If you purchase it and they can still take it away from you at will, it isn’t something that can be owned. If it isn’t something that can be owned, piracy isn’t stealing because for it to be stealing somebody would have to own it.

[–] martino@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That only applies to products though.

Getting a taxi and then running off without paying is still stealing, even though there's no theft of an actual product involved. There have always been legal ramifications for theft of services, and this is no different.

For the record I'm not shilling for Ubisoft here. They can eat a bag of dicks. I just think the point the meme is making is based on a false premise.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My original quote was in reference to a company who broke their customers' lifetime licenses to force them into a subscription model.

This is the video.

https://youtu.be/tkmOddW1vu8?si=jAqmaOjzwYvdgYap

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[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The original context of this quote. Which has suspiciously been removed, is in reference to subscription models taking off.

The original quote is more along the line of "a subscription model isn't feasible unless gamers get used to the idea of not owning their games"

So really any line of logic is flawed because it misrepresents the original comment.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

No it's not. I'm the guy who started this quote and it was on a Louis Rossmann video about a company who broke their customers' lifetime licenses to make them switch to their subscription model.

This is the video: https://youtu.be/tkmOddW1vu8?si=jAqmaOjzwYvdgYap

I'm technol33t.

https://lemmy.world/post/1098344

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm talking about the Ubisoft quote.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Ohhh that tracks.

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