‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services

Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

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

*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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ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s why I’m always interested in self-hosting. I have my own Plex and Jellyfin seedbox server for the private trackers I’m in, with a VPS hosting an OpenVPN to make it look like I’m in a different country, just to make it that much safer. It works damn well.

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mister_monster@monero.town ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
My library almost got wiped out when my backup HDD started to fail. Managed to duplicate it onto a new SSD, now I’m fine.

Don’t trust services, trust yourself.

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- floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If the backup HDD was the only copy, it was an archive and not a backup, and you also need backups of the archive.
  
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  - mister_monster@monero.town ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah archive then
    
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