Much of the digital content we pay for and “buy,”, we don’t own. We are merely paying for a license to use it as long as the “seller” sees fit.
Without knowing all of the details, people have lost access to thousands of books they have bought from Amazon over many years because Amazon simply closed their account for a violation of some terms of service.
Fine. They agreed to the terms of service, is the normal response. And I would agree in other cases.. But they weren’t the terms of service they originally signed up for. Amazon (and other companies) can arbitrarily change them.
So there is simply no way to keep accessing what you paid for without ALSO agreeing to any new TOS they come up with. See what a catch 22 that is? At that point, you must accept ANY TOS changes or be willing to walk away from the thousands of dollars of content you already paid for. There isn’t another option.
It isn’t like they only apply going forward, and you can decide if you want to buy anything else or not, and what you have already paid for is safe from the changes.
The more we go digital, the more we will continue to encounter this BS.
They are also free to go in and remove books you paid for they no longer have the right to distribute, made editorial and content changes as well. If a word falls out of favor, with can be removed from the original book you felt like you were buying.
This reader explains the changes he doesn’t like in this video. Fellow ok enthusiasts should watch. I was only partly aware of some of this, and I try to follow this sort of thing.
This is about books specifically, but also applies to audio books, movies, music, etc.
https://youtu.be/xwU5xkXj7Kw?si=QGGsnUjM1u_h96RU
The more Amazon reveals itself, the fewer reasons I have to buy even the occasional item from them.
