EDIT: The only reason why I still had it at this point was because I could use it with other apps. However, now that my Spotify Subscription is cancelled, it doesn’t work with anything. It’s mildly infuriating because today, I can’t still use it with other apps like I was able to yesterday.
Please don’t make the same mistake I made. No one should buy this.
Buying any physical hardware that doesn’t function without a subscription should be a illegal, not something you should expect.
But the point is that the description of the product clearly stated it needs a subscription to function. You literally buy it with that understanding. If you didn’t read the description then it’s 100% on you.
Whether it should be legal or not, or whether it’s ethical or not, is a different discussion. But the product wasn’t disingenuous about how it works, so complaining about how it works exactly as advertised is a bit silly.
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A gas stove requires a subscription.
@pjhenry1216 @MyUnclesSecret Not quite. A gas stove requires gas. I can run it from canisters if I want to. In fact, I know someone who does.
It’s much more like a stove requiring a specific gas brand to work.
He can clearly turn on his Car Thing all he wants. Spotify is the gas company in this metaphor.
You can buy gas from anyone. Even make your own in a digester.
Your gas stove is not cryptographically locked to one gas company.
…yet.
Look out! Communists are coming for your toothbrush. Better vote for harsher penalties for modifying stuff you bought. The DMCA still allows throwing away or disconnecting the computer locking you out of your heated seats.
Gotta be an easier way to blow up your house.
Yes, many much easier ways. A propane tank for one. Wet, high CO2 methane is really hard to make explode.
Do get a CO detector though.
My furnace broke this summer (thank God it was summer) so we have CO monitors all over just in case something went fucky with the new install
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Every single modem and cell phone I’ve ever owned have worked without a subscription to anything. My internet and ability to make cell calls were limited after my subscription ended, but the devices themselves were easily repurposed to other uses.
In my country nobody (or at least, most people don’t) buy their own routers, it’s always a subscription on top of the existing internet service
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How about a law that if the service is no longer provided then the company needs to provide a means to unlock the device?
That way companies can still have their subscription stuff, but once they inevitably stop supporting the product it doesn’t become useless.
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