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Do companies that do not have such clauses and provide comparable services exist? If not, customers are not free to refuse to engage even in theory. If those c
by Mordisquitos 3y ago
Do companies that do not have such clauses and provide comparable services exist? If not, customers are not free to refuse to engage even in theory.
If those companies exist, is there any practical way for customers to know which ones they are? If not, customers are not free to refuse to engage in practice.
The only freedom that customers (=citizens) have is to engage into a cartel (=state) to impose their collective interests (=democratic choice) on companies by force (=law).
Companies are then free to refuse to engage with states which have such customer-protective clauses in their laws.
- eru 3y ago> Do companies that do not have such clauses and provide comparable services exist? If not, customers are not free to refuse to engage even in theory. Yes, and you can found more of them, too. > If those companies exist, is there any practical way for customers to know which ones they are? Yes.
- passwordoops 3y agoCare to elaborate? Honest question because I'd genuinely like to know
- eru 3y agoThere are plenty of companies that sell you physical media. Even analog format like vinyl and cassettes. GoG (good old games) sells you games without DRM. There are others like that, too. Some companies, like id, open source many of their works. You can buy DRM free music and videos.
- i80and 3y agoThere is not any significant DRM free digital movie marketplace, and the reality is that movies aren't fungible: if I want to watch Strange World or Doctor Who, I'm not going to just instead watch an indie arthouse film that happens to be available without DRM
- eru 3y agoMedia is as (un-) fungible as always. Your complaint sounds a bit like complaining that you can't buy an iPhone that runs Windows. Bundling is a thing in the economy. You can't buy a Porsche with a Tesla engine either. You can still buy movies on DVDs, which still can't be disabled remotely. DVDs are very digital. Yes, you can complain that there's no 'significant' movie marketplace without DRM. But you have to complain to and about your fellow consumers: their patronage ultimately decides which suppliers become 'significant'.