Comment by stingraycharles
4 years ago
Fundamentally businesses have no morals, and everything is just an equation based on profits. If it makes economical sense to do this, many a business would be inclined to do it.
Not saying that it’s right, but it’s definitely completely understandable why we need laws to protect consumers.
I mean a company like this can always deny you the things you've paid for by going out of business and closing the platform.
You should just assume that if you buy a digital license to something that it's never really yours
True. We probably need a law for that too.
The movie still exists. The license should just be transferred to another platform, or DRM should be removed so you don't need the platform to see it anymore.
If companies fail to comply with this, maybe we'll need laws forbidding "selling" with DRM or something like that.
The companies should write "rent" or "lend" instead of "buy" if they want to be able to remove access to a movie.
Otherwise it should just be considered theft or fraud.
If you torrent it, it is yours forever. Copyright is a fiction.
> it’s definitely completely understandable why we need laws to protect consumers.
Do we really? Rutracker has everything that was mentioned as removed. And much more. These “consumer protecting” laws are actually a patch on business protecting laws, increasing a bit their survivability.
That's why (big) business usually do a cost analysis of breaking the law. Profit is the goal. It seems that a lot of people forget about that.
Humans have no morals too, and everything they do is for personal profit.
If I sell you a car, and decide I want it back, without a refund (if I even want to sell it back to you), and if take it back - that it's called stealing your car. Same should be done with Sony and courts should punish them enough, so that they won't even think about doing that again, and neither will the other companies.