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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)
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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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[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago

And piracy isn't stealing anyway!

But I still enjoy that phrase.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

Well, not digital piracy. Ye olde piracy absolutely was stealing, plus a medley of other crimes

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm sure some digital piracy involves stealing. Someone has to have taken some floppy disk software from a store and walked out without paying for it, then made pirated copies of that disk

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