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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]El_Johns
(1,805 posts)43. This is an issue with all digital media -- including e-books, kindle, etc. You don't really "own"
anything. The corporation can take it back, revise it, etc. at nearly any time. Plus you don't have any of the rights of traditional ownership -- loaning the item to someone, selling it, etc.
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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