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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]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
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