if buying isnt owning then piracy is not stealing
I guess I just understand that people can be stupid in groups even without a top-down approach.
You will own nothing.
That’s it. That’s all they promise.
No one “promised” this. It was a thought-piece written by some one, neither endorsing or opposing it, with the intent of sparking a discussion about it. But good on you for parroting the talking point instead of thinking for yourself.
I don’t think you know what a thought piece is. There is no analysis or opinion from the author.
Plus when people share their take on it, you just accuse them of parroting talking points. You have added nothing to this conversation past various forms of “you’re wrong,” with only insults to serve as counter points.
That said, if you want to try to explain to us why you feel a corporation taking away access to something that was bought is fair and just, I’m all ears and more than willing to have the discussion with you that you claim to want.
I don’t think you know what a thought piece is. There is no analysis or opinion from the author.
I’m not sure what you are saying here. Are you suggesting that I don’t realize a thought piece doesn’t require analysis or opinion, or are you suggesting that the piece was not a thought piece because it included analysis and/or opinion? Regardless, you are wrong.
Although from the rest of your post, I’m guess it’s a third option that you don’t know about the WEF thought piece “You’ll own nothing be happy”, a criticism of which this poster is mindlessly parroting.
Plus when people share their take on it, you just accuse them of parroting talking points.
If someone had actually given “their take” on it, by more than parroting the long-since debunked sound-bite, and I told them they were just parroting a talking point, then this comment would hold some water. But it really rings pretty hollow right here.
That said, if you want to try to explain to us why you feel a corporation taking away access to something that was bought is fair and just,
I never said nor suggested it was, I very explicitly said “no one ‘promised’ this.” It was very clear what, explicitly, I was disagreeing with. I absolutely think it is wrong that they did this, but this thread is filled with the same thoughtless sophomoric BS logic and thoughtless spin on a thought-piece that we see everywhere else this story comes up. They put no thought into it, they just repeat what they heard someone else say. They were met with the same level of dismissiveness that they provided, just a version that more accurately represents the reality.
Are they not obligated to refund? They’re basically just throwing out their customers’ shit without permission.
I hope customer protection will eventually force new terms on the “you buy the rights to view a movie which can be revoked anytime without reason”. Like, given that most digital offers are priced nearly as high as their physical counterparts, there should be a law that the right must be given for at least 50 years or so.
I think that that would be hard to make work from a business standpoint. Too hard to reserve enough cash to operate for 50 years; businesses can go under.
Maybe just buy the physical movie.
I mean, a Blu-Ray or whatever is popular these days movie plus a player is self-contained and will keep working as long as you don’t damage one or the other.
People still use fifty year old vinyl records.
I got PS Plus Premium in February for $120/year, months later they increased the price significantly. I don’t intend to renew my subscription, but now I simply don’t intend to purchase Sony games or digital media anymore. They’ve done this before, can’t remember when. They’re enforcing the argument for piracy by stealing media from their customers.
