• Skkorm@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    10 months ago

    Digital purchases are not you buying the product. It’s you buying limited and reversible access to the license to download the file. When you agree to the TOS, you agree to this arrangement.

    If you want to actually own something, you should be buying a physical copy of it.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      43
      ·
      10 months ago

      If you actually want something, pirate it.

      its the only way to actually own anything.

      Which is such an absurd and ridiculous thing to say, and its even more absurd and ridiculous we are at this point.

    • ToRA@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      10 months ago

      You are stating the facts of the current situation. However, that is the exact situation that needs to change.

    • psud@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      Or (in software) get open source software, so anyone can make a fork of it if the original goes off the rails