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Amen to that. It cannot get more misleading than that. Using the word "buy" instead of "borrow" is done willfully to mislead the consumer as they know that the
by Mountain-Jack 10y ago
Amen to that. It cannot get more misleading than that.
Using the word "buy" instead of "borrow" is done willfully to mislead the consumer as they know that the consumer would otherwise be less likely to enter into the transaction. Buying implies that you have the power of having ownership to a non-exclusive single copy of the work wherein the ownership lies in the ability to command over that ownership (by, for example, giving it to somebody else).
- kybernetyk 10y agoYou might also argue that people are buying a license and thus "buy" is appropriate.
- golemotron 10y agoIf the FDA can police terminology like 'organic' for food, the FTC can step in when companies aren't clear that you are buying a license.
- moonfern 10y agoMaybe inappropriate but I like to know where you bought the "You might also argue" licence of mountain-Jack I couldn't find that on the Amazon store, please help me, that never happened to me, I feel so sad.
- Drakim 10y agoThen it should say "Buy a license now!" rather than "Buy a product now!"
- mattmaroon 10y agoIt just says buy now. I've never seen a button that said "buy a product now".
- wtetzner 10y agoBut it's always next to a picture or description of the product, not a license. That seems pretty misleading.
- newjersey 10y agoI don't like the whole "own it on Blu-ray and DVD" scheme either. I would love to see the end of copyright and just some sort of compensation for releasing unauthorized private data without any significant public utility but I don't know how to define things like public utility.
- Joeri 10y agoBuying a license is pretty bunk though. The common understanding of what purchasing means is incompatible with licenses. This is a long-standing problem of the software industry which has been exported to other domains now that everything is software.
- pdkl95 10y agoA better argument is that advertising that a product is available to "buy now", but changing the terms at checkout to "buy a license" is a type of fraud known as "bait and switch". An offer is being made that the seller has no intention of honoring, with a different product (the license) offered as a substitute.