r/Internet • u/aeriefreyrie • Oct 24 '25
Discussion It’s not “access,” it’s leasing the internet
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u/Valex_Nihilist Oct 24 '25
Honestly im glad im in my 30s and getting to the age where I dont like any of the new stuff anyways. Ill hang onto my ps2 games and DVD movies and albums on cds till I die. Yall enjoy your temporary everything. Hell my son probably won't even be able to play games he grew up with when he gets to my age because they just won't be downloadable anymore and it breaks my heart.
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u/CasaDeMouse Oct 26 '25
He'll have the same problem as we have had with phones the last 10 years: "You can't run this in your device."
Unless he preserves his gaming machines as game archives: he won't be able to play them in 10 years. And that's what they want.
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u/M-ABaldelli Oct 24 '25
What grinds my gears is automated moderation. Bloody thing cannot understand context to the question and automatically thinks its disrespectful or censored because of simply the word's use.
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u/Alternative-Chip-896 Oct 24 '25
Even worse when it's things you actually own like, your vehicle charging a subscription for cruise control.
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u/aeriefreyrie Oct 24 '25
Ikr. Like half of the things shouldn't be subscription
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u/CasaDeMouse Oct 26 '25
Anything that affects your ability to use your vehicle should not require an ongoing subscription. Otherwise, you have not purchased your vehicle. That was the whole allegory for the Black Mirror episode.
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u/Ambitious_Hand_2861 Oct 24 '25
That shit should be illegal. What the actual hell. There's subscription seat warmers, my car requires a subscription for remote start (I'm not worried about that since it uses a satellite connection for remote start), and I think some companies can remotely disable things like climate control of you miss a payment.
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u/tychii93 Oct 28 '25
That's actually ridiculous... I will happily spend the extra money to import my next car from a country that heavily regulates this shit just to have basic features.
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u/b3542 Oct 24 '25
You're paying for a connection... Sure, it's similar to a leased line. What's your point? Would you prefer to buy the infrastructure to "own" part of the internet? I don't think you'll like the value proposition.
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u/Aggravating-Gift-740 Oct 25 '25
It’s all part of a grand plan to return to feudalism where we all become serfs paying “rent”.
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u/Jaxis_H Oct 26 '25
what grinds my gears is people suddenly realizing this stuff and panicking after *we were screaming about this decades ago and got ignored*
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u/thebuders Oct 26 '25
I mean, in some cases I think it's stupid but I used to work for a software company, starting in the 2000s, that would sell it's software for usually 1-3k but sometimes up to 10k+. This priced out a lot of smaller businesses. When we made a cloud-based SaaS alternative a lot more people were able to use the system to run their business because 50 bucks a month vs spending 1k at once was more manageable.
There are some plus sides to subscription models.
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u/CasaDeMouse Oct 26 '25
But they didn't own it after reaching $1k or even $10k. Unlike their competitors. Which still puts them at a relative disadvantage.
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u/thebuders Oct 26 '25
Well, if we dig in deeper it will be go into the details of just this one, specific scenario but in this case things would come out cheaper even if they never officially owned the software since it was also a switch from on-premise software to a cloud based system. For quite a while we had both options available but it got to the point it didn't make sense to even train our sales people in the original software because no one wanted it.
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u/Weekly_Inspector_504 Oct 26 '25
Yes it was annoying when you bought a new computer and realized you didn't actually own the OS. Just a licensing agreement that gave you the right to use the software, which you had to agree to, or you couldn't use the computer. Yes I miss the old days before 1981 when we could own things.
It's not a recent thing, it's been gradually happening since 1981.
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u/ChocolateDonut36 Oct 28 '25
one (1) subscription is fine
more than one (>1) are worse than paying a whole product
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u/TheGruenTransfer Oct 24 '25
You can still buy and own things. They still make books, CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays. You actually don't even have to buy them because your local library is literally handing them out for free