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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Correct. The right course of action would be to backtrack this per download idea completely, fire the person who thought of this, and add a clause on their ToS that such bullshit will never happen again, and that of they broke that agreement, they will refund everyone affected by it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

fire the ~~person who thought of this~~ CEO