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Piracy at it again.
This is not piracy. Piracy is duplicating content, this is theft. From what I was told by mafiaa, this should be punished harshly.
The word "piracy" is only applicable to sketchy businesses who profit off someone else's work without permission.
> you will no longer be able to watch any of your previously purchased Discovery content and the content will be removed Content you purchased. Their wording. Not content you rented, not license you paid for. They are effectively stealing the content you purchased.
Saved [0], for whatever it's worth.
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They don't just fuck users, they fuck their employees as well. How many writers' strikes have there been now? How much of an open secret was Weinstein raping and abusing actresses? I hope the whole system dies, and maybe something better will take its place. I'm sure I won't miss Guardians of the Galaxy XXIV.
> I'm sure I won't miss Guardians of the Galaxy XXIV. Is this because you thought GotG 1-3 were bad and they are just going to keep making more bad stuff, or because you thought GotG 1-3 were good but have pretty much wrapped up the story of those characters so it is now time to stop, or something else?
It's a much wider criticism. Not a specific series... or even media.
There are perverse incentives between producer, actor, and consumer in entertainment and so many other things.
In this light, I'd argue piracy is moral by not providing support to a corrupt system. Or at least serves as a means to prevent such a state
This is why iTunes Movies are the only place I'll buy things - not because this won't ever happen, but because I can download and continue to play those movies offline so long as iTunes software continues existing.
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If it lives on their servers you never really owned it.
Then selling it was fraud, surely. I'm not a lawyer, but I've never understood how these online storefronts haven't been sued out of existence for claiming that you can "buy" something when they clearly mean something more akin to "leasing access to it until they feel like it".
Piracy is morally justifiable if this is the alternative.
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That's fun... if you connect your DVD player to the internet.
No, they can ship updates on new disks and the player will read the code when it reads the movie.
That's literally evil.
I’ve noticed something strange on my iTunes account recently - missing tv shows I absolutely remember buying at one point, but nowhere to be seen now. One I remember is “Adventure Time”. Just now searched my email and found receipts from iTunes Store for “Adventure Time Vol 1” dated 22 Nov 2013. I see receipts for the other seasons of the show too, they were not rentals as far as I’m aware. Then sometime in last few…
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It's not, WTH are you on about. My old Blu-Rays, will still play in my old Blu-Ray player 50 years from now. Those keys are burned in the DVD and in the player's chip and can't be remotely revoked because they run on physics, not magic.
That's assuming you only ever run old Blu-Rays on that player. Blu-Ray has a thing called BD+ on it, which lets content companies run arbitrary native code on your player (among other things). It also lets you update your player's key revocation list for HDCP. So either of these mechanisms could be used to render your old purchased content unplayable.