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by whinythepooh 2394 days ago
> I'm not saying the whole n-as-a-service culture is a bad thing.

Is is not a bad thing, it is a horse @#$*! It smells with rentier capitalism and serfdom. Especially IP and copyright which is just a global cenzorship in disguise.

Lack of control and dependency on third-party is what I don't like the most. All I want is to buy a thing and forget about the seller.

- Cannot upgrade, downgrade, copy on-demand

- Tied to lifetime, profitability of the service

- Cannot fix the price

- Cannot prevent from adding "features" like ads or microtransactions

- Connectivity requirements

- One more account

- No privacy

- Cenzorship (ban, restriction by territory)

The list goes on.

> In 2012, Bruce Willis took Apple to court after discovering that he couldn't leave his iTunes library to his children - on his death, the rights are nullified

We need something like this for wealth.