Everyone wants to use it, no one wants to put forward the resources to maintain it.
Copyright infringement for me but not for thee.
Triple A games are often over funded and under deliver in experience in my recent experience. A little less funding might tighten up some of waste and deliver better games.