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Current consumer protection laws are lacking in the digital world. Purchase should mean ownership. Rent and lease should mean non-ownership. We still don't hav
by yndoendo 3y ago
Current consumer protection laws are lacking in the digital world. Purchase should mean ownership. Rent and lease should mean non-ownership.
We still don't have a quality definition of ownership. Example would be that the ability to edit the OS "hosts" file to prevent a device from accessing say "twitter.com" should be a requirement in ownership.
Owned / purchased content should not be able to be revoked. Such as Ubisoft locking your account and preventing you from playing the games you purchased. Rental and leased content would fall into the account locking ability by Ubisoft.
- ufocia 3y agoThere is a misunderstanding among consumers, be it individuals or corporations, that by purchasing a physical medium you simultaneously purchase a perpetual license. While in gross majority of consumer cases that was true, or at least implied, it certainly was not true in the commercial space where plenty of software was licensed for term. The SaaS model only made that more apparent/transparent. While I personally loathe the general corporate subscriptionism, it does have its benefits and drawbacks which in most cases can be addressed by market forces. The ultimate pressure on video games publisher's subscriptionism may be to touch the grass.
- barrysteve 3y agoIt will likely take centuries to reinvent digital ownership. The top-down influence is too strong to have nice things.
- TheCleric 3y agoConsidering that digital ownership is only a few decades old, I doubt it will take centuries to reinvent.