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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And the money grows on trees? You do realise that the money comes from people purchasing the product?

Slower software because of DRM is an issue for, I estimate, perhaps 1 % of the software that is pirated on a regular basis. If even that.

The few seconds of a screen you "have to wait through", no, I do not think that justifies not paying for an entire movie.

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

not all of it.

You estimate wrong.

Why not?