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Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? (www.androidpolice.com)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Sharing pirated content to millions of people is stealing, I agree. But it started differently. You bought the CD and you could lend it to friend, your game worked. Right now you buy games and only you can play it. Which is different with any other form of physical good. I buy a car I can let someone drive it for a day. Why shouldn't this apply to digital goods as well? That's how piracy started, because we couldn't share our goods with friends anymore. Digital companies decided it's loss for them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Also, it's legal to make a backup copy of something you own for personal use. And yet we can't make backup copies of games even for personal use. I guess we don't own them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Right now you buy games and only you can play it. Which is different with any other form of physical good. I buy a car I can let someone drive it for a day. Why shouldn't this apply to digital goods as well?

Yeah absolutely. Which is something I am completely agreeing of. But the thing is that doesn't give us the right to steal it or make ourselves think it is not stealing. What I am doing is not buying such companies' products + pirating if I really need it. But I don't try to make it seem like how it is not (e.g. as it is not stealing).

That's how piracy started, because we couldn't share our goods with friends anymore. Digital companies decided it's loss for them.

I am pretty sure when Napster was a thing music CDs were still a thing as they are now too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I don't know about you guys, but I share my digital games all the time. Steam and Switch have pretty decent share setups.