If you don’t retain some kind of actual ownership, they will not be allowed to use terms like “buy” or “purchase” on the store page button. I hope there aren’t huge holes in this that allow bad actors to get around it, but I certainly loathe the fact that there’s no real way to buy a movie or TV show digitally. Not really.
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it
DRM violates this principle. Atreides forever
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Next: make it so games can’t suddenly lose their music license. This is so incredible annoying. I know it’s depending on what the publishers negotiated, but it shouldn’t be possible to suddenly patch out soundtracks because of a license expire.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’d never even heard of this before. Wtf
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Seriously. If I bought GTA before those licenses expired, my download should always have them, even if newer ones do not (which, to be clear, still sucks that that’s acceptable).
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
require games to buy perpetual licenses for the music?
Adalast@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Other way around. Require sales of licenses to games to be perpetual. The way you phrased it means that the license holders can charge way more.