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‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be able to access the films and TV shows they had bought. *

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[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 173 points 6 months ago

Piracy is only illegal because we made it so. We can change that.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 72 points 6 months ago

I think what we should do is to have better non-piracy ways of owning things instead of "making piracy legal" (what does that even mean?)

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

what does that even mean?

Something like this: https://www.eff.org/pages/better-way-forward-voluntary-collective-licensing-music-file-sharing

[-] localme@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

Thanks for sharing! I wish they had the date of publishing listed for this article. I get the feeling it was written 15 years ago, well before streaming music services existed. Would love to see them update this based on the latest technologies and services.

[-] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 6 points 6 months ago

Looking into the metadata of the included PDF version reveals that it's from 2004, so even a bit older than that.

[-] localme@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Wow good find using the pdf metadata!

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

The EFF’s concept was from the Napster days, but I think this was written later on.

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