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Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us?
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this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2024
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It's because we are buying access to product not the product itself. Many websites are doing that, I lost a few purchased albums on Bandcamp for whatever reason they see fit. With one band it was done so bad that I still see their albums in my wishlist even though they just one day went and deleted their whole band account apparently without stating reason or answering email.
Of all the comparisons you could make, you compared it to a website you can buy the files, and download them DRM free?
This is the one example where you can actually keep the files even if the band deleted their account.
It also claim that with purchase you get infinite streaming.
In that case it was Bandcamp who deleted it. Literally the person in control of the band account with, at the very least, thousands sells of numerous albums (both digital and physical) awoken up one day and couldn't find it. Deathspell Omega is the band. And I still see some of the albums in my wishlist. Sometimes the option to buy it suddenly appears, but then is gone with refresh. They did it so poorly that it broke the website/app in a minor way.
I swear to God that website is going to implode one day and it's going to be sad.
I'm down with the removal of its necessary, but notification should be legally mandated.