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Tue Dec 17, 2013, 02:40 PM

Egnever (21,506 posts)

25. totally agree

Legislation is sorely lacking on many fronts when it comes to our new digital world. My big concern with that is most of the legislators are digital idiots. The legislation attempts they have made so far have been incredibly hamfisted and often totally counterproductive.

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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
I hope a lawsuit can come from this.	Vashta Nerada	Dec 2013	#1
As I keep explaining to people	Kelvin Mace	Dec 2013	#4
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
I had read of a woman whose books were deleted from her cloud.	dixiegrrrrl	Dec 2013	#19
Seriously..	sendero	Dec 2013	#36
But, but, but if your house burns down, you'll still have your movies!	arcane1	Dec 2013	#54
Consumers only have rights when they exercise them	Kelvin Mace	Dec 2013	#38
Amazon deleted 8 minutes from the series finale of The Office after I purchased it	Shampoobra	Dec 2013	#41
I am shocked by your experience	dixiegrrrrl	Dec 2013	#46
I think the trick is to just use the digital content as a compliment to a physical collection	Shampoobra	Dec 2013	#47
You are one of the few people I have heard say that here.	dixiegrrrrl	Dec 2013	#22
Agreed	Kelvin Mace	Dec 2013	#39
I don't care to slog through Amazon's terms of use, but...	Orrex	Dec 2013	#32
if you can watch it on your computer you can make a copy of it. end of story. nt	msongs	Dec 2013	#2
Except that some courts have interpreted that to violate	Kelvin Mace	Dec 2013	#5
There is almost no way to enforce those provisions of the DMCA	al bupp	Dec 2013	#16
Exactly. No way I'm going to prison...	seattledo	Dec 2013	#57
This is truly outrageous	Sanity Claws	Dec 2013	#3
if you buy something, then give someone else exclusive possession of it...	mike_c	Dec 2013	#6
I guess the pulling	sharp_stick	Dec 2013	#7
of course it was	Egnever	Dec 2013	#23
Note: what Amazon says in that article, and what customers say	dixiegrrrrl	Dec 2013	#24
The cloud concept is just fine for many things. It is needing more control	Pretzel_Warrior	Dec 2013	#8
An Addendum To My Previous Reply	sharp_stick	Dec 2013	#9
Property/ownership isn't a real thing,	ZombieHorde	Dec 2013	#10
Not "influence" but power.	hunter	Dec 2013	#18
What's the difference?	ZombieHorde	Dec 2013	#26
If there's a movie I want, I buy it outright on DVD.	hobbit709	Dec 2013	#11
What is this DVD you speak of?	JCMach1	Dec 2013	#12
I won't buy stuff any other way.	loudsue	Dec 2013	#20
Same reason I buy books	hobbit709	Dec 2013	#21
CD's and DVDs are volatile... not as bad as a cassette tape, but bad over time	JCMach1	Dec 2013	#42
Everything is volatile. Something can screw up magnetic media of any type.	hobbit709	Dec 2013	#44
+1	MadrasT	Dec 2013	#15
From a website called Torrent Freak?	el_bryanto	Dec 2013	#13
Heh,	progressoid	Dec 2013	#29
Despite the silly name	SwankyXomb	Dec 2013	#34
It's not a matter of a silly name - torrents are regularly used to steal copy written work nt	el_bryanto	Dec 2013	#35
So is HTTP, FTP, Newsgroups, etc.	Humanist_Activist	Dec 2013	#50
Great example of needed regulation	FreeJoe	Dec 2013	#17
totally agree	Egnever	Dec 2013	#25
This is why...	FreeJoe	Dec 2013	#28
That is why the big push to streaming	dixiegrrrrl	Dec 2013	#30
There's a reason it's called a "cloud." Ephemeral; impossible to grasp.	WinkyDink	Dec 2013	#31
"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
Well technically, you don't own movies or music after you buy it.	Glassunion	Dec 2013	#40
This is an issue with all digital media -- including e-books, kindle, etc. You don't really "own"	El_Johns	Dec 2013	#43
My family was wondering why the old Monk series we purchased is now "expiring".	mmonk	Dec 2013	#45
But, but, but, stealing from the artists!	Egalitarian Thug	Dec 2013	#48
+1.	jsr	Dec 2013	#49
I don't buy anything that I can't download onto my local computer and use, DRM-free, the...	Humanist_Activist	Dec 2013	#51
The Cloud can BITE ME!	arcane1	Dec 2013	#52
Protest the digital revolution! Buy Physical!	bobclark86	Dec 2013	#55
I tried Amazon free for a month	Politicalboi	Dec 2013	#56

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