>>160559I'm going to keep responding to you because OMFG dude. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're still in high school or something and have no life experience. I'm just trying to educate guys like you because this is important shit that you need to understand to avoid being taken advantage of.
As I keep saying, this is about understanding risk, recognizing what you do and don't have control over. I assumed this would imply that the consumer is ultimately responsible for how they spend their money, to rely on their own "due diligence." This is not a new concept.
Imagine you're looking to buy a used car. If you take the seller's word that the car is perfect and neglect to inspect it yourself, but then it breaks down a week later, guess what? You're a fool who got taken advantage of. Shit like this happens all the time and in many cases you're SOL. You can insist all you want that everybody play fair, but unfortunately that's not the case. Does it really surprise and alarm you that such treacherous people roam the earth? What kind of cotton candy world do you live in? Why do you think lawyers exist??
I'm not advocating for "rolling the dice" or allowing bad behavior. I'm advocating for due diligence, taking your emotions out of the equation. When buying things online you should look at reviews of the seller, check what recourse options there are if you get ripped off. Before subscribing to a streaming service you look up reviews on it, read the ToS, investigate what titles they have, etc. Before hiring somebody to remodel your kitchen you should look up their reputation, seek references, and actually meet them. Before subscribing to an OF model you should know their reputation, read the OF ToS, etc etc...
What you don't do is let your emotions get involved. This is the mistake you're making; don't take it as an insult, EVERYBODY makes this mistake at some point. You should absolutely give a fuck about the fine print in the ToS. The netflix analogy works, and I'll repeat: you have no more of a relationship with netflix than you do an OF model. I'm not going to pore over the ToS of every streaming service out there, but I absolutely bet that they withhold the right to remove any title at any time without notice. They don't do this, especially not en masse, because that would obviously upset people and hurt their business. So clearly if the terms of that kind of subscription-based business model makes you wary, then subscribing to an OF model is an even bigger gamble. They are under no obligation to make more content or give a fuck at all. OF themselves warn you of this! This is the porn industry we're talking about here. Expecting to have any kind of emotional need met from it is just sad. I don't know if I can spell all of this out any clearer.
