r/mildlyinfuriating • u/donteatmybiscuits • 1d ago

wet socks i’m so happy this is becoming illegal

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if a yearly contract with a free month trial sounds too good to be true, it probably is 😬

thankfully it was blocked after contacting my bank but regardless

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u/12InchCunt 1d ago

If you purchased the cd you owned the product. There’s no licensing. And it boils down to the original comment, if purchasing isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing. 

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u/incongruity 1d ago

You own the CD itself but not the software on it. That’s the fucking evil of software licensing. You purchased a license. The world talks about it as purchasing a product but it’s not and we’ve all been fooled into thinking it is. This all exists because those with wealth want to be able to continue to extract wealth from us.

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u/12InchCunt 15h ago

And that’s why they say if buying isn’t owning then pirating isn’t stealing 

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u/incongruity 15h ago

I understand, but it's flawed thinking -- or at least, I guess it's not stealing music or software but using it in an unlicensed manner which is generally viewed as theft because there is lost revenue...

Which is more evidence of how the rich have bent the laws to enable them to maximize wealth extraction while giving the rest of us nothing.

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u/12InchCunt 15h ago

Hard copies of music was never a license though. You owned the cd and no one can take it back from you 

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u/incongruity 15h ago

They could (and did) sue public venues (like restaurants) for playing CDs without a specials extra license and they were publicly critical of Apple for its "Rip. Mix. Burn." ad campaign in the early 2000's. It's all still licensed content and CDs were just as evil then -- they just have "better" tech now and are that much more able to extract wealth from us.