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I totally understand the outrage and in absolutely no way do I take Sonys side on this, paying is supposed to be ownership. However the terms of service cover them from head to toe, their terms define “buy” as the right to stream the show, not download it forever and have it available in perpetuity. Start voting with your wallets people, this isn’t the first time a company has done this and it is far from the last.
Words should mean what they mean and not be weasel words in an ever changing terms of service that the company has complete control over.
Lanuage often changes to reflect useage. Kind of like how 'literally' literally has an official dictionary definition nowadays meaning 'figuratively'.
If companies use 'buy' to mean 'rent' or 'borrow', then eventually 'buy' will come to mean the same as 'rent' or 'borrow'.
What word will replace buy for ownership instead of it just ending up as meaning two completely different things?
I am complaining about companies knowingly using words differently than common usage, not the fact that words change over time.
No word will, buy will be done, you will never own anything in the future, only rent.
Not to mention just as much of the blame should be on Discovery, who’s pulling this kind of shit all over the place, including removing shoes from HBO that they own the licenses of.
Personally my long held belief is that things should become public domain and lose their copyright protection if after they’ve been released they’re not kept available at reasonable prices compared to similar products on the market
They should go in the public domain in a reasonable number of years like they were originally designed to, just like patents. Both served the purpose of protecting commercial use for a limited time to promote innovation. Patents still promotes, copyright stifles due to extending the duration to a ridiculous amount.
Oh for sure. But I mean this as a more immediate result of trying to subvert existing licenses.