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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 16:48:00 JST 翠星石
@midway >But you don’t own it.
Nobody should ever "own" digital information that they have sent to other people.
>What you purchased was a license to use and that license has term and conditions. If you don’t like them, don’t use the product.
If you ever end up agreeing to a proprietary license, it is your duty to break such antisocial terms, although it's better not to agree to such terms in the first place, as breaking them can sometimes be illegal.
If you don't like how I would like to share information with my neighbors, you shouldn't have released that information.
>Just like a rental car.
No, as a physical object is scarce and cannot be copied, unlike digital information, which once exists, is not scare and can easily be copied.
>You are paying for a right to use it.
You are paying for the ability to deprive the usage of the rental car from the rental company and resulting physical wear on that car - not a "right to use".
Making a copy of digital information leaves the original one unchanged - usage of the original copy is in no way deprived and no wear is caused.
>Could you potentially buy the cat from the agency?
Yes, as the rental company isn't bothered if they lose a rental car, if they receive enough money - as all they care about is money.
If you pay them enough money, they'll be more than happy to do the insane task of driving any of their perfectly good rental cars to a scrapyard and getting it scrapped.
>Could you buy the full rights to the digital product? Sure, but that’s a different transaction with a different price.
This is a false parallel, as I've mentioned, nothing is lost when a copy of digital information is made.
The only thing that I can think of that is remotely similar is, if you were to pay any business enough money, such business will be happy to do the insane task of depriving themselves of the usage of any copies of digital information that they have by deleting all copies of it that they have.
Here is a good article that describes why proprietary licensing is of no value to society: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/07/07/producing-nothing.html