https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1DvOF-giJQ
Louis Rossmann: Piracy is MORALLY JUSTIFIED after Telstra Locked Customer Purchases Behind New Hardware
https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/14/my-whole-library-is-wiped-out-what-it-means-to-own-movies-and-tv-in-the-age-of-streaming-services
‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
Ownership rights are buried in the fine print and downloading or buying physical copies may be the only ways to keep your favourites
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.
This isn’t simply a case of Netflix removing Friends from the service when a content agreement runs out. These were films and shows people had bought with the expectation they could watch them whenever they wanted – indefinitely.
Vicki Russell posted on X last week saying she was being asked by Telstra to pay $200 for Fetch to retain access to what she said was $2,500-worth of purchases.
“Years and years of purchasing movies and my whole library is just wiped out. What a shitty thing to do,” she posted.
She later said Telstra had contacted her and offered a free Fetch box, which she acknowledged was a “reasonable resolution”.
A spokesperson for Telstra said it was a rights issue, which meant customers had to move to a similar content service to keep accessing the content. Customers had not been able to make new purchases since the end of September last year, the spokesperson said, with customers being migrated to Fetch since December.
“We’ve partnered with Fetch as our new entertainment platform and the vast majority of movies or shows customers have bought on their Telstra TV Box Office can be migrated across,” the spokesperson said.
Content ‘may become unavailable’
In the age of VHS, DVDs and Blu-ray, when someone bought a movie from a store, it was theirs for as long as it was playable. And even in the digital era before streaming, people could – and generally still can – buy files of movies, TV shows and music. Barring the digital rights management locks some companies placed on those files, you could generally continue to play them for as long as you had a player that could read them.
Now firmly in the streaming age, ownership is largely subject to the terms and conditions people often do not read, a lecturer in computing and information systems at Melbourne University, Shaanan Cohney, said.
“Whenever you click to purchase or rent content online, there’s always a box somewhere saying terms and conditions apply – just like with everything else you do online.
“It is not reasonable to expect consumers to read these terms and conditions [but] in the case of Telstra TV box office, they had a whole section on how they were able to withdraw content.”
Such provisions are fairly standard among tech companies. Customers can rent or buy films via Amazon Prime, and the company’s terms of service states the content “will generally continue to be available to you for download or streaming … but may become unavailable … Amazon will not be liable to you”.
Apple’s iTunes – which allows users to download files they have bought – has a similar clause and says while the content is unlikely to become unavailable, people should “ensure your ability to continue enjoying content” by downloading all purchases to a device and backing up.
In March, game developer Ubisoft outraged hardcore fans of the 10-year-old online racing game The Crew when it shut down access to customers who had paid for the game and continued to play it. Ubisoft justified its move, saying it would allow the company to focus resources on newer or more popular titles.
The avenues of appeal are relatively limited. A spokesperson for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) told Guardian Australia: “Businesses should not mislead consumers about their rights under Australian consumer law when goods and services are offered under a licensing arrangement.”
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bonus:
Louis Rossmann: Youtube AI censorship about non-existent "medical disinformation"
kek
>buying air
*renting air
>you really cant access any feed less you login
>any anons able to access Bill Binney's twatter feed without logging in?
use alternative twatter
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At some point in the future people will ask: How did we do it without space?
>the government is cray cry
Trust Nazis working at the NASA
>wait, what
Trust Masons working at the NASA
>wait, what
Trust snek
Trust the styled hair
Trust quick cuts
>we can't show a 2 minute shower scene without quick cuts, very weird
it's not just a religion, it's for really dumb people.
How often did I hear
>but vaccines can't cause neurological problems, so autism is impossible to be caused by vaccines!!!
and then I go, well what about that swine flu vaccine from 2009?
>well uhh that one, yeah, but that's the only one that can cause neurological issues
and then you go further back and figure out that Jenner, the first quack that did the vaccine bullshit, actually caused the very first neurologically damaged vaccine-victim.
but that's not in school books, because…
The school books only say that Jenner was a "genius". Holy fuck.
they are flat out stupid.
it's a religion of liars and stupid people.