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Re:Working at Netflix 2017 by overcast on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @04:40PM (#14353123)
You're comparing a subscription service to a game that you purchased a license for. The former you're not entitled to a copy of, the latter you are. With or without DRM, companies are also entitled to revoke your licenses regardless. You don't own any of it. DRM would also not exist, if it wasn't for everyone stealing the stuff. Do you really think companies want to pour all of the money and resources into this, if they didn't have to? Should games even have keys without DRM? What if I lose the key, and the company folded years ago. Now I can't play the game because they dared to require a key to play. Is your solution making everything openly available to download, and just relying on the goodness of the human heart to pay for it? Good luck.
Re:Working at Netflix 2017 by silly_goose on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @05:53PM (#14353629)
We could call it "shareware"