• mineapple@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    You’re only partly right. You example services. Of course it is not possible to own services. Piracy is only applicable to products. The point of the Twitter guy is, that companies intentionally stop selling their software etc. as products to sell you the same thing as a service, so that you cannot own it.

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      1 year ago

      Not only that. Remember when Sony said that you don’t own the PS4 you bought for several hundred bucks but just purchased the right to use it as intended so you’re not allowed to tinker with it and for example install another operating system or figure out how their security works.

      That’s what is meant by buying is not owning anymore.

      I could go on about cars with subscriptions for heated seats that are already installed but not turned on etc.