Unless You Buy The Disc ....

[GURPS]

you never truly OWN IT

Amazon Pulls Access to Purchased Christmas Videos During Christmas


Disney has decided to pull access to several purchased Christmas videos from Amazon during the holiday season, as the movie studio wants its TV-channel to have the content exclusively. Affected customers have seen their videos disappear from their online libraries, showing once again that not everything you buy is actually yours to keep.

muppet-xmasOne of the best ways to deal with online piracy is to make content available legally.

This is common knowledge by now, but copyright holders still believe that exclusivity can earn them more in the long run, even when it hurts legitimate customers.

A good example of this twisted reasoning is Disney’s decision to make certain Christmas videos unavailable on Amazon because they want people to tune in to their TV channel instead. This ban is not limited to new customers and includes those who already purchased the videos.

One of the affected customers of Disney’s restrictive policy is Bill, who informed BoingBoing that the Christmas themed ‘Disney Prep & Landing’ he bought for his kids last year had been pulled from his library.

A Sony exec went so far as to say, during one of the more infamous file sharing trials, Sony wanted the Consumer to RE - purchase the same content over and over and over ....
... if you wanted a different format

so if you bought the White Album in the 1968 if you wanted an 8 Track for your Trans AM ... you bought the 8 track

if you upgrade that store in the late 80's with an in dash cassette deck, same thing ... you purchase the Cassette

now the 90s roll around and CD's are the rage - same deal

now it is 2000 and everyone has an iPod ... you would be buying the Album digitally from iTunes Store - NOT Converting any of the previous mediums to MP3

[leave the quality discussion at the door]

 

[Caution]

Which is why I just use Rhapsody. I am not such a music fan to where I have to own a copy of anything. So Rhapsody let's me keep track of my favorite artists and just download their top 25 or so songs.

In todays world I don't see the need to buy the music as my tastes change I may end up with boxes on CDs I never listen to.

Plus with Rhapsody I can enable multiple devices and my kids make their own playlists as well on there devices.

But, it works for me and I am sure other people look for different features.

 

[my-thyme]

I made a purchase from iTunes once, only because my children had given me a gift card. Will never purchase anything, music or video, from "virtual" sites again.

And my reasoning was stupider than "they might, someday, possibly, take away my access".










I REALLY didn't like not having the artwork that comes with the physical disk.


And yes, I purchased a physical copy of my one and only iTunes purchase after coming to the above conclusion.

 

[Railroad]

Meh, I haven't been much of a Dizzy - I mean, Disney fan since Walt died. And, I buy the CD or DVD if I like something enough to "play it again."

 

[GURPS]

And my reasoning was stupider than "they might, someday, possibly, take away my access".

IMHO iTunes is a bit different that Amazon, where the movies are always store in Amazons cloud

iTunes you download the song to your computer and can back it up to a CD or DVD - stripping out the DRM ...

Amazon you can only 'download' to a capable Kindle device for viewing later on travel

 

[my-thyme]

I think you missed the artwork part....

 

[my-thyme]

I'm currently anxiously awaiting my physical copy of Pentatonix's Christmas album.

 

[GURPS]

I think you missed the artwork part....

I saw that ... I was just pointing out away to 'keep' your iTunes purchases