I really don't care if the law states I can or cannot. I will get my use from the service that I pay for. Same thing with the game example, if I have paid for a game, and then the service I purchased it from prevents me playing it, I will get it by an alternate method.
I bought the ticket on basis I would get a pleasurable experience viewing said film at the cinema I bought it from, if for whatever reason their end of the deal cannot be completed and they refuse to reimburse my money, then like i stated, i'll use whatever method necessary to acquire it. They production company won't lose or gain any more money from me by doing so.
Then it's on the cinemas head to provide a better service so such incidents don't occur.
Disguised bow out? Not at all. I thought you were done and just giving petty 1 liners back to me. Since that's not the case we may continue. I do love the "You lose", though, it's not quite over yet, you've honed in on my poorer example which I typed while at work, and I do admit, it is a poor example. The game example is still just as valid, if not more-so, so lets focus on this shall we? You may still reply to the cinema example, but it's a bit of a circular argument which won't go anywhere so it feels a little pointless.
With a game service you pay for a CD-Key, regardless of what happens, that CD-key is now yours, it's bound to your account and cannot ever be given to anyone else. With EA's origin, they can after a certain period of time completely block your access to this game that you have paid for. For what reason? Well there is no real reason. Before they had another stipulation that after 6 months, you couldn't re-download your game again from the download manager. What option is there left? That CD key is still yours, you don't have a disk to install it and there's no other way to get the client. Oh that's right, torrents. But torrents are bad, right? They're illegal, so you shouldn't be able to play that game, sitting on your account unless you go and purchase it again just for the disk. That's insanity.
Same with Steam, you just bought "The witcher 2" on Steam, it's your only game on there, but Steam has just closed your account for no reason what-so-ever, you can't access your CD-Key, you can't access the download. Torrenting it is your only option, you've paid the developer for their game, yet you can't use it because of a discrepancy with the service you purchased it through. Is it theft to take the game off a torrent to play it? I mean you just bought it yesterday and for no reason at all you can't access it. By your logic, it is theft, and by a lot of others logic it's theft too. But by my logic, I am taking what I paid for. I paid for a game, and the service cannot provide me with this game, so I will get it by whatever means that I have to.
