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Why would anyone expect refunds for a product bought 20 years ago?
by TylerE 2y ago
Why would anyone expect refunds for a product bought 20 years ago?
- timewizard 2y agoWhy would any company expect their copyrights to last for life of the creator plus 70 years? If I can't pirate it, then I expect it to be replaced, this is the system they demanded.
- TylerE 2y agoThat doesn't logically follow. You bought a disc, not lifetime access rights.
- hnuser123456 2y agoCan't wait til I need to own at least 10 stocks of the publisher to watch a movie
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y agoYou rent a disk which you cannot legally backup. I expect a refund if it’s not usable anymore.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoCannot legally back up depends heavily on the specifics. For a long time (IDK about currently) it was legal to rip your own discs for backup purposes, and even to break the encryption as long as you did it yourself. So it was potentially legal but not necessarily within reach to do it legally. And that is, of course, wrong. There should never be any uncertainty about whether you can back up the media you purchased. Saying you're "renting" the disc is just plain disingenuous, though. You own it free and clear. You can give it to anyone you like, for free or for a profit (i.e. how Netflix did things back in the day). The original owner is not asserting the right to come and take it back from you. It is in no way a rental, it is a sale.
- josephcsible 2y agoI wouldn't expect refunds for a product, but I would for a perpetual license to a copyrighted work that I couldn't access anymore. They can't have it both ways.
- cogman10 2y agoIf a book falls apart are you owed a replacement by the publisher?
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y agoI would ask for a replacement if the seller and the law said "I am renting the book."
- toast0 2y agoBuying a book doesn't give you any more rights or privileges that buying a dvd. Although I guess it's a lot easier to take a book and give all your favorite people a portion of it. You're paying for the physical object and have a license to read it or view it, but not to copy it (other than what fair use provides). Many books have an explicit statement of this on the copyright page.
- cogman10 2y agoThe seller and law say you own the book but you don't own the content of the book. That is, you are free to read the book as many times as you like, you aren't free to start printing out and distributing copies of the book as "backup" for all your friends and family. The laws around DVDs are the same. You have a right to access and view the contents of the DVD. You don't have a right to make copies of the dvd. I'd also point out products like cheap paperbacks which obliterate themselves after 4 or 5 reads. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for some good reforms and regulations around copyrights and media access, especially in the digital age. I just think it's a little bit ridiculous to expect purchased media to never degrade.
- josephcsible 2y ago
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- huang_chung 2y agoCostco abusers.
- morley 2y agoI don't know why you've been downvoted so much. I'd expect a company to issue replacements, not refunds, when they're not the end retailer.
- nosioptar 2y agoI wouldn't for a DVD. I would for my cello if a repair or replacement wasn't doable because it came with a lifetime warranty against defects.