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Digital sales are license agreements not transfers of ownership
by kurupt213 4y ago
Digital sales are license agreements not transfers of ownership
- pfortuny 4y agoYou are being downvoted because your sentence is self-contradictory. One does not “sell” a license agreement, one “enters into it with a third party”. Wether it is digital or not.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> One does not “sell” a license agreement Factually, yes, one does sell licenses. > one “enters into it with a third party”. One also does that. When one offers to do so, in exchange for money, it is also selling the license. You are simply setting up a false dichotomy.
- kurupt213 4y agoI suppose I could have put ‘sales’ in quotes. And it’s not how I think things should be. It’s how they are. Read the terms next time you ‘buy’ a digital product.
- wongarsu 4y agoThere's no technical or legal reason that the word "purchase" doesn't imply an irrevocable, transferable license (for one person at a time), as well as the requirement that the "seller" makes the licensed good indefinitely available to license holders (for a fee appropriate to cost of doing so). If they don't like that, don't call it a purchase. Anything less is just eroding the meaning of the word.
- kurupt213 4y agoI agree. I’m just telling you what the terms of service say.
- matkoniecz 4y agoIn such case calling them purchase should be illegal or result in mandatory refund. Maybe refund should be indexed by inflation.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoThen remove the "buy" button and replace it with "lease for some time, until we decide otherwise"