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Clickbait headline. This is how it works with nearly all content you “buy” (music, movies, software, ...) You’re not buying the thing, rather you buying a licen
by code4tee 6y ago
Clickbait headline. This is how it works with nearly all content you “buy” (music, movies, software, ...) You’re not buying the thing, rather you buying a license to use something. That license has terms. This is nothing new and nothing specific to Amazon.
Go watch that text that flashed up on your old VHS tapes. You didn’t own it, you merely had a license to use it in a certain way. Invite too many people over to your house to watch a movie, you broke the license as now you’re staging a “public showing” and you don’t have a license for that. Schools used to get in trouble for this sort of thing when some kid brings in a home VHS tape and plays it at “school movie night.”
- bb88 6y agoWhen I bought a DVD from Walmart, Walmart didn't come to my house and claw the DVD back.
- sailfast 6y agoThe ability to broadly revoke these rights without any cause is different here, though. I don't think you can equate the two in the same way for this reason. You needed to take action against an individual before for a reason in order to prevent them from using the thing they purchased. In the streaming / heavy DRM case, no cause is required and no recourse is provided to the individual. You're just out of luck.
- itsoktocry 6y ago>Clickbait headline. This is how it works with nearly all content you “buy” Yeah...that's the entire point of the discussion being held. When did it become a thing to call everything "clickbait"? The headline is literally a description of their argument, which is the point being discussed. Do you know what "clickbait" is? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clickbait https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clickbait How does this qualify?