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Selling leasing/licensing rights is fundamental to many industries and the government itself in many cases. There's already regulation we can use to combat wha
by dimitrios1 3y ago
Selling leasing/licensing rights is fundamental to many industries and the government itself in many cases.
There's already regulation we can use to combat what digital "ownership" is: bait and switch.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoThis is for the non technical, non professional customer who is sitting at home on their TV deciding to “rent” a movie. When presented with two options, Buy or Rent, the former is obviously incorrect if it can be yanked away. Both options are rent, with different durations.
- dimitrios1 3y agoRight. Bait and switch: a scam to mislead buyers, whereby a seller advertises an appealing but ingenuine offer to sell a product or service that the seller does not actually intend to sell (emphasis mine) The "digital good" is the bait. It makes you think you are purchasing ownership like you would with a physical book, or dvd, or game. The bait is effective because it tries to tie itself to the legitimate form and tries to create a false equivalency of buying a physical copy (in some cases, claiming to be "superior" because its greener or whatnot). The solution would be for companies to be explicit in what is actually happening: you are purchasing an indefinite lease on the content subject to terms and exceptions. But I imagine they don't want to do that because it would cause a dent in their business.