Then it’s rent and not bought. That shitty excuse “akshualy you only bought the license, can’t do what you want with it” is just abuse, because the buyer never gets clearly informed beforehand.
When you rent something, you can share it. You rent a car, you can have passengers. You rent an apartment, you can have visitors. You rent a tool, you can lend it to your neighbour.
If you don’t own what you pay for, then pirating is not unethical. Period.
This makes Anna’s archive a bit problematic with that logic since when you pay for a paper you get a PDF copy?
These companies maintain that even though you possess a PDF, you still do not own it and do not have the rights associated with ownership.
I would consider it more problematic if the author of the paper got any of that and not the journal the author had to pay to be published
That’s a different point
what about when you rent something
Then it’s rent and not bought. That shitty excuse “akshualy you only bought the license, can’t do what you want with it” is just abuse, because the buyer never gets clearly informed beforehand.
if we’re still talking about spotify it’s pretty clear you are not actually purchasing all of music for $15
When you rent something, you can share it. You rent a car, you can have passengers. You rent an apartment, you can have visitors. You rent a tool, you can lend it to your neighbour.
kind of like when you rent movies or shows you can watch them with your friends? this is also barely relevant to the paying to rent vs own argument