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Cause people like porn. I’ll be honest, when I downloaded some music video or something that ended up being porn, I usually wasn’t too disappointed, with the exception that I now had to go find what I was originally looking for again and wait for it to download. Shit used to take forever back in the day.
We have the NFPA 70, aka the National Electric Code, which is free to access as long as you sign up for an NFPA account and allow their email spam. A physical copy of the book is about $50, not terrible.
California has their Title 24 Part 3 (California Electric Code) readily available online for free, no account needed. Want a printed copy? $200, loose leaf. Granted, loose leaf let’s you swap the pages as they’re updated in the interim years (the code cycle is every 3 years), but $200 is ridiculous.
The reason I bring this up is inspections. An inspector is not going to sit there while you Google a particular code to prove them wrong, especially when half the results are from forums of people debating the code. But an inspector will sometimes change their tune when you grab the official code book, flip to the relevant code (thank the maker for reference tabs), and point it out along with conditions and exceptions. I’ve had inspectors reconsider a field ruling explicitly because I had my code book with me (and was able to efficiently navigate to the relevant section). Problem here is that since the code is updated every 3 years, the CA code lags the NEC by 2 years, and our jurisdiction uses the most recent publication, this cycle gets expensive quickly. While it’s a seemingly trivial amount when your business is off and running, it’s yet another expense that makes starting a business tricky.
Something is odd here, who is your ISP? I’ve only seen MoCA used to create a network for cable/satellite STBs through the coax in the building, or for a phone company connection creating a MoCA bridge to provide broadband from a demarcation point in an apartment building where only a phone line is available in lieu of DSL. What is the make of your existing router?
Wanna know how to not be beholden to all these fees? Put in the effort to divorce yourself from these companies. You’re paying for convenience. Go pick up your food yourself. Take the time to research products from different companies, and acknowledge and be patient that they won’t be there immediately. Cultivate your own media library. Find replacement software if at all possible. All of these things take much more effort, but you’ll save yourself the money and you’ll stop supporting these damn companies that are raiding your bank accounts. Obviously some subscriptions are impossible to avoid, like a cell phone plan, home internet, work-related things, etc. But how anyone pays triple for a meal is just baffling. And some people do it every. Single. Day.
There’s a whole lot of assumptions you’ve got going on right there, along with terrible reading comprehension. At no point did I say that I’m going to make life harder for my employees, nor that I deserve a better life than them. I also said I think this is a step in the right direction, just that it needs to be hashed out a little more for businesses other that office workers.
I just want to use my player of choice, and play a locally hosted file. I don’t want to deal with the visual compression artifacts or choppy sound that comes with streaming through a poorly coded player, I’d rather run a full bitrate file through VLC on my own rig that’s tied into my surround sound system in peace.