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I wonder how this can even be legal in Europe. If someone sold you something, its yours. AFAIK, There is enough consumer protection to stop most EULA bullshit
by hyperman1 7y ago
I wonder how this can even be legal in Europe. If someone sold you something, its yours. AFAIK, There is enough consumer protection to stop most EULA bullshit. So it seems it only needs someone to sue and some proof microsoft used the word 'sold' when you bought it.
- luisaguimaraes 7y agoLet's just wait for who's it gonna be! And how will it look when "books stop working".
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- pbhjpbhj 7y agoThe UK Consumer Rights Act (CRA) appears to anticipate this as it has no absolute date beyond which goods should remain suitable for purpose. Digital goods should last infinitely, so a digital good that 'expires' should be fixed or the cost fully refunded (fully as there are still an infinite number of years of use left available; and that should be accounting for inflation too).
- afandian 7y agoI feel the legality should surround the description. This isn't "selling" it's "lending".
- rhino369 7y ago"and you will receive a full refund of the original purchase price." Seems fair enough to me.
- rmcrx 7y agoOnly that I wanted the books, not the money.
- rhino369 7y agoUse the money to buy the book again.
- hyperman1 7y agoThat's like saying the car factory is allowed to take an old timer from you if they refund its original price. Can I use the money to buy the same book? Is my time lost searching for this replacement worth nothing? If I added annotations, do they end up in the new book? If you answer any of these questions with 'no', its not fair enough.
- dzader 7y agoyes it is
- rhino369 7y agoThat analogy is loaded because classic cars appreciate. Ebooks don’t. Toyota can feel to take back my 03 4Runner for the original purchase price.
- modsiw 7y agoEbooks can appreciate. You could have originally bought it on sell and that sell is no longer available. You could have added value to the ebook by way of adding annotations. The ebook could have had better display than its competitors, if it and all other equal quality displays vanished, they are now very rare. Someone would be willing to pay more than your original purchase price if they could now get that display experience.
- tpush 7y agoYou probably only obtain a license to read a book and don't actually own it, similar to streaming movies & music.
- AnssiH 7y agoI doubt the law requires anything more than the full refund which MS is providing. Similarly, if someone sells you a physical product that is faulty, the seller is not required to produce a replacement, they can just refund you instead.
- DenisM 7y ago> the seller is not required to produce a replacement As well they cannot demand any such thing - the country's money is legislated to be accepted as a settlement for any kind of debt. It's the "legal tender" thing.
- dredmorbius 7y agoDefective instances are a random (though not unpredictable) event occurring independently between instances, with no influence by the manufacturer, designholder, or vendor. Hitting the Molly Switch on a DRM service is the exact opposite.