DTM.1:5.1 - A service improves work but concentrates dependence

Consider a hypothetical team whose old process yields 10 acceptable analyses per week. With a service it yields 14 at an additional cost affordable for the work. Under an outage the supported process yields only 4; a tested substitute would yield 9.

The method produces three separate comparisons. Current supported output improved by 4. Current outage exposure is larger than before. Replaceability would reduce that exposure, but would not preserve all normal output. None of these differences alone proves exploitation. The next action depends on the required continuity, supplier conditions and cost of the substitute.

If the supplier benefits from continued use, that fact also does not settle parasitism: both parties may benefit. Evidence that a supplier deliberately obstructs portability would introduce a further causal claim, not retroactively change these numerical comparisons.