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I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video]

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354 points qingcharles | 5 comments | 21 Apr 25 02:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.236s | source
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mjevans ◴[21 Apr 25 04:53 UTC] No.43748591[source]▶
Not watching a video, but how is it legal for any company to "sell" something like this? (The video might explain that, but that's my focus of what I care about out of the situation.)
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sneak ◴[21 Apr 25 04:57 UTC] No.43748603[source]▶
You’re free to not buy it, that’s why. This video is the market working as intended.
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1. yoyohello13 ◴[21 Apr 25 05:11 UTC] No.43748661[source]▶
The problem with letting “the market” decide things like this is it requires first that someone gets hurt. Then they need to wage and information campaign against said company. Or we can just have a law that says this is bad and be done with it.
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2. sneak ◴[21 Apr 25 05:27 UTC] No.43748723[source]▶
Unchecked lawmaking hurts a lot more people than bad consumer products.

We have a good system, and this video shows it functions well.

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3. ryandrake ◴[21 Apr 25 05:38 UTC] No.43748763[source]▶
We have a terrible system, built around power disparity, dishonesty, unequal and difficult access to remedies for dishonesty, and this obsession with the idea that only individuals should act individually, and not collectively as a governing body, to prevent and punish harms.
4. GavinMcG ◴[21 Apr 25 06:59 UTC] No.43749098[source]▶
Have you read enough history to know what life was like before we got rid of child labor, established weekends as a norm, regulated food products, etc.? Or do you assume that the free market provides those things because you’ve only lived in an age where you can take them for granted?
5. yoyohello13 ◴[21 Apr 25 14:49 UTC] No.43752632[source]▶
Comments like these and knowing people like you are in charge make me fear for the future.

Companies, unchecked, will kill as many people as they can to make more profit. History proves this, it’s not a hypothetical. Laws are the only lever we have to keep profit incentive aligned with the common good.