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[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

what about when you rent something

[–] grey_maniac@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When you rent something, you can share it. You rent a car, you can have passengers. You rent an apartment, you can have visitors. You rent a tool, you can lend it to your neighbour.

[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 1 points 1 month ago

kind of like when you rent movies or shows you can watch them with your friends? this is also barely relevant to the paying to rent vs own argument

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Then it's rent and not bought. That shitty excuse "akshualy you only bought the license, can't do what you want with it" is just abuse, because the buyer never gets clearly informed beforehand.

[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 2 points 1 month ago

if we're still talking about spotify it's pretty clear you are not actually purchasing all of music for $15