• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      You are not entitled to get things the way you want them.

      “You want to purchase something and use it the way you want to? How entitled can you get?”

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      Right, and the way licenses work should be illegal. If I purchase something, I should be able to do whatever I want with it, for as long as I choose to. That’s what purchase means.

      If I rent/subscribe to something, that only lasts for the duration of my contract.

      Sure, I’m not entitled to get things the way I want, but am entitled to get things the way they were advertised. If I buy a game, I should be able to play it even if the publisher shops selling it. They have options on how to handle that, either by releasing the server code so I can self-host it, removing the server bits so I can play offline, or continuing to keep servers online for existing owners.

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        1 month ago

        If I rent/subscribe to something, that only lasts for the duration of my contract.

        Just to reinforce your point, if you rent/subscribe to something, the duration should be known at the time. The fact that they can pull the plug at any time without a prior warning is what makes it a scam.