When did selling a product instead of a subscription become a bad business model?

Edit: I have a lot of trouble believing that a product that could theoretically have value to every person on the planet for current and every future generations, that can’t be passed along used or resold, couldn’t develop a successful sustainable business model.

Do you have a source we can reference for that particular bit of shitbaggery?

Edit: congressional report on the shit bags in question:

https://www.classaction.org/media/hartz-v-taxact-inc-congressional-report.pdf

Little of both

Thank you, they’ve been ruining search results since the day SEO was coined.

For most people the consequences of this action will be too far away to understand the connection, so it’s a pretty good target for the US Republican party.

Whoa there. This was a hard one not to down vote, well done.