You can buy a perpetual license and then you own it (the license) regardless of storage or possession.
Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it
corroded@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you’re not receiving physical media, and you’re not saving a copy to local storage, then you’re not buying anything. You’re renting it.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 months ago
L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You can’t just go out and buy a perpetual license for any random thing you purchase.
corroded@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s great until they decide to stop providing whatever content you licensed.
BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just because you bought something and never picked it up it isn’t the stores fault. If you buy a perpetual license to digital code then never download it then cry when the store stops providing the source or updating it sounds like a you problem. Now a SaaS thing is weird. Like what do i do when I own a license for Helldivers 2 and the service turns off. That is like paying a person a lump sum for a service like trash but it is one person and you expect it to last at least 50 years since that person is young and they die next week. Now you are out the money and the service expecting the service would never end
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s not even the best metric. You save Destiny 2 to local storage, but you still don’t own that either.