Comment by gwd
4 years ago
Anything that has the word "purchase" in it should be legally mandated that there be a way for users to access it indefinitely: in this case, perhaps making it possible to download with some sort of offline DRM. (You can do this, say, with Audible books that you buy.)
Anything which is cloud-only and may disappear at any time should be labelled something else, like "lease".
Yeah good point, it seems like something that should have rolled into all those privacy laws.
They'll just bury somewhere in the contract that you are purchasing the limited access to the good, not purchasing the good itself.
That is what they do but should not be what they can get away with.
It's not they'll like they will do it. This is what they have done.
It depends if purchase is defined in the countrys laws. Otherwise it can be defined as anything within the purchase contract.
you are responding to prescriptivism with descriptivism
As long as they didn't use the word in the definition of the word.