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Why? If it’s not your property... If you rent a car, you cannot remove the doors, if you buy it you can, that’s accepted. What’s the difference? In return, when
by tluyben2 8y ago
Why? If it’s not your property... If you rent a car, you cannot remove the doors, if you buy it you can, that’s accepted. What’s the difference? In return, when it’s broken, the owner (the one you rent it from) needs to repair it. Unlike when it’s bought and out of (some kind of) warranty.
- jrochkind1 8y agoBecause it's essentially a lie. As revealed by your formulation "just say" -- your experience is no different if everything in your possession is 'owned' by you and illegal to modify, or if they change their mind and "just say" everything in your possession that matters with regard to this isn't really 'owned' by you at all. It's not a step forward, it leaves you in exactly the same position. If it is insane, then "just saying" something doesn't make it more sane. My concern is the experience of not having control over our equipment (not a good experience or way to live), not a semantic technicality.
- tluyben2 8y agoIt is not a technicality; it is a way of legally doing it. I see your point though; buying is, with the added burden of patents and copyright on top, a wrong term. You cannot buy anything in the sense we would like to buy it.
- jrochkind1 8y agoWhether it's legal or not to prevent you from running the software you want and the software you write on your xbox, IMO it _oughta_ be illegal, whether they just say you are leasing it or not.