2. So you are pro-Spotify but anti-Steam? All the arguments you gave above against Steam apply to Spotify as well.
Sounds to me you are trying to justify your decision to pirate to yourself.
Per first-sale doctrine, if a license was included with the original medium, then it's irrevocably transferrable to subsequent buyers, without manufacturer being able to sever it, no?
Which is why SaaS and "cloud features" did all they could to danced around and obscure this.
Steam is better value for me over more than a couple of months, and so was eMusic until Sony ruined it.
Is the argument that Steam is worse than Spotify because a subset of games have got built in self destruct, while Spotify only requires ongoing rent to access that 99¢ song?
I think the self destruct is bad, and requiring 3rd party logins for single player games should not be allowed.
The platform itself will remove everything from you unless you keep paying Taylor Swift every month, and the artists you actually listen to probably don't get anything, unless you only listen to top ten charting songs.