🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Steam Finally Makes It Clear You Don’t Own Your Games'

11 October 2024 - kudos:

Look, I like Steam, but it’s still a sucky business model, like so many others today, link to “Steam Finally Makes It Clear You Don’t Own Your Games”

🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Second Circuit Says Libraries Disincentivize Authors To Write Books By Lending Them For Free'

6 September 2024 - kudos:

Deeply appreciate Masnick’s writeup. I don’t know the ins and outs of the law, and that’s given me some pause in being upset about the ruling. To see a lawyer find fault with so much gives me greater confidence in my own frustration. The most dangerous part, though, doesn’t require a law degree to understand. The logic of the findings poses a threat to all libraries, not just this one.

'licensed, not sold, to you'

15 January 2023 - kudos:

As I’ve blogged about a couple of times recently, I’m currently reading R. Sikoryak’s Terms and Conditions, a graphic novel adaptation of the 2015 iTunes Terms and Conditions document, which no one ever reads. I was struck (if not surprised) by something stated explicitly in the document, which appears on p. 59 of Sikoryak’s volume: The software products made available through the Mac App Store and App Store (collectively, the “App Store Products”) are licensed, not sold, to you.