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

  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    Because the issue at hand is more like if you bought tickets to the circus, but when you went to go see it you were told the circus isn’t there anymore and you don’t get a refund.

    That I would definately call stealing, and if I wanted to see the circus the next time it was in town I would absolutely sneak in.

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      2 years ago

      It’s like you bought a circus membership to watch the circus at a particular venue as many times as you want. You watched the circus a few dozen times, then one day the circus announces they won’t be going to that venue anymore and you can’t watch it anymore.

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      2 years ago

      A more honest analogy for the situation was that there are very few incidents of circuses doing that and now people demand it’s morally justified to get free entrance to every circus, concert, fair, museum, …