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You all remember just a few weeks ago when Sony ripped away a bunch of movies and TV shows people “owned”? This ad is on Amazon. You can’t “own” it on Prime. You can just access it until they lose the license. How can they get away with lying like this?

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I wonder if that would hold in court. They could simply use "rent" or "lease" in their ads, but they purposely are trying to mislead to imply permanence.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The people who can afford to fight this kind of court case have no interest in doing so.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Don't you have customer protection NGOs in the USA?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago

We have corporate protections in the USA.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

I can't believe you were able to ask that with a straight face

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

The consumer isn't the last rung on the ladder. We're on the fuckin ground. With footprints on our faces and medical bills to prove it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

to give an actual answer instead of jaded teenage bullshit:

yes, we have several

Don't expect any actual info from people around here. something tells me the comment section isn't up for a fair analysis at where these things have failed us. it'll be all soapbox, zero fact. I'm pretty baffled at how many people just told you No

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Of that list, BBB is apparently more of a business extortion scene. But consumer reports seems cool, I’ve used their site a few times.

The rest, I’ve never heard of

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't even know what that stands for

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

NGO is non government organization

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Why would they endanger the ability to sell the same movie dozens of times over?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Who tf is going to buy Aquaman 2 dozens of times? What's wrong with them?😭

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We should start a gofundme then to get the funds needed to afford such a fight. Id throw in 100$. Might take a few thousands of me, and a lot of time, but it should start somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Or join the EFF which already does great work in this area. They don't always succeed, but I doubt a GoFundMe could do better.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

Anything holds in court when you have more money than several small nations combined.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Or "watch". That way they don't have to make it obvious that their customers won't own it but still don't straight up lie.