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I am fairly confident that when you signed up, you agreed to a terms of service that said something to the extent of, "You don't own these things you buy, we do
by bjt2n3904 4y ago
I am fairly confident that when you signed up, you agreed to a terms of service that said something to the extent of, "You don't own these things you buy, we do, and we reserve the right to take them away without notice and without reason."
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agoyou dont "own" stuff, they "grant you a license", those fuckers
- ryukafalz 4y agoThen the button should say “License” and not “Buy” or “Purchase”.
- quickthrowman 4y agoI agree with your sentiment, but you can buy or purchase a license, unfortunately. I skip these licensing games and pirate video content. I pay for music and video games (not Ubisoft) because those industries have made it just as easy as piracy as well as reasonably affordable.
- InitialLastName 4y agoSomeone has never had Valve disappear a game they paid for from their Steam library.
- ryukafalz 4y agoSure you can, but if you asked the average person on the street what they thought they were buying when they clicked that button, the response you’d get is “the movie”, not “a license to watch the movie”.
- izacus 4y agoAnd what kind of meaningful difference would it make when all the buttons in all the stores (including ones selling physical media) would say "License Now"?
- WesolyKubeczek 4y agoThere is a difference between a physical medium and digital one. You can read it all the time, you can resell it, you can tear it apart if you like, and the store cannot ever trespass on your property to take it back because they went out of business or they want to charge you recurrently or something.
- causi 4y agoIt would tank their sales until they offered actual purchases will full consumer rights like reselling.
- scrollaway 4y agoHaha. Maybe it would cut into them a tiny bit but no, it wouldn't "tank their sales", what on earth makes you think it would?
- corrral 4y agoThe companies think it makes enough of a difference to be worth lying. So I think it's worth forcing them to stop lying. You're probably right that it wouldn't have a catastrophic effect, but it might be enough that they do reconsider things.
- scrollaway 4y agoThe bar for companies to lie is ridiculously low. Especially the bar for SONY to lie. If they're not legally obligated to tell the truth about something, they'll bullshit around it even if the difference is a fraction of a percent positive.
- ryukafalz 4y ago
- JohnBooty 4y agoYou are buying (a license) Not defending their behavior. In fact I hate their license!
- codedokode 4y agoYou (probably) cannot call it a "purchase" then.
- criddell 4y agoAmazon has started using the word “acquire” rather than “bought” in your account history. https://bleedingcool.com/comics/you-have-not-bought-your-comixology-comics-you-acquired-them/ https://bleedingcool.com/comics/you-have-not-bought-your-com...
- karaterobot 4y agoI imagine the people downvoting you are saying "well, I didn't even read the license agreement!" or "I wish the license agreement didn't say that!", but of course neither of those are relevant. If people don't understand how licenses on digital goods work by now, or are under the delusion that those licenses can't or won't be enforced, they're doomed to be surprised by stuff like this over and over.