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You all remember just a few weeks ago when Sony ripped away a bunch of movies and TV shows people “owned”? This ad is on Amazon. You can’t “own” it on Prime. You can just access it until they lose the license. How can they get away with lying like this?

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[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (19 children)

Nobody with enough money has sued... Yet...

[–] MudMan@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago (12 children)

I mean, you can "buy" stuff in Amazon Prime Video off service. Unlike Netflix or other platforms, they will let you "buy or rent" streaming movies, which is the same as finding the movie on the Amazon storefront and buying the digital copy instead of a physical copy.

Now, does that mean they won't yank it? Not really. A digital license is a license, not a purchase. Is the word "buy" or "own" inaccurate? I'm hoping not, because like the Sony thing showed, platforms are desperate to not have the courts improvise what rights they owe the buyers on digital purchases.

I'm still buying my movies in 4K BluRay, though. And working on ripping all of them for streaming at home, now that I finally have the space.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (5 children)

A digital license is a license, not a purchase.

Stop repeating copyright cartel propaganda.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It’s not digital though. When you bought any physical media you purchased a license to view the content. You never owned the media on the disk cause that is the studios IP.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

You have always owned your individual copy of the media on the disk!

Again, quit falling for the propaganda.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

This is like saying I don’t own my car because it’s the manufacturer’s IP.

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