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As this emphasizes, You don't own these items, you're merely leasing them. That's why I've spent exactly $3.98 on two Amazon Kindle books (a bunch more at $0),
by hga 11y ago
As this emphasizes, You don't own these items, you're merely leasing them. That's why I've spent exactly $3.98 on two Amazon Kindle books (a bunch more at $0), both in part to tell me if I want to buy more from the respective authors. Vs. a few hundred in non-DRMed digital books and music, the latter all though Amazon (would be a lot more if I didn't have a massive bias towards physical media and a very good insurance policy).
A good example of one of the own goals of Google+: their Real Names policy + account consolidation meant violating, in their view, the former meant loss to all of the latter, including most catastrophically GMail.
Oh, yeah, per his tweets, he lost the remaining balance of his Prime account. Nice way to reward loyalty.
- hawleyal 11y agoIn general, one cannot revoke a lease without recourse.
- hga 11y agoThe problem, of course, is that enforcing that in courts is expensive. Heck, unless he kept a separate record of his purchases (ADDED: tjl pointed out he very possiblely has that in his emails), he doesn't even know prior to discovery what his damages are. At least the net also allows trying to enforce this in the court of public opinion.
- howeyc 11y agoyeah, but what are the terms of the license/lease. I haven't read it/don't know, but what if the terms are basically "you have access for as long as we feel like giving you access"
- belorn 11y agoThe licenses are now days almost always the exact same: you have no rights beyond what the law in your country explicitly gives you and which can't be removed by the contract.
- hga 11y agoTake it to court and terms that ... convenient to the vendor very possibly would not hold up. For something like books, with versions that are tangable and massively litigated on over half a millennium, I suspect Amazon would lose badly, after of course the other side spent many times the losses. At least in the case of Amazon, with its reputation being such a big factor in its success, if you had to go to court the bad PR from such a white line case would almost certainly result in a quick and favorable settlement.