This is why @pluralistic is always preaching about #DRM-free digital media and software. Sony is deleting over 500 movies customers paid for through the PlayStation Store because they don’t want to renew their license with Studio Canal. #enshittification
The worst DRM experience that I've had was with ITunes. I was an early adopter and had purchased tons of music with DRM. When Apple finally switched, I was told that it would cost me $500 to convert my library. Haven't purchased DRM'd since, and I've kept anything important to me in text files. It's not just that proprietary formats are wrong from a political perspective -- you're also very likely to outlive them.
Did they seriously put "PLAY HAS NO LIMITS" right under the announcement that you can no longer play your purchased movies due to the limits of a licensing arrangement?
@janeishly They have a funny definition of "purchased".
I recall Cory Doctorow talking about how Amazon treats ebooks as a sale for lowering the tax they owe, but as a lease in order to reduce what they have to pay authors.
You never "bought" anything, or you'd still have it. I learned that early and painfully when DRM-Free Fictionwise was bought by Amazon, and all my books disappeared. Now I buy DRM-free, or crack the copy protection so I *actually* own the book.
@agreeable_landfall @janeishly You don't own anything and you can't even download the content you rented outside of the official app without "circumvention of copyright protection" which is a crime worse than piracy itself.
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This was in 2023, but with Discovery content.
Buy the blu-ray, people.
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in reply to Chris Oliver • • •@janeishly They have a funny definition of "purchased".
I recall Cory Doctorow talking about how Amazon treats ebooks as a sale for lowering the tax they owe, but as a lease in order to reduce what they have to pay authors.
You never "bought" anything, or you'd still have it. I learned that early and painfully when DRM-Free Fictionwise was bought by Amazon, and all my books disappeared. Now I buy DRM-free, or crack the copy protection so I *actually* own the book.
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in reply to David Ginn • • •@david It's been happening a lot. Amazon did it with Kindle books etc.
Your purchase should not be linked or stuck in an account, make sure to keep a copy of it offline if you want to keep it.
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