We live in a boring dystopia. There could've been clones and extreme dna mods but no we have. "uwu you didn't pay youw ink biww teehee now you can't use youw pwintew"
@@notfundy240 You can blame the standard of medical research ethics and the FDA ban on ethnically challenging research such as gene editing, cloning, and genetic manipulation.
@@MondoChow777If they continued what they were doing in the 60s, maybe we could've had human clones by now. But hey, that's kinda stupid and brings more problems; I'm glad they realised that.
@@notfundy240 You're upset we don't have stuff that screws with DNA? I mean, there's lots of other ways to screw yourself up right now. Worked out so well for AstraZenica right?
We Will come back to monk, medieval scripture and paper press so Quick. Why i have to Buy for something free Everywhere. It's not like domestic printer print faster than my hand with a pen.
Exactly. In what world are some of these commonly understood to be “buying”? It should clearly state the terms under “purchase”. Like, “purchase license”. Not, “buy movie”
Colloquially, the terms came about because of what it meant for the consumer: Renting a movie meant you have to return the cassette or DVD to the rental store. Buying it meant that you weren't under contractual obligation to return the media in any foreseeable future. This is largely a shift in semantics, because with digital rights management (DRM), what was all but in name owned, can now be easily revoked or changed by the owner of the content. That raises a lot of novel concerns when it comes to consumer rights. And this is bringing to a head a fight that we had decades ago over software EULA's. However, the goal was misplaced. Rather than focusing on rewriting law to better suit modern computer technology to protect consumer rights and also intellectual property (IP), it focused on forcing businesses to stop using a EULA--which would never happen while the laws remained unchanged, and rightly so. Simply, all we need to change in the law to read is that if copying the media is part and parcel to the end-user consumption of the media, it doesn't indicate a rescinding of rights to the IP being copied. There's no need for a EULA at that point. Only then is it time to target companies that continue using a EULA for anything but live services. But at the same time they absolutely deserve to have their IP's protected, so until the law changes, it's only proper for them to use a EULA.
I agree 100%. And for a long time it’s been an ok thing because who cares if millionaires and billionaires aren’t making as much good that they aren’t. And I know digital is the thing now and has been but I think its so much better to buy physical versions like old cds,vinyls,tapes and all that when it comes to music. And best you aren’t supporting big business just some local shop that sells old music. And best part you actually own it a company can’t say you cant listen to it any more because we don’t some other company does. Same thing with film and video games. But when it comes to stuff that’s new or to expensive pirating or emulating is still a great way to go. Sorry if this is to long a read but I think it’s important.
@@deudzbecause it's true. If I paid for a video game, movie or music from a store online and they restrict access to it, I'm going to have zero qualms about pirating it and you shouldn't either
Tell that to the service industry. I think it makes sense in some products that require constant upkeep like software, cloud services etc. Otherwise you'll be stuck with a software that's outdated and they won't provide constant services to repair bugs and issues. But the contract should be written in such a way that people can opt out if they want.
Only thing that comes into play is liability (two parts). Liability where people try to modify their electronics that is still under warranty, break it trying to modify it (possibly due to ESD or busting a capacitor, etc), then try to pass it off as natural failure. Outside of warranty, no issues, but I can see the reason for companies to be hesitant for "home tinkerers". The second liability comes with safety (particularly with new self driving cars). Installing parts incorrectly or cheap parts may cause the car to respond erratically, and then becomes difficult to determine said modification in a car wreck (particularly in electric cars if the battery shorts and then ignites the car). But many other cases (like printers/laptops/etc), it's just a money grab.
I'm like okay give me license but be much cheaper than the real ownership version. For example I could finish a game I don't plan to replay a lot so I could 'risk"it getting taken away. But a lovable game I want to keep forever
@@alihorda the subscriptions aren't cheaper. They're much much more. Over time it adds up to far more than if just bought a game cartridge that the buyer owns. Everything is turning into subscription even our printers and coffee makers. That is turning everything into an expensive nightmare
There’s a similar concept with farming. You can buy seeds from a company, plant them, and harvest the crops to sell. BUT you can’t harvest the crops and use them to make more seeds for the next harvest. ABSOLUTELY WILD.
@@emanuelgoncalvessantos4499 GMOs, sometimes. These plants are modified to produce steril seeds or no seeds at all. Hence things like seedless grapes where it is literally impossible to grow them from the harvested crop. You'd be terrified to learn just how much your food is altered...
@@CasshernSinz1613 I'm not, you seen an actual wild watermelon compared to even a non gmo selectively bred one? We're just using evolution to suit our needs.
Yep. Good ol days of pride in craftsmanship, integrity, honesty and made in America are all long gone. Its only getting worse. "You will own nothing and be happy."
@@aj_mcnamara Taking the pins means the bowling alley has fewer pins. Taking a picture of the pins and using it to manufacturer your own pins is equivalent to "piracy"
If someone made a 1:1 copy of the bowling alley and let you play there for free, the first alley is the "victim" of "piracy" in the same way that streaming platforms or tech companies are
@puddlejumper3259 But that's not what piracy is doing. Tons of products/software people buy can be set up with open source liscenses. That's building the pins. Most piracy is more like sneaking into a movie theater or concert. The information is what is being "sold".
@@aj_mcnamara If the gap between my statement and your poor interpretation of it were any narrower we wouldn't be able to fit my pirated media collection through it.
Corporate greed, while often highlighted, is a buzzword. As you mature, you may come to see that corporations aren't the core issue. The real concern lies in unchecked government spending.
And they built these things to break and customer service will give you a refurbished model even if it’s yours is still new while you pay for extended coverage. Everything falls apart now while my grandma has had the same appliances since I was born.
I just went back to buying CDs and Blu-rays/ DVDs. Sick of all this subscription services. It is just media companies looking for ways to control how we use it, even though it was struck down decades ago.
But you still got to vote for him because of the scwaee scwaree Trump & Project 2025, even though every election they have used fear-mongering to get your vote
Unfortunate qoute that summarizes recent generations. They dont care about physical media or anything really because they are use to owning nothing. Car nor house hell theyre even having payments on phones smh.
Pass the bill asap. Companies are already making too much selling products at an insane profit margin and their greed pushes them to squeeze out even more.
Your coffee maker also works like this. That's why I don't own anything "smart." I use the poorest oldest things. Women hate it but I don't waste money
@UKsystems I once purchased android office suite, much like Microsoft office suite but for android, and one day my "right" to use it was gone along with apps and e-receipt proving I purchased the right to use the them.
@@parriscreamer5798 that means that the app was removed for violating a policy or containing a virus so there was likely a very very strong reason behind it being removed likely causing harm
@@UKsystems However you look at it, it was a goods/service they had paid for, withthe expectation of being able to use it at their discretion, and said ability to use it was removed. At the very least they should have gotten an apology, an explanation, and a partial refund.
@@warriormaiden9829 I do agree they should have that but also it is made abundantly clear. You’re only purchasing a license to access it when it is available.
I know people who only buy hard copies of things because they're afraid that at any time something like this will happen and all their digital purchases will be gone.
This is doable for things like films and I would strongly recommend it, but sadly for modern software and games even physical discs won't save you. Often they only actually contain a small portion of the product and the rest has to be downloaded from an online server so when they get taken down it's game over.
There's a reason I recommend Sai for an art program. It may be abandonware, but you can find it for free, and you don't have to worry about being charged an arm and a leg for the program your livelihood depends on while you fight your customers on payment for the week-long commission you just did as they rant and claim that AI can do it better.
I've been saying this since 2004 when a software I bought wouldn't install 2 years after I bought it because it required "remote activation" and the company just decided they "don't support that product " anymore.
Had that happen to me with a couple of video games stopped being supported on Mac. I eventually figured out a workaround but it was deeply frustrating. I paid for the games, I should be able to move them from one computer to another.
@christinefarrell6438 Before long you won't be able to start your car without "remote activation", which basically asks the manufacturer each time you start your car for permission to do so. How could they legally get away with that? Well, certainly you need their latest software update for "safety".
Until they make newer TV's to where there's no way to connect a DVD player or blueray player. I hate that games are mostly not physical copies anymore. Soon everything will be non physical copies so we can't own anything.
@@paulagoeringer9466 kinda unrelated to owning stuff but they also got rid of adobe flash drive, so I can no longer play my favourite childhood online games :(
I remember when record labels started putting drm control on CDs, so you couldn't rip them and, since it was Windows/Apple based, I couldn't even listen to them because I had a Linux computer. Awful stuff
@paulagoeringer9466 Unless the players themselves stop being produced *and* the industry standard changes from HDMI to something else afterwards, that's extremely unlikely. Game consoles, streaming devices, and plenty of other TV peripherals all use HDMI, and even if both of those criteria do occur, there will no doubt be HDMI -> whatever the new format is converters like how there are AV -> HDMI converters now.
In Europe we have the right to repair for 2 years already and we like it! Manufacturers also have to design their products that they are easy to repair 😊
@@kalindiyaits a few separate regulations, user removable/replacable baterys are coming into effect in 2027 but right to repair is allready in effect, and if patent holder is abusing theor right to patent in such a way as to make it imposibile for 3rd partys to make repairs (apple I am looking squarely at you), most European states permit 3rd partys to make those parts without a licence and do not consider such an act as IP infringment.
It is actually because of old-school software piracy of Microsoft Word and other software back in the 90s - that now Microsoft sells a “subscription” to Word and other software in the Microsoft 365 Suite. People can’t pirate a subscription.
@@perfectsplit5515 😂😂😂 yeah.... Sure that's it.... 😂😂😂 What if I tell that I have some subscription based pirated software, Microsoft office included. 😂😂😂 Edit: your reply is bullshit, isn't because of piracy is because of greed, they have record profits, because subscription based means that the client pays you every month, not only once for the product. Even though the company paid once to develop the software they now receive monthly payments for that software and make a lot more of cash than say selling the product once to one costumer.
This is such a stupid argument made by people who don't have a single original thought in their brain. Try and think for yourself before you regurgitate bullshit.
@@ms.pirate it's always great to support small artists! However, I think there's a big difference in pirating Taylor Swift's music and pirating your local indie band's. One is a literal billionaire whose livelihood will never be affected by anything you do, and one does rely on every bit of income they get.
@@ms.pirate Most indie creators believe in preserving their medium, we fight hard so that our creations can be preserved over time without having to depend on a service (as far as possible)?
Doesn't this just incentivize manufacturers as a whole to just not produce physical media. If enough do so in tandem unless you're willing to live with no media at all you have to use digital services. Alternatively like most games just produce physical media that are download links or require online company proprietary software you have to connect to to use. Goes with physical devices mentioned here too, if every toaster car and other commodity that's mass produced runs this model you'll have to give in or dumpster dive. Competing vs monopolies of that industry or being walled out of transport/selling monopolies (think brick and motor and amazon sales bans on non big brand products) isn't really a viable option to compete and dealing with patented equipment might block future alternatives too.
This is why as a movie lover the debate for physical media is so important. If I buy the physical disk the movie is mine, can watch it whenever. Don’t have to deal with a streaming service potentially taking it away from me/having to pay a monthly subscription to watch a film I love
Eh, that's becoming an issue as well. I forget which racing game it is but the studio that made it shut down the server for the game and now no one can play it. Even those with physical discs. Can't play offline or the single player campaign. Players were told they just need to get used to not owning the games that they buy.
The thing I resent about subscriptions is that you end up paying $5 a month for something that you only use once a year and while that may not sound expensive it all adds up when you subscribe to more and more things most of which are rarely used and forgotten about. it's a bad deal for consumers
But it's GREAT for the economy. And we live in a country where a Senator tried to limit legislation via corporate donations and he got ZERO support from you and me.
@@sierrabravo7368 It's a bad deal when the consumer is too stupid to take advantage of the subscription. It's a great deal when you set reminders and manage it wisely. Don't be a victim. Take control of your situation.
@@uhm6577 Which was a warning, not a threat. But few people give a crap about context these days: In 2016, Auken published an essay originally titled "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better",[2] later retitled "Here's how life could change in my city by the year 2030", on the WEF's official web site. It described life in an unnamed city in which the narrator does not own a car, a house, any appliances, or any clothes, and instead relies on shared services for all of his daily needs. Auken later added an author's note to the story responding to critics, stating that it is not her "utopia or dream of the future", and that she intended for the essay to start discussions about technological development
good on PBS for calling it correctly and unbiased. and when done so its immediately apparent why corporations need strict restrictions on their behavior against the people.
Exactly. Hewlett Packard is what comes in mind first when you think about buying and not owning things. You own their printers as furniture, but when it comes to actually printing, it's the big corporation who decides, whether you print or not.
Toyota tried to implement a subscription service on their newer vehicles. What, you may ask, would the subscription cover? I'm not sure about all, but one major thing it would have covered was remote start. That's right. Toyota wanted to charge a monthly fee that would allow you to remote start your vehicle with your key fob. The backlash was so swift and severe that they ceased that effort, but they've thought about it, so I wouldn't count it out completely yet.
Why not? BMW charges a subscription for heated seats 🤣. The problem is that we let them get away with this, when too many people just pay for the service.
Most of Toyota pickups are turned into technicals with machine guns on the flatbed in third world conflicts. I can't imagine warlords paying monthly subscription fees.
@@urhunn7778 I would expect resistance to such a charge. In the US, we get charged ridiculous amounts for prescriptions and other countries get a much cheaper price. If we have subscription services, are they global, or would that not be implemented in other countries? I have no idea. The issue, as I see it, is if one company is successful at putting something like remote start or even remote locks behind a paywall/subscription, then all other manufacturers will certainly follow suit.
This is why I’ve recently purchased an enormous physical media movie/TV-series/anime collection, along with a huge collection of retro video-games and consoles. No corporate overlord is going to dictate what I can or can’t watch or play. Me and my family and generations down the line will have all the entertainment they need in their own ownership. Including an enormous library of entertainment and educational books to go along with it all.
When Microsoft when subscription for office, I was so mad. Because I use to only buy and pay for it once and I could reinstall it whenever my computer started to act up. TWO, I could use it indefinitely in a remote area without internet, there was no need to go scrambling to find wifi when you're out in the middle of no where. It would just work and you could use Word, excel, powerpoint, anything without wifi. Good thing wordpad is still available on the computer.
Thank you for calling attention to right to repair. This is something that's so important that if we don't deal with it now, we're all going to suffer generations down the road. We all need to make sure that we educate one another on right to repair and being able to repair our own stuff is just a basic right
If you want to buy digital media products, there are several ways to do it in which you can retain the file yourself for all of the things you mentioned it is worth doing that they are significantly cheaper
This is nice, but if you're like me, it's impossible to buy every single book, cd and dvd out there. Not only because I have a wider range of interest, but moving and storing so much media is exhausting.
@@Judithica Well, there is other side of medal. I cannot legally buy stuff on Steam, all payments are restricted since 24th february 2022. It especially hurts when you need to buy some in-game content and not an actual game. So you have to look for foreign services in Kazakhstan or somewhere else and overpay 20-50% to buy something you need...
People should start suing these companies when they "revoke" products that are bought! If a company is gonna take my movies, shows, music or games away after I've already paid for them, I see no reason why I shouldn't just pirate my own stuff instead.
@@holyromanemperor420oh no. A multi billion dollar company loses a bit of money here and there so they're gonna screw over the millions of paying customers to make up for it.
@@hanzzel6086 People who pirate things pirate things not because they theoretically wouldn't be able to see movies they supposedly "bought" if the host goes bankrupt, but because they don't want to spend money on it/don't have money. Also, you still haven't addressed my argument. What do you even mean by "owning" movies and series? And would you have the money to BUY each one of those movies and series you watch?
@@holyromanemperor420 A big part of most current (game) piracy is simply to have an *actual permanent copy* of the thing. And you would own *a copy* of it. You would be able to produce as many copies for your own *personal use* as you like, but would not be allowed to distribute it.
There has been a big push for right to repair where i live. It makes sense to me that people should be able to repair the things they own. Things deteriorate naturally, but it seems underhanded to purposefully make something deteriorate faster and then pass it off as just as good.
Actually, they word it as a purchase simply because most people do not understand what licensing is they are legitimate reasons why and a lot of the time you can download lots of things you purchase on license to retain forever
@@UKsystemsand what you don't understand shill is that those licenses can still be revoked and if the company that houses it should ever fail bye bye your licenses
@@umokwhy2830 this is why you choose a company that cannot revoke a license. There are plenty of options out there for purchase even pick one where you can download it as a nonproprietary format. You just need to research the company as many of them do a lifetime license, but it cost a tiny bit more.
For games, we're operating on good faith only. Steam says if it ever goes under they're going to make sure people can keep their games, which who knows how chaotic it would be if they ever collapsed. Gog lets you download all the game installers so you can back them up yourself. But, even if they go under will it be with enough notice for people to make sure they have anything? Would the pressure on the servers be too much for a folding company?
@@LightsaberGoBrrrrrr I love @DailyDoseOfInternet but I confess I don't remember he saying that. That said, isn't that something almost natural to anyone to feel? :)
Yep, I'm looking at my Epson printer that I barely use due to the bullshit ink cartridge chip scam setup on the damn system software telling me to replace ink, I replaced the ink and barely used the machine. It's a big business scam.. I stopped using the printer.
@@blueoval250 honestly, yeah! This subscription crap is nonsensical, and criticizing a terrible product is fundamental in a healthy free market. Also, as a homeowner and landlord in a country with high property taxes, I prefer them much more than other taxes. I have exclusive rights on a piece of land, but it doesn't come from any natural rights. Also, I'm earning money with no further effort (even if I worked hard to buy property). Give me property taxes anytime! #GeorgistsUnite
Of course they are. They're just being quiet about it, like a bunch of the shit that slips through. They're so full of themselves that I struggle to think of ways they would even change their minds.
In 2016, Auken published an essay originally titled "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better",[2] later retitled "Here's how life could change in my city by the year 2030", on the WEF's official web site. It described life in an unnamed city in which the narrator does not own a car, a house, any appliances, or any clothes, and instead relies on shared services for all of his daily needs. Auken later added an author's note to the story responding to critics, stating that it is not her "utopia or dream of the future", and that she intended for the essay to start discussions about technological development
@@kelpermoon23 "buying" implies it's a lifetime license. Of your life (or the platform providing the service, whatever ceases to exist first), not the life of the contracct between a platform and a publisher.
If you purchase a license agreement, you never owned the software to begin with. You are illegally obtaining said software if you don't have a license to access it, which is, at the bare minimum, theft of a potential sale causing direct monetary damage to the company. There is plenty of legal precedence for being sued for this.
If a company calls it buying/ purchasing, and refers to "your content", but hides the legalese on page 27 of their EULA, they're not being upfront about what they're providing you. You're being mislead that you're buying or purchasing, like having rights to property that you own. But they can take away said rights, and alter the deal that you can't say no to in any way, or negotiate in any form? Scummy moves that screw the consumer, that companies get away with.
@@kassmalz2069 imagine insulting someone for explaining how the world works. Next you're going to tell me I'm a landlord's "butliker" because I explained to you how rent and mortgages work. Clearly this subject is beyond your comprehension. I suggest learning how to read and write basic English before you try to wrap your feeble and insufficient mind around basic transactions, contracts and license agreements.
Glad that right to repair is buzzing I'm mainstream now. I've been a huge advocate ever since I wanted to fix my first iPhone when my iPhone 4 glass broke
I personally believe in the right to repair any item you purchase and also the right to modify any item you purchase to make it better and work more efficiently maintenance if necessary
@@pyrobaka5227modifications aren’t supposed to void warranty in the us but the law doesn’t apply to any mega corporations. They can only void the warranty if they can prove that you damaged the product by modifying it. Here’s an example. Let’s say you upgraded the hard drive and six months later then screen stops working. That would still be covered under warranty but since the consumer protection laws are not enforced in the us the warranty would be void. You might be able to get around these bs policies by putting the original hard drive back in, if there is no warranty sticker but otherwise you could maybe go to small claims, I’m not sure how that works.
Totally agree. The entire economy is like this now. I'm slowly regressing back to tech that worked great in the first place. Cory Doctorow's work definitely convinced me.
One of the dumbest things I've heard is companies like BMW charge you a monthly subscription fee to use the heated seat feature in your car. You already BOUGHT the car, but you can't use the heated seats without paying extra. YET, regardless if you opt in or out of this ridiculous add-on it's installed in the car. That sounds like the definition of a SCAM
BMW and Mercedes both have inbuilt tracking systems in the engine management system . If you renagage on your lease payments, they will repossess the vehicle . However, if your car is paid for and is subsequently stolen , then you're on your own Jack ! They won't assist you in locating your car , because they fully expect you will buy a new replacement . Tio , buy the lowest mileage pre 2002 Mercedes diesel you can find and have it regularly serviced, and it will last you a lifetime .
@@josuastangl7140 oh yes, for sure! But warranty is until some point. I think it was 5 years or 10 at max. After that you can do whatever you want with the car. In Europe there are many people who buy second hand cars and most of them are without warranty, and that is the case I am talking about.
I really felt the printer one. I foolishly agreed to only use HP:s Ink in my current printer for its lifetime, a decision that will likely cost me more than the price of the printer.
Yeah, HP got a lot of us with their low entry price and high ink prices. Glad the internet has fully documented how shit of a company they are and at least some other people can avoid them now.
Might be time to run the numbers and cut your losses. I heard Brother is a company that hasn't been doing that and is easy to deal with. Also Epson. My current HP is one of the last good ones, when it dies, I'm never owning another HP.
I have an old HP that’s okay, before they enforced ink drm. I will never buy another HP printer due to this, and I try to avoid HP in other cases as well for the same reason.
I've always preferred buying physical media since it meant it couldn't be retroactively taken from me. A lot of people around me growing up thought I was silly, and that everything being digital was far more convenient. Until recently, when companies stopped hosting some of the media they bought.
I remember seeing an interview with the writer bell hooks years ago where she said she likes to write and sell actual books. She said one day she might go online and find all of her work is gone. She was clearly prophetic when she made this observation.
Why i strictly buy physical books, and other media whenever I can. Music is tough, when you have such broad tastes, but video games, movies and books are fairly easy to purchase the physical media for
@@Gooutsideforonce but even games can be deactivated remotely. Most games require a link to external servers for various reasons. It can easily be programmed that even if you use a physical disk, the code from that disk can be flagged to not activate the game to launch. So, frankly, anything that can be connected to the internet is at risk of being remotely controlled if the keys are registered remotely as well.
@@Gooutsideforonceyup, even though it’s more expensive, I’d rather pay $24 for a physical copy than $14 for an ebook I don’t know if I’ll have access to in a decade. Recently had to buy a book for book club because the library didn’t even have copies.
Piracy is legit becoming the only way to archive old games for example. Because complanies can just discontinue them and everyone playing loses access unless they have a pirated copy. Messed up times we live in.
People: I wanna play this old game Companies: nah we’re discontinuing it People: then I’ll pirate it Companies: no! That’s illegal! Spend money instead! People: so can i buy this game? Companies: no 👍🏻
@siral2000 if I buy something to play or watch, I should be able to play or watch it wherever I want, and not need a internet connection. If thst purchased product can get stolen from me by the company I bought it from. Why should I even buy it or buy anything else from them in the future? At that point, pirating is better. Negative times a negative equals a positive afterall.
Yep, started out with computer software, moved to tractors, progressed through phones to cars, (cycle counter on your starter?) printers, next thing you know a paid off congressman won’t do what he promised.
Ironically the same people that want the right to repair, are voting for the party that votes for corporate interests. Particularly Farmers that want to repair their million dollar tractors.
See, the difference here is that, if you actually read the license agreement, you'd know that you never owned the game to begin with. Even games on CDs and cartridges are not yours. You merely own the medium, but the software itself is proprietary and comes with an EULA where you agree that you only have a license to use the data. If you OWNED the data, you'd be allowed to do everything you ever wanted with it and the company couldn't do anything to stop you. But since you only have a license to use it under specific conditions, the company can sue you for tampering with the data, copying it or reselling it unless doing so is protected by law - as is the case in the EU, where you're allowed to make back-ups of digital media for personal use.
@@SleepyFen In my country (Germany/EU), the EULA is void because you are forced to agree to it after you bought it, so after the contract has been concluded. We have laws regulating licenses. This is the case even for free software when the EULA isn't signed before the download. Also, in Germany specifically, "surprising ToS" or "ToS that put the consumer at an unfair disadvantage" are prohibited. Your license being revoked because of a contract between two parties ending ticks both those boxes. Digital purchases / licenses can't just be revoked one-sided, not without a proper refund at least.
This is a strictly Us problem btw. In the EU it is, mostly, pretty clear: if you bought it and aren’t disruptive with your usage of the object/software ie: cheating in a online videogame, manufacturing pirated copies etc. your ownership cannot be revoked
No. The central bank in Europe issues the same debt note currencies that are issued in America. Anyone using a debt note currency does not own what they think they own when they pay for it with their debt note currency
@@TrevorHamberger im gonna ignore you cause you entirely missed the fing point and idk if you just have roomtemp iq or are willfully ignorant. either way: im not gonna engage with that
@@deadfisher0000 you being ignorant of the mechanics of money does not bother me in the slightest bit. You're the one who's poor and doesn't know why. You don't even know you're going to get poorer
Even streaming services, they just license films and series, so there's no guarantee something you like to watch multiple times will be available on the same platform. Even exlusive content made by a service's own studio isn't guaranteed to stay. There was such an exclusive film I wanted to see, but ended up on a different platform
A monthly ink fee sounds dystopian as fuck
We live in a boring dystopia.
There could've been clones and extreme dna mods but no we have.
"uwu you didn't pay youw ink biww teehee now you can't use youw pwintew"
@@notfundy240 You can blame the standard of medical research ethics and the FDA ban on ethnically challenging research such as gene editing, cloning, and genetic manipulation.
@@MondoChow777If they continued what they were doing in the 60s, maybe we could've had human clones by now. But hey, that's kinda stupid and brings more problems; I'm glad they realised that.
@@notfundy240 You're upset we don't have stuff that screws with DNA? I mean, there's lots of other ways to screw yourself up right now. Worked out so well for AstraZenica right?
We Will come back to monk, medieval scripture and paper press so Quick. Why i have to Buy for something free Everywhere. It's not like domestic printer print faster than my hand with a pen.
There should also be a law where companies are forced to not say "Buy" but should say "Rent" instead
@@thesuperfryingpan8164 are you dumb? When you buy printers that have an ink subscription, it clearly states it on the packaging
Agreed
You're leasing a right to use under specific, revokable circumstances.
Exactly. In what world are some of these commonly understood to be “buying”? It should clearly state the terms under “purchase”. Like, “purchase license”. Not, “buy movie”
Colloquially, the terms came about because of what it meant for the consumer: Renting a movie meant you have to return the cassette or DVD to the rental store. Buying it meant that you weren't under contractual obligation to return the media in any foreseeable future. This is largely a shift in semantics, because with digital rights management (DRM), what was all but in name owned, can now be easily revoked or changed by the owner of the content. That raises a lot of novel concerns when it comes to consumer rights.
And this is bringing to a head a fight that we had decades ago over software EULA's. However, the goal was misplaced. Rather than focusing on rewriting law to better suit modern computer technology to protect consumer rights and also intellectual property (IP), it focused on forcing businesses to stop using a EULA--which would never happen while the laws remained unchanged, and rightly so.
Simply, all we need to change in the law to read is that if copying the media is part and parcel to the end-user consumption of the media, it doesn't indicate a rescinding of rights to the IP being copied. There's no need for a EULA at that point. Only then is it time to target companies that continue using a EULA for anything but live services. But at the same time they absolutely deserve to have their IP's protected, so until the law changes, it's only proper for them to use a EULA.
"When buying isn't owning, piracy isn't theft: it's just borrowing"
i knew someone would comment this
@@deudz it needs to be said
I agree 100%. And for a long time it’s been an ok thing because who cares if millionaires and billionaires aren’t making as much good that they aren’t. And I know digital is the thing now and has been but I think its so much better to buy physical versions like old cds,vinyls,tapes and all that when it comes to music. And best you aren’t supporting big business just some local shop that sells old music. And best part you actually own it a company can’t say you cant listen to it any more because we don’t some other company does. Same thing with film and video games. But when it comes to stuff that’s new or to expensive pirating or emulating is still a great way to go. Sorry if this is to long a read but I think it’s important.
@@deudzbecause it's true. If I paid for a video game, movie or music from a store online and they restrict access to it, I'm going to have zero qualms about pirating it and you shouldn't either
It's not "theft", that's a shorthand. It is copyright infringement
And this is why I avidly support right to repair. We pay for the product so we deserve to own that product.
You'd think that'd be a pretty basic assumption but apparently not these days
@sodium7127 late stage capitalism
Here in Brasil, we already have the right to repair, since the 90's...
exactly
@@davihtolucky
"Do corporations really own the money they receive after selling a product under retail contract?"
Nah they just borrowed it, if the customer get something that isn't agreed upon they take their money back
Good point 😂
@@xSkysilverUnless that company makes returning the item more expensive than the item costs
YES. And they can _still_ recind your software license.
@@drtavernerBold of you to assume I paid for it lol. No one is rescinding anything. They don't even know I have it lol.
Not only should a right to repair law be passed but also a rights of ownership one IF YOU BOUGHT SOMETHING IT'S YOURS period
Tell that to the service industry. I think it makes sense in some products that require constant upkeep like software, cloud services etc. Otherwise you'll be stuck with a software that's outdated and they won't provide constant services to repair bugs and issues.
But the contract should be written in such a way that people can opt out if they want.
Only thing that comes into play is liability (two parts). Liability where people try to modify their electronics that is still under warranty, break it trying to modify it (possibly due to ESD or busting a capacitor, etc), then try to pass it off as natural failure. Outside of warranty, no issues, but I can see the reason for companies to be hesitant for "home tinkerers".
The second liability comes with safety (particularly with new self driving cars). Installing parts incorrectly or cheap parts may cause the car to respond erratically, and then becomes difficult to determine said modification in a car wreck (particularly in electric cars if the battery shorts and then ignites the car).
But many other cases (like printers/laptops/etc), it's just a money grab.
You're absolutely right
I'm like okay give me license but be much cheaper than the real ownership version. For example I could finish a game I don't plan to replay a lot so I could 'risk"it getting taken away. But a lovable game I want to keep forever
@@alihorda the subscriptions aren't cheaper. They're much much more. Over time it adds up to far more than if just bought a game cartridge that the buyer owns. Everything is turning into subscription even our printers and coffee makers. That is turning everything into an expensive nightmare
There’s a similar concept with farming. You can buy seeds from a company, plant them, and harvest the crops to sell. BUT you can’t harvest the crops and use them to make more seeds for the next harvest. ABSOLUTELY WILD.
How is this enforced?
@@emanuelgoncalvessantos4499 GMOs, sometimes. These plants are modified to produce steril seeds or no seeds at all. Hence things like seedless grapes where it is literally impossible to grow them from the harvested crop.
You'd be terrified to learn just how much your food is altered...
@@CasshernSinz1613 I'm not, you seen an actual wild watermelon compared to even a non gmo selectively bred one? We're just using evolution to suit our needs.
I mean tbf a legit farmer would probably go crazy trying to use non packaged seed.
@@emanuelgoncalvessantos4499lobbying.
This is a much bigger problem than people realize, especially for our farmers.
Right to repair. I remember when I was a kid repair shops were everywhere….
Yeah apple is a big reason they aren't anymore
@@Do93y Which is why I don't support apple
Ever seen the movie Robots?
As a Mexican I thought repair shops didn’t exist in usa because of how consumerist Americans were
Yep. Good ol days of pride in craftsmanship, integrity, honesty and made in America are all long gone. Its only getting worse. "You will own nothing and be happy."
Ahoy there! If paying for something in full does not grant ownership, then piracy is not theft.
If I pay to go bowling, that doesn't mean I own the bowling alley. But stealing the pins to play at home definitely is illegal.
@@aj_mcnamara Taking the pins means the bowling alley has fewer pins.
Taking a picture of the pins and using it to manufacturer your own pins is equivalent to "piracy"
If someone made a 1:1 copy of the bowling alley and let you play there for free, the first alley is the "victim" of "piracy" in the same way that streaming platforms or tech companies are
@puddlejumper3259 But that's not what piracy is doing. Tons of products/software people buy can be set up with open source liscenses. That's building the pins.
Most piracy is more like sneaking into a movie theater or concert. The information is what is being "sold".
@@aj_mcnamara If the gap between my statement and your poor interpretation of it were any narrower we wouldn't be able to fit my pirated media collection through it.
In Brooklyn you don't really own your bicycle. You rent it from the thieves.
Let's hope they pass this.
"Building artificial barriers" that prevent repair and "void warranties" is a great example of corporate greed
as always, this is not corporations doing this. it's government. they don't want anyone to be able to modify their 100% control of the device.
Corporate greed, while often highlighted, is a buzzword. As you mature, you may come to see that corporations aren't the core issue. The real concern lies in unchecked government spending.
@@natetechr it's possible for multiple entities to be at fault
And they built these things to break and customer service will give you a refurbished model even if it’s yours is still new while you pay for extended coverage. Everything falls apart now while my grandma has had the same appliances since I was born.
This is why physical media is better than digital media
I just went back to buying CDs and Blu-rays/ DVDs. Sick of all this subscription services. It is just media companies looking for ways to control how we use it, even though it was struck down decades ago.
@@traingirl09 yes! Amazing to hear. Something special about it I find
Books being my fave. You don’t even need electricity to use them.
@@ladycactus110, you will still need electricity to read them.
@@traingirl09 i have candles.
“You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy” wow!
I was just going to say the same thing.
But you still got to vote for him because of the scwaee scwaree Trump & Project 2025, even though every election they have used fear-mongering to get your vote
Unfortunate qoute that summarizes recent generations. They dont care about physical media or anything really because they are use to owning nothing.
Car nor house hell theyre even having payments on phones smh.
The world the left dreams of.
@@observer.b_e_l_l_i_sno one is happy about it. We are all saying this sucks. We can’t get a house. Can barely get a car. We aren’t happy.
Pass the bill asap. Companies are already making too much selling products at an insane profit margin and their greed pushes them to squeeze out even more.
Your coffee maker also works like this. That's why I don't own anything "smart." I use the poorest oldest things. Women hate it but I don't waste money
Women are shallow and materialistic. Finding one that's not, is extremely hard.
This is why I like older tech. Like CD, DVDs and mid-90's cars.
You can actually just purchase them online through companies that let you own it indefinitely and have a proven record for it
@UKsystems I once purchased android office suite, much like Microsoft office suite but for android, and one day my "right" to use it was gone along with apps and e-receipt proving I purchased the right to use the them.
@@parriscreamer5798 that means that the app was removed for violating a policy or containing a virus so there was likely a very very strong reason behind it being removed likely causing harm
@@UKsystems However you look at it, it was a goods/service they had paid for, withthe expectation of being able to use it at their discretion, and said ability to use it was removed. At the very least they should have gotten an apology, an explanation, and a partial refund.
@@warriormaiden9829 I do agree they should have that but also it is made abundantly clear. You’re only purchasing a license to access it when it is available.
I know people who only buy hard copies of things because they're afraid that at any time something like this will happen and all their digital purchases will be gone.
This is doable for things like films and I would strongly recommend it, but sadly for modern software and games even physical discs won't save you. Often they only actually contain a small portion of the product and the rest has to be downloaded from an online server so when they get taken down it's game over.
There's a reason I recommend Sai for an art program. It may be abandonware, but you can find it for free, and you don't have to worry about being charged an arm and a leg for the program your livelihood depends on while you fight your customers on payment for the week-long commission you just did as they rant and claim that AI can do it better.
Here me 🤚 and making bootlegs of movies that you cant buy
This is why I buy cds of music I really like, or at least try to. If I find a 🏴☠️ DVD of infinity train, I'll buy it
Or movies edited.
Physical media 💯
CA is the only state starting to tackle this issue. RIGHT TO REPAIR is so important.
Really? I thought they were all new age and up for this kind of crap.
thats cute 😂 theres MANY states addressing this issue.
PBS out here spittin facts
I've been saying this since 2004 when a software I bought wouldn't install 2 years after I bought it because it required "remote activation" and the company just decided they "don't support that product " anymore.
Had that happen to me with a couple of video games stopped being supported on Mac. I eventually figured out a workaround but it was deeply frustrating. I paid for the games, I should be able to move them from one computer to another.
@christinefarrell6438 Before long you won't be able to start your car without "remote activation", which basically asks the manufacturer each time you start your car for permission to do so. How could they legally get away with that? Well, certainly you need their latest software update for "safety".
@@fredtaylor9792the more I hear about nonsense like that, the more Im inclined to hang on to my 20+ yo 300k+ mile car.
@@fredtaylor9792 If it gets like that so help me I will start a company specifically to unlock things that are software locked.
"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy"
The fact that digital movies and albums can just straight up be removed is the reason i buy everything i like on DVD or BluRay. Buy it and keep it
Yep. I do the same 😊❤
Until they make newer TV's to where there's no way to connect a DVD player or blueray player. I hate that games are mostly not physical copies anymore. Soon everything will be non physical copies so we can't own anything.
@@paulagoeringer9466 kinda unrelated to owning stuff but they also got rid of adobe flash drive, so I can no longer play my favourite childhood online games :(
I remember when record labels started putting drm control on CDs, so you couldn't rip them and, since it was Windows/Apple based, I couldn't even listen to them because I had a Linux computer. Awful stuff
@paulagoeringer9466 Unless the players themselves stop being produced *and* the industry standard changes from HDMI to something else afterwards, that's extremely unlikely. Game consoles, streaming devices, and plenty of other TV peripherals all use HDMI, and even if both of those criteria do occur, there will no doubt be HDMI -> whatever the new format is converters like how there are AV -> HDMI converters now.
Jailbreaking is going to be such a common practice for every single device you own
And this is why I fix all of the old stuff from the early 2000s and back and buy DVDs instead of streaming.
In Europe we have the right to repair for 2 years already and we like it! Manufacturers also have to design their products that they are easy to repair 😊
Wasn't that passed recently. I remember there was some info that all smartphones will need to have removable battery
Europe thrives on veiled socialism. Stay away from the US with that BS. We love our freedom.
@@kalindiyaits a few separate regulations, user removable/replacable baterys are coming into effect in 2027 but right to repair is allready in effect, and if patent holder is abusing theor right to patent in such a way as to make it imposibile for 3rd partys to make repairs (apple I am looking squarely at you), most European states permit 3rd partys to make those parts without a licence and do not consider such an act as IP infringment.
Minnesota passed a similar law. Yay.
@@aleksandarmaksic5040based EU
With bs like this nowadays, piracy is only becoming more of a good thing than a bad thing.
It is actually because of old-school
software piracy of Microsoft Word and other software back in the 90s - that now Microsoft sells a “subscription” to Word and other software in the Microsoft 365 Suite. People can’t pirate a subscription.
@@perfectsplit5515but they can still pirate the software when its cracked
@@perfectsplit5515You have no idea what you are talking about about. You, as an individual, can use M$oft 365 for FREE. Their model has changed.
@@perfectsplit5515 yeah sure they cant...
@@perfectsplit5515 😂😂😂 yeah.... Sure that's it.... 😂😂😂 What if I tell that I have some subscription based pirated software, Microsoft office included. 😂😂😂
Edit: your reply is bullshit, isn't because of piracy is because of greed, they have record profits, because subscription based means that the client pays you every month, not only once for the product. Even though the company paid once to develop the software they now receive monthly payments for that software and make a lot more of cash than say selling the product once to one costumer.
Remember who got the ball moving on "Right to Repair".
The farmers.
Right to repair! Great reminder to donate to Dan Osborn’s Senate campaign in Nebraska.
This is why privacy is so huge right now. If buying isn’t owning, then stealing isn’t illegal.
Then what about the independent artists making the games and books (including comics and manga) you buy? They gotta eat somehow
This is such a stupid argument made by people who don't have a single original thought in their brain. Try and think for yourself before you regurgitate bullshit.
@@ms.pirate it's always great to support small artists! However, I think there's a big difference in pirating Taylor Swift's music and pirating your local indie band's. One is a literal billionaire whose livelihood will never be affected by anything you do, and one does rely on every bit of income they get.
@@ms.pirate Most indie creators believe in preserving their medium, we fight hard so that our creations can be preserved over time without having to depend on a service (as far as possible)?
@@borealwoodhow do you even pirate music it's free
Every company that sells any digital asset should be required by law to let you download it so you can keep it if ever they go out of business.
That’s an awful idea
That won't happen because that would make piracy even easier.
@@holyromanemperor420 yeah jt would literally make piracy the only affordable way to access media
@@kelpermoon23not really. If i need to pay money for a product. Companies just taking it away with no refund sounds like a scam.
@@Nigjaslayer9000 if I’m a company and I go outta business, how tf am I going to maintain the infrastructure for you to download it
This is also why buying physical media like DVDs, videogames and music is important to me.
Doesn't this just incentivize manufacturers as a whole to just not produce physical media. If enough do so in tandem unless you're willing to live with no media at all you have to use digital services.
Alternatively like most games just produce physical media that are download links or require online company proprietary software you have to connect to to use.
Goes with physical devices mentioned here too, if every toaster car and other commodity that's mass produced runs this model you'll have to give in or dumpster dive. Competing vs monopolies of that industry or being walled out of transport/selling monopolies (think brick and motor and amazon sales bans on non big brand products) isn't really a viable option to compete and dealing with patented equipment might block future alternatives too.
This is why as a movie lover the debate for physical media is so important. If I buy the physical disk the movie is mine, can watch it whenever. Don’t have to deal with a streaming service potentially taking it away from me/having to pay a monthly subscription to watch a film I love
This is why I always buy physical media if it is an option. I don’t mind waiting a few days if it means I own the stuff I buy.
Same.
The government wants to tax you on your physical media tooo.
Eh, that's becoming an issue as well. I forget which racing game it is but the studio that made it shut down the server for the game and now no one can play it. Even those with physical discs. Can't play offline or the single player campaign. Players were told they just need to get used to not owning the games that they buy.
Secondhand DVD shops 😻
@@Caitlynn552 The Crew. That's because the game was pretty much online only.
The thing I resent about subscriptions is that you end up paying $5 a month for something that you only use once a year and while that may not sound expensive it all adds up when you subscribe to more and more things most of which are rarely used and forgotten about. it's a bad deal for consumers
But it's GREAT for the economy. And we live in a country where a Senator tried to limit legislation via corporate donations and he got ZERO support from you and me.
@@Loralanthalasit's actually ruining the economy.
@@sierrabravo7368 It's a bad deal when the consumer is too stupid to take advantage of the subscription. It's a great deal when you set reminders and manage it wisely. Don't be a victim. Take control of your situation.
@@Loralanthalas it is not our responsibility to spend money to support the economy
It's a psychological trick is the thing that most fall for. Not me but most 😂
Louis Rossmann. Right to Repair.
"The stuff you own ends up owning you."
This is one of the most important conversations to have. "YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND LIKE IT."
*You will own nothing and be happy.
no one talking about doing anything so am assuming yall are falling in line by repeating their catchphrase
@@uhm6577 Which was a warning, not a threat. But few people give a crap about context these days: In 2016, Auken published an essay originally titled "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better",[2] later retitled "Here's how life could change in my city by the year 2030", on the WEF's official web site. It described life in an unnamed city in which the narrator does not own a car, a house, any appliances, or any clothes, and instead relies on shared services for all of his daily needs. Auken later added an author's note to the story responding to critics, stating that it is not her "utopia or dream of the future", and that she intended for the essay to start discussions about technological development
The EU already passed the right to repair law.
I believe a couple states in the US have too. It’s just a matter of time before the rest of the world does too, I hope.
Why does Europe have more human/ personal rights and freedoms than, "The Land of The Free,"
@@soup331emd5 because the land of the free is a lie.
We need this in America!! ❤
@@soup331emd5 because it's actually "The Land of The Free Corporations"
I'm seriously amazed that people buy products like this
Watching this video from India, nice video ✌🏻
This is simple. If buying isn't owning then pirating isn't stealing.
"You'll own nothing and be happy"
“Und live in ze pods, und eat ze bugs.”
That was said by some random local politician, not something with real power
@@tomlxyzlol no that is what the dems said.
@@f.a.a.f.o....genx1977 No, it wasn't. It was a statement from an economist at the World Economics Forum commenting on subscription platforms.
@@tomlxyz i believe it was klaus schwab the head of the world economic forum
good on PBS for calling it correctly and unbiased. and when done so its immediately apparent why corporations need strict restrictions on their behavior against the people.
Exactly. Hewlett Packard is what comes in mind first when you think about buying and not owning things. You own their printers as furniture, but when it comes to actually printing, it's the big corporation who decides, whether you print or not.
Right to repair isn't just electronics. It goes to all consumer equipment and products.
It applies to tractors. John Deere is horrible about it.
The problem is caused by government thanks to patents. There is a good video on this called "You hate these companies for the same reason"
@@Dumb_Killjoyit's so misunderstood
Toyota tried to implement a subscription service on their newer vehicles. What, you may ask, would the subscription cover? I'm not sure about all, but one major thing it would have covered was remote start. That's right. Toyota wanted to charge a monthly fee that would allow you to remote start your vehicle with your key fob. The backlash was so swift and severe that they ceased that effort, but they've thought about it, so I wouldn't count it out completely yet.
Why not? BMW charges a subscription for heated seats 🤣. The problem is that we let them get away with this, when too many people just pay for the service.
Most of Toyota pickups are turned into technicals with machine guns on the flatbed in third world conflicts. I can't imagine warlords paying monthly subscription fees.
@@urhunn7778 I would expect resistance to such a charge. In the US, we get charged ridiculous amounts for prescriptions and other countries get a much cheaper price. If we have subscription services, are they global, or would that not be implemented in other countries? I have no idea. The issue, as I see it, is if one company is successful at putting something like remote start or even remote locks behind a paywall/subscription, then all other manufacturers will certainly follow suit.
@@grahf4077all it takes is one nerd to jailbreak the system.
@@grahf4077I wish our government would protect consumers more, but sadly the right to make money is more important, as capitalism goes. 😕
This is why I’ve recently purchased an enormous physical media movie/TV-series/anime collection, along with a huge collection of retro video-games and consoles. No corporate overlord is going to dictate what I can or can’t watch or play. Me and my family and generations down the line will have all the entertainment they need in their own ownership. Including an enormous library of entertainment and educational books to go along with it all.
When Microsoft when subscription for office, I was so mad. Because I use to only buy and pay for it once and I could reinstall it whenever my computer started to act up. TWO, I could use it indefinitely in a remote area without internet, there was no need to go scrambling to find wifi when you're out in the middle of no where. It would just work and you could use Word, excel, powerpoint, anything without wifi.
Good thing wordpad is still available on the computer.
Thank you for calling attention to right to repair. This is something that's so important that if we don't deal with it now, we're all going to suffer generations down the road. We all need to make sure that we educate one another on right to repair and being able to repair our own stuff is just a basic right
Why I buy hard cover books, DVDs, CDs, etc. Also why I am keeping all my old electronics.
Oh, u can have digital media, too.
Google Anna's Archive and f-movies.
Exactly!
If you want to buy digital media products, there are several ways to do it in which you can retain the file yourself for all of the things you mentioned it is worth doing that they are significantly cheaper
@@UKsystems EMP & CME ...saving money upfront is negated by the total loss at the moment an event occurs.
This is nice, but if you're like me, it's impossible to buy every single book, cd and dvd out there. Not only because I have a wider range of interest, but moving and storing so much media is exhausting.
No sht! Been saying this for years it’s about time you caught up.
Vaguely reminds me of something like "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy" we have already been in that track on our way right here for decades
My husband and I work very hard to avoid subscription-based anything.
Better said than done.
I have no subscription-based services at all and i say the internet has so much freedom there (i live in Russia)
@@NoName-ze8kz that's super nice!
@@Judithica Well, there is other side of medal. I cannot legally buy stuff on Steam, all payments are restricted since 24th february 2022. It especially hurts when you need to buy some in-game content and not an actual game. So you have to look for foreign services in Kazakhstan or somewhere else and overpay 20-50% to buy something you need...
@@NoName-ze8kz that really sucks. Pirating of possible is the main route for most of us these days.
People should start suing these companies when they "revoke" products that are bought! If a company is gonna take my movies, shows, music or games away after I've already paid for them, I see no reason why I shouldn't just pirate my own stuff instead.
That's the paradox, giving you the ability to download it outside of their platform makes it MUCH MUCH easier to pirate it.
@@holyromanemperor420oh no. A multi billion dollar company loses a bit of money here and there so they're gonna screw over the millions of paying customers to make up for it.
@@holyromanemperor420 And yet fewer people would feel the need to pirate things....
@@hanzzel6086
People who pirate things pirate things not because they theoretically wouldn't be able to see movies they supposedly "bought" if the host goes bankrupt, but because they don't want to spend money on it/don't have money.
Also, you still haven't addressed my argument. What do you even mean by "owning" movies and series? And would you have the money to BUY each one of those movies and series you watch?
@@holyromanemperor420 A big part of most current (game) piracy is simply to have an *actual permanent copy* of the thing. And you would own *a copy* of it. You would be able to produce as many copies for your own *personal use* as you like, but would not be allowed to distribute it.
They also tax us on the stuff we buy. It’s called personal property tax cars and equipment
There has been a big push for right to repair where i live. It makes sense to me that people should be able to repair the things they own.
Things deteriorate naturally, but it seems underhanded to purposefully make something deteriorate faster and then pass it off as just as good.
Selling a licence to use not own is a crime against humanity
Actually, they word it as a purchase simply because most people do not understand what licensing is they are legitimate reasons why and a lot of the time you can download lots of things you purchase on license to retain forever
@@UKsystemsand what you don't understand shill is that those licenses can still be revoked and if the company that houses it should ever fail bye bye your licenses
@@umokwhy2830 this is why you choose a company that cannot revoke a license. There are plenty of options out there for purchase even pick one where you can download it as a nonproprietary format. You just need to research the company as many of them do a lifetime license, but it cost a tiny bit more.
For games, we're operating on good faith only. Steam says if it ever goes under they're going to make sure people can keep their games, which who knows how chaotic it would be if they ever collapsed.
Gog lets you download all the game installers so you can back them up yourself. But, even if they go under will it be with enough notice for people to make sure they have anything? Would the pressure on the servers be too much for a folding company?
Don't rent a house. Purchasing a lease or rental agreement definitely does not make you the owner of the house.
If you told someone 100 years ago, they dont own the stuff they worked hard to buy, and they'd probably string you up by your thumbs
And call you a witch 🧙♀️ 🧙♂️
Except you're not buying, you're renting.
@@843idfawhen you buy a printer you are not fucking renting it. You are buying it and then getting fucked sideways by the company for ‘ink fees’
Miss those days people had morals back then your TV would last 20 30 yrs
@@jeremybaker195100 years ago?
This is also why piracy isn't stealing, it's copyright infringement.
that's why I buy physical copies of all media whenever possible as long as the device playing it works you play it forever
If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing
Factually wrong
Tell this to ubisoft.
@kelpermoon23 let it go
@@undoctrinati0n why?
@@undoctrinati0n ?
The ink fee radicalized me, not gonna lie.
You’re just stealing that from DDoI. But still… we’re glad to have you
@@LightsaberGoBrrrrrr I love @DailyDoseOfInternet but I confess I don't remember he saying that. That said, isn't that something almost natural to anyone to feel? :)
Yep, I'm looking at my Epson printer that I barely use due to the bullshit ink cartridge chip scam setup on the damn system software telling me to replace ink, I replaced the ink and barely used the machine. It's a big business scam.. I stopped using the printer.
Not taxes or property taxes? But something that is completely voluntary that’s what radicalized you?
@@blueoval250 honestly, yeah! This subscription crap is nonsensical, and criticizing a terrible product is fundamental in a healthy free market.
Also, as a homeowner and landlord in a country with high property taxes, I prefer them much more than other taxes. I have exclusive rights on a piece of land, but it doesn't come from any natural rights. Also, I'm earning money with no further effort (even if I worked hard to buy property). Give me property taxes anytime! #GeorgistsUnite
This is really deep man
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for spreading awareness about right to repair.
"You will own nothing and you will be happy" im so glad that never caught on and so terrified rhat theyre still pushing it
Of course they are. They're just being quiet about it, like a bunch of the shit that slips through. They're so full of themselves that I struggle to think of ways they would even change their minds.
The fact it's still a thing shows it did catch on...
In 2016, Auken published an essay originally titled "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better",[2] later retitled "Here's how life could change in my city by the year 2030", on the WEF's official web site. It described life in an unnamed city in which the narrator does not own a car, a house, any appliances, or any clothes, and instead relies on shared services for all of his daily needs. Auken later added an author's note to the story responding to critics, stating that it is not her "utopia or dream of the future", and that she intended for the essay to start discussions about technological development
This is why I use custom stuff and keep things on physical media
Not just electronics. If you buy a lawnmower, you should OWN the lawn mower and be allowed to repair/modify it how ever you want.
Should be illegal, all those sites list on the "click" button that its "Rent" or "Buy" not "Temporary or Long Lease" its theft imo.
It’s not, your paying for a license
@@kelpermoon23 "buying" implies it's a lifetime license. Of your life (or the platform providing the service, whatever ceases to exist first), not the life of the contracct between a platform and a publisher.
@@kelpermoon23 hence me saying its a scam or at very least a dark pattern designed to mislead the buyer.
@@QwoaX buying does not imply anything
@@kelpermoon23 "Buying does not imply anything" may be the wildest (and dumbest) statement I've ever heard.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if purchase isn’t ownership, piracy isn’t theft
If you purchase a license agreement, you never owned the software to begin with. You are illegally obtaining said software if you don't have a license to access it, which is, at the bare minimum, theft of a potential sale causing direct monetary damage to the company. There is plenty of legal precedence for being sued for this.
If a company calls it buying/ purchasing, and refers to "your content", but hides the legalese on page 27 of their EULA, they're not being upfront about what they're providing you. You're being mislead that you're buying or purchasing, like having rights to property that you own. But they can take away said rights, and alter the deal that you can't say no to in any way, or negotiate in any form? Scummy moves that screw the consumer, that companies get away with.
@@SleepyFen ok corpo butliker. own nothing and be happy
@@kassmalz2069 imagine insulting someone for explaining how the world works.
Next you're going to tell me I'm a landlord's "butliker" because I explained to you how rent and mortgages work.
Clearly this subject is beyond your comprehension. I suggest learning how to read and write basic English before you try to wrap your feeble and insufficient mind around basic transactions, contracts and license agreements.
@@SleepyFen did i hit a nerve, corpo serf?
I'm so glad I was raised in a Mexican rural area.
Glad that right to repair is buzzing I'm mainstream now. I've been a huge advocate ever since I wanted to fix my first iPhone when my iPhone 4 glass broke
I personally believe in the right to repair any item you purchase and also the right to modify any item you purchase to make it better and work more efficiently maintenance if necessary
It's why I refuse to buy any iPhones, Mac, Tesla
Agreed, if anything I understand modifications voiding a warranty, but not being allowed to at all is ridiculous
@@pyrobaka5227modifications aren’t supposed to void warranty in the us but the law doesn’t apply to any mega corporations. They can only void the warranty if they can prove that you damaged the product by modifying it. Here’s an example. Let’s say you upgraded the hard drive and six months later then screen stops working. That would still be covered under warranty but since the consumer protection laws are not enforced in the us the warranty would be void. You might be able to get around these bs policies by putting the original hard drive back in, if there is no warranty sticker but otherwise you could maybe go to small claims, I’m not sure how that works.
@@WorldCitizenWOr John Deere 😢
Let's go back to DVD or Physical media.
Anything which increases ypur direct control and ownership is good. Guarantee is just a dependace and thats not good position to be in
Totally agree. The entire economy is like this now. I'm slowly regressing back to tech that worked great in the first place. Cory Doctorow's work definitely convinced me.
You should’ve stayed with that to begin with
@@jollama ...we all "should" have. What's your point? Did you?
@@jollama ☝🏼 VERY intelligent human discovers hindsight.
No, if it says buy you actually buy it.
So sue away if companies try to infringe.
This is why I buy DVDs still😅
One of the dumbest things I've heard is companies like BMW charge you a monthly subscription fee to use the heated seat feature in your car. You already BOUGHT the car, but you can't use the heated seats without paying extra. YET, regardless if you opt in or out of this ridiculous add-on it's installed in the car. That sounds like the definition of a SCAM
pretty sure it can be hacked
@@damyandimitrov611Probably not without voiding warranty
Ive heard of this didnt know it was true ill look it up that is wrong
BMW and Mercedes both have inbuilt tracking systems in the engine management system . If you renagage on your lease payments, they will repossess the vehicle . However, if your car is paid for and is subsequently stolen , then you're on your own Jack ! They won't assist you in locating your car , because they fully expect you will buy a new replacement .
Tio , buy the lowest mileage pre 2002 Mercedes diesel you can find and have it regularly serviced, and it will last you a lifetime .
@@josuastangl7140 oh yes, for sure! But warranty is until some point. I think it was 5 years or 10 at max. After that you can do whatever you want with the car. In Europe there are many people who buy second hand cars and most of them are without warranty, and that is the case I am talking about.
I really felt the printer one. I foolishly agreed to only use HP:s Ink in my current printer for its lifetime, a decision that will likely cost me more than the price of the printer.
Yeah, HP got a lot of us with their low entry price and high ink prices. Glad the internet has fully documented how shit of a company they are and at least some other people can avoid them now.
Might be time to run the numbers and cut your losses. I heard Brother is a company that hasn't been doing that and is easy to deal with. Also Epson. My current HP is one of the last good ones, when it dies, I'm never owning another HP.
You can buy hacked printers. Get them, they will run forever and save you thousands of bucks.
I have an old HP that’s okay, before they enforced ink drm. I will never buy another HP printer due to this, and I try to avoid HP in other cases as well for the same reason.
in some cases, it is cheaper to buy a new printer when yours runs out of ink.
Louis Rossman is one of the ppl who set the ball rolling
I own what I buy, and I have the big stick to prove it.
I've always preferred buying physical media since it meant it couldn't be retroactively taken from me. A lot of people around me growing up thought I was silly, and that everything being digital was far more convenient.
Until recently, when companies stopped hosting some of the media they bought.
I bought a digital copy of E.T. and months later a particular scene has been changed on my copy without my consent or forewarning.
They can disable it when you place it into the reader.
I remember seeing an interview with the writer bell hooks years ago where she said she likes to write and sell actual books. She said one day she might go online and find all of her work is gone. She was clearly prophetic when she made this observation.
Why i strictly buy physical books, and other media whenever I can. Music is tough, when you have such broad tastes, but video games, movies and books are fairly easy to purchase the physical media for
@@Gooutsideforonce but even games can be deactivated remotely. Most games require a link to external servers for various reasons. It can easily be programmed that even if you use a physical disk, the code from that disk can be flagged to not activate the game to launch.
So, frankly, anything that can be connected to the internet is at risk of being remotely controlled if the keys are registered remotely as well.
prophetic.. more like using simple deduction
@@Gooutsideforonceytmp3 then burn it on a CD. Why pay at all if you can get it for free, lmao. Never paid for any kind of media my whole life.
@@Gooutsideforonceyup, even though it’s more expensive, I’d rather pay $24 for a physical copy than $14 for an ebook I don’t know if I’ll have access to in a decade. Recently had to buy a book for book club because the library didn’t even have copies.
I am previous generations, and this video would be right at home in the dystopia movies and shows I watched growing up
Right to repair has existed for a very long time. They're actively trying to take that right away.
Piracy is legit becoming the only way to archive old games for example. Because complanies can just discontinue them and everyone playing loses access unless they have a pirated copy. Messed up times we live in.
These idiots are destrying the system which made them rich in the first place.
People: I wanna play this old game
Companies: nah we’re discontinuing it
People: then I’ll pirate it
Companies: no! That’s illegal! Spend money instead!
People: so can i buy this game?
Companies: no
👍🏻
@@ashlynrobison310lmao! Soo true.. You better download the files and back up the files on hard drives..
This ^@@ashlynrobison310
Piracy is the most beneficial thing to happen for retro gaming because without it we'd lose entire libraries of games for now defunct systems.
This is why I pirate everything now.
If I don't own what I buy, then I am not stealing. As the product was never for me to own when I buy it.
You literally own the license, are you an idiot?
Just because you can't get something in the manner that you choose does not entitle you to it. In other words, two wrongs don't make a right.
@@siral2000Paying legal tender in exchange for the purchase of a product does in fact entitle me to it?? What are you even on
@@krunchyapples I was talking about piracy as stated in the original comment. What are you on that made you ignore the context?
@siral2000 if I buy something to play or watch, I should be able to play or watch it wherever I want, and not need a internet connection.
If thst purchased product can get stolen from me by the company I bought it from. Why should I even buy it or buy anything else from them in the future? At that point, pirating is better.
Negative times a negative equals a positive afterall.
Right to Repair is crucially important right now. But Right to Repair is extremely important for where we're going.
That would be a very prudent and helpful law. Especially with computers.
So glad to see PBS talking about this issue. This has gotten so bad it’s unbelievable when you dig into it.
It's just part and parcel of life when you have to support 'the current thing'.
Yep, started out with computer software, moved to tractors, progressed through phones to cars, (cycle counter on your starter?) printers, next thing you know a paid off congressman won’t do what he promised.
Ironically the same people that want the right to repair, are voting for the party that votes for corporate interests. Particularly Farmers that want to repair their million dollar tractors.
@irenepetty5206 Both parties are against right to repair. It's just that your preferred party gets away with lying about it.
If owning isn't owning, then expropriation of corporations isn't theft.
See, the difference here is that, if you actually read the license agreement, you'd know that you never owned the game to begin with.
Even games on CDs and cartridges are not yours. You merely own the medium, but the software itself is proprietary and comes with an EULA where you agree that you only have a license to use the data. If you OWNED the data, you'd be allowed to do everything you ever wanted with it and the company couldn't do anything to stop you. But since you only have a license to use it under specific conditions, the company can sue you for tampering with the data, copying it or reselling it unless doing so is protected by law - as is the case in the EU, where you're allowed to make back-ups of digital media for personal use.
If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing!
SAIL THE HIGH SEAS MY FRIENDS! IT'S NOT WORTH THEIR TIME TO STOP US!
@@SleepyFen In my country (Germany/EU), the EULA is void because you are forced to agree to it after you bought it, so after the contract has been concluded. We have laws regulating licenses. This is the case even for free software when the EULA isn't signed before the download. Also, in Germany specifically, "surprising ToS" or "ToS that put the consumer at an unfair disadvantage" are prohibited. Your license being revoked because of a contract between two parties ending ticks both those boxes. Digital purchases / licenses can't just be revoked one-sided, not without a proper refund at least.
the ball has already started rolling, it is unstoppable.
I’m 30 and all my friends give me a hard time for buying cds and dvds still, but I’ve been thinking this way for years
If corporations could just funnel your paychecks directly into their pockets they would.
They call it a debit card and a bank account access to that is basically in your pocket
Louis Rossman!! Glad yall helping the movement!
Mr Clinton approved
*i looked for this comment!!!*
Right...that Dude from N.Y. who recently moved to TX. who repaired laptop computer equipment... I'm aware of him....😊❤ GO LEWIS ROSSMAN....!!!
@@jananabanana3180 *eso es todo / that's what i'm talkin 'bout!* 👍
Shame this fight seems to be driving him nuts
If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing
India has this right to repair
This is a strictly Us problem btw. In the EU it is, mostly, pretty clear: if you bought it and aren’t disruptive with your usage of the object/software ie: cheating in a online videogame, manufacturing pirated copies etc. your ownership cannot be revoked
No. The central bank in Europe issues the same debt note currencies that are issued in America. Anyone using a debt note currency does not own what they think they own when they pay for it with their debt note currency
@@TrevorHamberger im gonna ignore you cause you entirely missed the fing point and idk if you just have roomtemp iq or are willfully ignorant. either way: im not gonna engage with that
@@TrevorHambergerOh, you wrote "note" and used a term tangentially related to the original idea. You must be right.
@@deadfisher0000 mock me all you want I don't give a s***. You're the one living in slavery because you don't understand the mechanics of money
@@deadfisher0000 you being ignorant of the mechanics of money does not bother me in the slightest bit. You're the one who's poor and doesn't know why. You don't even know you're going to get poorer
Remember this when it comes to books as well.
I do like having books on my phone or kindle but important books are always best in print
Exactly.
I have one of those printers and had no clue until it stopped printing until I paid HP to print again.
Even streaming services, they just license films and series, so there's no guarantee something you like to watch multiple times will be available on the same platform. Even exlusive content made by a service's own studio isn't guaranteed to stay. There was such an exclusive film I wanted to see, but ended up on a different platform