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In reply to the discussion: Not everything you buy is actually yours to keep.-Amazon blocks videos already bought by customers. [View all]FreeJoe
(1,039 posts)17. Great example of needed regulation
We need to apply the "first sale doctrine" to consumer software, e-book sales, mp3 sales, etc. I understand that we are not "buying" these things when we get them online; we are "licensing" them. Well that's bullshit. The button says "Buy it now", not "license it now". No one thinks of it as a license.
Here's my proposal. Any time a consumer "buys" (regardless of whether you call it a licence) digital content, they OWN one copy of that content. They can sell it or transfer it. You can offer to buy it back from them, but you can't just take it away. Figure out a way to make that work in your DRM schemes.
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Not everything you buy is actually yours to keep.-Amazon blocks videos already bought by customers. [View all]
dixiegrrrrl
Dec 2013
OP
If I spend $14.99 for a downloaded video, it better damn well be there tomorrow or 50 years from now
Vashta Nerada
Dec 2013
#14
Amazon deleted 8 minutes from the series finale of The Office after I purchased it
Shampoobra
Dec 2013
#41
I think the trick is to just use the digital content as a compliment to a physical collection
Shampoobra
Dec 2013
#47
The cloud concept is just fine for many things. It is needing more control
Pretzel_Warrior
Dec 2013
#8
It's not a matter of a silly name - torrents are regularly used to steal copy written work nt
el_bryanto
Dec 2013
#35
"Regulation" is how this came to be. This is simply the corporate kleptocracy doing some
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#53
That sucks. Give me a disk. Or a thumb drive. Or anything solid that doesn't require
MADem
Dec 2013
#27
Idiots. Just fucking count the online views as ratings for the Disney channel. Done.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2013
#33
Amazon has an "Unbox" player for the PC, where you can download videos you have bought
quinnox
Dec 2013
#37
This is an issue with all digital media -- including e-books, kindle, etc. You don't really "own"
El_Johns
Dec 2013
#43
I don't buy anything that I can't download onto my local computer and use, DRM-free, the...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2013
#51