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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Doubtful. TOS would state that you're only licensing the media. If the media no longer exists, the license no longer exists.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Day 10,490 of saying it should be flatly illegal to call a lease a purchase. Companies should never be allowed to use language that implies ownership of a product when what you're buying is a permanently revokable temporary lease.

    "But it's in the TOS, what they're doing is perfectly legal" yeah the problem is that it's legal

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Fraud is still fraud, even if they call it something else.

    The consumer was led to believe, they could access the media for a long time. The time was abruptly cut short. The consumer did not get what they were led to believe. It's fraud.

    It's like every other (consumer-)fraud before: they can write in the fine print whatever they want.


    I am not saying that this argument will definitely hold up in court. I just want to point out, that it's not so clear-cut as you are presenting it.

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