Somewhat related, I'm confused every time iOS says "Processing Payment" when I download a free app.
Because it is not free, it is an unpaid lease.
Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
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Re: Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
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This is why supporting DRM-free stores is important (e.g. Bandcamp for music and GOG for games).
Shame GOG don't care about your privacy. When they published a profile page for you without asking first, leaking your personal data and what games you owned to anyone you had friended before, I contacted them and they just straight up said they didn't think it was a problem. No DRM is a marketing gimmick for them, they don't actually care about the privacy of their customers.
CD Projekt Red also sell Windows exclusive software (Witcher 3, Cyberpunk, etc.), which, one can argue, is also a form of DRM.
Re: Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is why supporting DRM-free stores is important (e.g. Bandcamp for music and GOG for games).
Shame GOG don't care about your privacy. When they published a profile page for you without asking first, leaking your personal data and what games you owned to anyone you had friended before, I contacted them and they just straight up said they didn't think it was a problem. No DRM is a marketing gimmick for them, they don't actually care about the privacy of their customers.
Probably not in the beginning, but once you have a successful model going it's inevitable that the sociopaths/careerists invade and take over. It's unnatural and unstable for a company to believe in anything but accumulation.
Re: Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
#144Physical media lets you have privacy without logging when you watch media, what media you consume, how many times you consume it, or how long you consume it. You can enjoy it offline, and in 20 years long after the studio that licensed it is gone. You can give it to a friend or loan it out. Or sell it. It is yours. Meanwhile DRM media we pay full price for, or if the content is only available via streaming we pay for…
> Physical media lets you have privacy without logging when you watch media Don't some blu ray players try to connect to the internet whenever you watch a disc? I think my PS3 used to do that.
You have identified the reason my physical media players and TVs don't get connected to the internet.
Re: Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
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"...for the time being you may continue to re-download content you have purchased or transfer that content from a Wii system to a Wii U system. Be aware that these features will eventually end at a future date." https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/... It happened recently so there is a grace period to download final copies of a game, but if your console dies and you want to transfer games to a…
> if your console dies and you want to transfer games to another unit you get off eBay in a few years, you are SOL. Again, this is not functionally different than your cartridge dying. If your NES cartridge dies, you can replace it with a second-hand copy, or you're SOL. The same. You're saying that there's a consumer benefit to a console-cartridge system being modular (such that either module can be replaced when de…
For cartridge roms and pressed CDs the failure rate is much, much lower than the console and the expected life span much longer. Not to mention it's often possible to back those mediums up and play the backups or original media on another console.
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Imagine a bank marketing itself as "No reasonable consumer would believe that their deposits will remain in the bank indefinitely" This is a really awe-inspiring, a complete rejection of the concept of ownership
This is already reality. Paypal shuts down inactive accounts. (And guess what they do with the positive balance.)
PayPal isn't a bank. They don't have the same obligations or protection. When a bank closes your account, they mail you a check with the balance, and that balance is insured up to $250,000. I don't know how it works in other countries, but they probably have something like the FDIC.
Re: Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
#147Physical media lets you have privacy without logging when you watch media, what media you consume, how many times you consume it, or how long you consume it. You can enjoy it offline, and in 20 years long after the studio that licensed it is gone. You can give it to a friend or loan it out. Or sell it. It is yours. Meanwhile DRM media we pay full price for, or if the content is only available via streaming we pay for…
This is why supporting DRM-free stores is important (e.g. Bandcamp for music and GOG for games).
iTunes is also a DRM-free music store. (Assuming you buy and aren’t using Apple Music.)
Re: Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
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Yeeeesssss.....buuuuut.... Only for certain books. Book DRM has been a nightmare. Tying a book to certain readers is an automatic showstopper for a lot of folks (like me). I recently bounced a tech book I purchased, because I had to download their crappy hybrid app to read the book. The same people that sold it to me, used to sell unlocked reflowable EPUBs (my preferred format), or watermarked PDFs (I have no problem…
Adding for people who want sources: There are quite a few places especially technical ones. However, many major pulishers don't offer them, so you then have the choice of DRM stripping, searching for illegitimate copies or giving up/in and using a DRM copy somehow. https://www.ebooks.com/en-nl/drm-free/ https://leanpub.com/ https://www.libreture.com/bookshops/ Note places like ebooks.com don't sell exclusively DRM fr…
I'd add Lulu to that list.
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DMCA is no longer enforced on media where the device needed to play it is no longer sold. You can go get almost any Super Nintendo ROM on archive.org right now, legally. I hope to see this foothold extended.
Do you have chapter and verse for this? It doesn't sound right to me but I don't know for sure.
https://www.copyright.gov/1201/docs/librarian_statement_01.h...
There is an explicit exemption for:
"Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access."
AKA old console roms. https://archive.org has piles now unchallenged for years as a result.
Re: Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
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This is why supporting DRM-free stores is important (e.g. Bandcamp for music and GOG for games).
iTunes is also a DRM-free music store. (Assuming you buy and aren’t using Apple Music.)
I wonder if we'd have gotten there without Jobs. It seems it happened in a moment of time when there was still a lot of piracy going on so there was a big push to make purchased digital music as good as/better than pirated music. Maybe today there would be a general feeling that DRM-free would be the only incentive for people to buy music given that streaming predominates, so why not, but I'm not sure.