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You’ve just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription | Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn’t making quite enough money... (www.theregister.com)
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You’ve just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription | Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn’t making quite enough money...::Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn't making quite enough money...

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[–] 40 points 2 years ago (1 child)

The real problem is the government not protecting consumers from such predatory business practices. It's almost certainly not legal, and if it is then it shouldn't be. After 3-4 companies are absolutely destroyed, companies will stop doing it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why would it not be legal?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    One could argue that if you buy a device that work "as is" and then with a later update it start to require a subscription to work, this change could not be that legal.

    To make an example: you buy a full optional car. 1 year later, an update make one of your option (let's say, the cruise control) a subscription service. That could be argued should be illegal.

    The problem is when the subscription model is introduced to the alredy sold devices, not on the new ones, like in this case.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm not in favor of this bullshit. I just want to know why OP thinks it's probably illegal. This is far from the first time this BS has happened.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Probably something along the line of breach of contract. You buy something with an implicit understandement that it work as inteded and advertised and that it should continue this way unless it broke (or it assolve its functions if it is the case).

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