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Even buying physical media, they claim you still don't own the content, are only leasing it. It's all bullshit to charge more and give us less. Stop defending this practice of eroding consumer rights
Nobody is eroding consumer rights. The consumer rights haven't changed. Maybe it's time to change that. Change legislation and stop pirating like monkeys.
Accessing content I paid for isn't pirating. And corporations have been working in eroding our ownership of the things we pay for years now. You can stop pretending they haven't