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I don't mind if they call it "buy", as long as customers are entitled to a refund in case a work becomes unavailable.
by MilaM 6y ago
I don't mind if they call it "buy", as long as customers are entitled to a refund in case a work becomes unavailable.
- blendergeek 6y ago> entitled to a refund Are customers solely responsible for only buying from monopolists so that the store they purchased from can provide refunds when the content later (inevitably) becomes unavailable?
- dwheeler 6y agoNo, I think buy should have a very clear meaning. No one is going to read all the legal gobbledygook. When I buy something, I assumed it cannot be taken away. If it can be taken away, then I did not buy it. Ileased it or rented it, but I did not buy it. The world is already too complicated for many people. If we are going to give people any hope of understanding what they are agreeing to, then we need to make sure that words mean something.
- philsnow 6y ago"Entitled to a refund" is not the same as "made whole". Consumers want the latter, companies usually want the former. For starters there's inflation, so if I spend $10 today and 20 years from now they revoke the license or whatever and give me 10 2040-dollars, that's not going to be the same buying power as the $10 in 2020 dollars. Second, the media landscape may have shifted by then. If the only company in 2040 that can give me another, comparable "indefinite rental license" or whatever is charging $100, I want Amazon to pay _that_.