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And 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"?
by izacus 4y ago
And 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 agoThen surely it wouldn’t be a problem for them to change the wording, yes? And they wouldn’t object to legislation requiring this more accurate labeling?