<story><title>Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/apple-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-its-definition-of-the-word-buy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Diggsey</author><text>IMO it wouldn&amp;#x27;t matter if they&amp;#x27;d used the word &amp;quot;Rent&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Licence&amp;quot; instead: it would still be unreasonable. Account termination is entirely at Apple&amp;#x27;s discretion, meaning the term of your &amp;quot;rental&amp;quot; is not known when you actually pay for the content.&lt;p&gt;For most people the term will be &amp;quot;forever&amp;quot;, so that is the expectation.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s simple: if apple want to terminate your account, they need to refund you for any content you lose access to as a result of that termination.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>Seriously. It&amp;#x27;s well past time that Congress passes a law explicitly to that effect -- if you lose access to purchased content, whether because your account was terminated or the content was removed, you get 100% refunded. End of story. Any TOS to the contrary are invalid.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/apple-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-its-definition-of-the-word-buy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Diggsey</author><text>IMO it wouldn&amp;#x27;t matter if they&amp;#x27;d used the word &amp;quot;Rent&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Licence&amp;quot; instead: it would still be unreasonable. Account termination is entirely at Apple&amp;#x27;s discretion, meaning the term of your &amp;quot;rental&amp;quot; is not known when you actually pay for the content.&lt;p&gt;For most people the term will be &amp;quot;forever&amp;quot;, so that is the expectation.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s simple: if apple want to terminate your account, they need to refund you for any content you lose access to as a result of that termination.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threatofrain</author><text>Apple can just rent you their entire catalogue similar to Apple Arcade or Music, then nobody would say you own the entire selection, just like it’d be absurd to say you own Netflix forever.&lt;p&gt;In the Netflix case it’s be even more difficult to argue since Netflix doesn’t own the IP and the catalogue is ever shifting. I’m afraid the future is rental at least because the consumer is no longer technically prepared to own and manage their own digital catalogue.</text></comment>