Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.

Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨szlwzl@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

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We are contacting you regarding a past Prime Video purchase(s). The below content is no longer playable on Prime Video.

In an effort to compensate you for the inconvenience, we have applied a £5.99 Amazon Gift Card to your account. The Gift Card amount is equal to the amount you paid for the Prime Video purchase(s). To apologize for the inconvenience, we’ve also added an Amazon Gift Certificate of £5 to your account. Your Gift Card balance will be automatically applied to your next eligible order. You can view your balance and usage history in Your Account here:

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LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Companies issuing refunds in the form of gift cards is just straight-up insulting

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- ericisshort@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And it may be illegal in some states to not offer the customer an actual refund.
  
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  - Carter@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    £5.99 refund. Quite clearly not in the US.
    
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  - MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Wait a minute, the US doesn’t have a blanket consumer law federally?
    
    This sounds like a pain.
    
    Federally this is against Australian Consumer Law. Didn’t offer the service you paid for? Better believe that’s a refund.
    
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- xtr0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And is that amount of money enough to replace the item that’s been taken away? Like if the DVD were widely available at the same price at the time of the digital purchase, but you got the Amazon “purchase” instead (for convenience?) then what are the odds that you can still get the DVD for that price today?
  
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fubo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Remember, streaming only has a business model as long as it has a better user experience than piracy.

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- Weslee@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I cancelled Netflix and prime and went back to piracy a few months ago, it’s been a nice blast from the past
  
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  - LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    In addition to piracy, I’ve also been checking out DVDs from my local library. It’s kinda fun.
    
    Surprised myself because I half expected I’d miss the convenience of Netflix, but I haven’t missed it even a little.
    
    “Was I a good streaming platform?”
    
    “No.”
    
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  - Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’m about ready to do the same.
    
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  - b3an@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Netflix will also be raising prices soon. Again.
    
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  - MTLion3@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’m just always spooked by viruses and shit.
    
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- dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Paying 0.99 per song was how a better user experience? Music piracy was pretty big till Spotify. No service was even close before.
  
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  - FlounderBasket@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Being able to easily purchase a single song from a reputable source in the comfort of your home instead of going out to physically buy an entire album and then rip it to your computer was a better user experience, yes. Most users are technologically illiterate, and trying to pirate stuff just lead to them getting viruses.
    
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  - KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Because you were guaranteed that what you were downloading was what it said it was, and was high quality, and would have the correct tagging and album art and all of that.
    
    It’s been shown repeatedly that a large part of piracy isn’t about cost, it’s about convenience. It was easier to pay $0.99 and get what you wanted when you wanted it, than download 8 files off of Napster and hope that one of them was actually a decent bitrate and was the song the title said it was.
    
    Back when eMule was a thing, it was super common to spend an entire day downloading a 700MB video file at 5kb/s, only for it to be Fight Club instead of whatever you thought you were downloading. It’s the same thing with music.
    
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  - MamboGator@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    On top of what’s already been said about technological literacy and security, I’d like to add that I WANT to support the artists who make things I like but the companies selling their works tend to ruin the experience by trying to squeeze every dime out of you.
    
    For the last decade or so, digital storefronts have provided a pretty good experience, but it’s starting to get a lot worse as the old companies go public and become beholden to shareholders, or as new companies enter the arena and split up what was once available all in one place.
    
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  - AnonTwo@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If you have the local MP3 file you can do just about anything you want with it. Use it in just about any device. Transfer it anywhere. And never lose it.
    
    I have Mp3s that are over 20-30 years old and have never needed to get them again.
    
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- metaStatic@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  shitty ad-ridden torrent site
  
  let me introduce you to usenet trackers
  
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  - Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That was my first thought too. A seedbox, Sonarr & Radarr and a Usenet site and I’ve got everything I need for $15/month.
    
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- MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Meanwhile *arr got off and Netflix & co. are ad-ridden too.
  
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- Cyv_@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don't even have to torrent, I have like 3 sites I can just go to, search for content on, and stream video from like a shittier netflix. Adblock keeps them relatively sane, and I sometimes have to try different server sources, but otherwise it works fine.
  
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RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If you can’t save it, its not yours. Sail the seas.

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- SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Or buy it on physical media. More and more studios are pulling their disks and it is getting harder to find. If you have a disk, it can never be recalled.
  
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  - RoquetteQueen@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ever since Disney announced they are also going to ban account sharing, I’ve been going to thrift stores and grabbing any DVDs my children like or might like. I’ve gotten quite a few classics so far for less than the cost of one month of Disney+. I almost bought a VCR because the VHS collection at thrift stores here is huge and they are so cheap, but rewinding sucks.
    
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  - Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I haven’t looked into it, but doesn blu ray need some kind of connectivity to manage its cryptography?
    
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  - Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    But it can just stop playing… I have a handful of discs, still in cases, look pristine, no scratches, and yet can’t be read by either my computer or DVD player. No recourse. It’s a separate problem of course, but similar.
    
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  - MaxVoltage@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    technically you dont own the disks either bro have you never read the back of a DvD box
    
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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is a non-story.
  
  “Who knew $EvilCo would fuck me over for a sub-$10 profit?!”
  
  I never stopped stealing media, and I never will.
  
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  - uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You can’t steal media unless you steal the medium.
    
    Copyright infringement is a crime you might commit but by its draconian length, most cases are the public taking back what’s rightfully ours.
    
    Superman II (any version) should be in the public domain.
    
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- TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sucks for online games though…
  
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- stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Unless you can physically hold an offline device containing everything you need to replay it you don’t own it.
  
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  - SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    According to my local (Dutch) laws, I don’t need to own a physical copy. A YouTube purchase is sufficient for me to legally download a copy over p2p, I’m just not allowed to upload it.
    
    We’re still being charged “thuiskopie” taxes on storage devices, so I’m still allowed to make copies for personal use, either via the app I bought it on, or as an MKV found on torrent sites.
    
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- possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Or just buy the disk
  
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- Chailles@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Amazon’s Music service, while it takes some hoops to jump through, actually does let you download music. Though I don’t know if that’s a general policy or on a per music/per artist basis.
  
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  - neshura@bookwormstory.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I get the feeling they’re trying to get rid of that feature, whenever I try to download something there I have to jump through an increasing number of hoops to get the download option to appear.
    
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  - RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    and save outside of their app as a non DRM’ed file because otherwise its extra hoops for the same problem
    
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  - doktorseven@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Everything should allow you to download what you purchased. The fact that the music industry has pushed streaming so goddamn hard is because they’re mad that people can still download MP3s.
    
    And above all of this, let’s not forget that a major negotiating point of the Hollywood strike was getting residuals per stream, something that never existed when people actually had their own media. It’s greed on every single side in that corrupt, hell town and I’m at the point where I don’t even watch TV or movies any more, not only because it all sucks, but because of this bullshit. The greed and the corruption needs to be punished.
    
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- Anamana@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Why is owning sth you might watch once every 10 years so important? I don’t care about it, as long as it isn’t some niche content or stuff I watch every year.
  
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  - RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Because paying actual money for something that can be taken away with the changing of ever shifting IP ownership and steaming rights is a giant waste of money.
    
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hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s easy to scoff at this whole “You will own nothing, and you will be happy” phrase, but it’s really gone too far already.

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- seaQueue@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  We’ve been screaming about it for 20+ years now and no one seems to be listening.
  
  I’m hoping that someone will tie digital ownership rights to a block chain sooner or later and offer me movies, music, games and books that I can actually own and resell - but as publishers are already drinking from the rent-seeking model teat I’m not terribly optimistic about that particular future.
  
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  - SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    block chain
    
    No. Never. Stop asking. Crypto is not a currency and blockchain is a solution in search of a problem.
    
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  - __dev@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Adding blockchain into the mix changes nothing. Whether your digital ownership is stored in their centralized database or a distributed database, they still have control over everything because they’re the ones streaming it to you. They can just as well block your access & block resale.
    
    The only way to actually digitally own something is to have a full DRM-free copy of it (ianal though this still might not be enough to allow resale).
    
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  - Gsus4@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Keep it in your hard drive and carry it with you. Better than a Blockchain.
    
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- FMT99@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I think it makes sense in some areas. For example private ownership of cars is completely unsustainable in the literal sense of the word.
  
  But when it comes to digital goods, clearly it’s all for the profit of the media cartels. There’s no justification.
  
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  - AeroLemming@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Publicly or corporately owned cars are not the solution. A more robust public transportation system is the solution. Busses and trains are so much more efficient than cars.
    
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- uis@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This sounds worse than communism. At least communism said “everyone will own everything”.
  
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LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You don’t own the video file. You own access to their video file, which they also don’t own, they only own the right to distribute it. If their distribution contract ends and doesn’t gets renewed, then they can’t let you access the file. At least they refunded you. This system is one of the issues with the ongoing writers and actors strikes. Amazon can decide to stop making a video available, which cuts all dividends revenues to actors and writers. So having a video available for you to watch costs money to Amazon (or Netflix or Max…) but not enough content makes users unsubscribe, so they ride that thin line for maximized revenue. This means that older movies that aren’t blockbusters get dropped in favor of new content. Now new content doesn’t means good content, remember, it needs to be as cheap as possible. Aaand this is why steaming companies are spiraling down and everything is going to shit. Filmmaking is an art form turned into an industry. But art isn’t about maximized profit, it’s about art first. But you can’t make that art without millions of dollars and that requires the art to take a step back to maximize profit, but not too far back. It’s a really big issue in the film and entertainment industry.

— I’m an IATSE local 600 camera operator.

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- Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They should be refunding in cash though, not store credit.
  
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  - LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Depends on the contract you agreed to with Amazon.
    
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  - Trixie0383@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You are always free to sue with your lawyer to make a more just world as the founding fathers intended… /s
    
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- cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Then they should refund you. Even in the event that’s the case, still makes me not want to risk it.
  
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- veniasilente@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  But you can’t make that art without millions of dollars
  
  I have a used 3DS with a touchscreen and stylus, and a drawing program, and I beg to differ.
  
  You can totally make art for less than ten thousand dollars. Heck, most art within that price bracket is valued objectively better than the “”“art”“” costing more. The problem is not “making art is costly”, it’s that the current schools of media seem to have a curriculum purpose-built to make artist understudies belive that has to be the case.
  
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  - LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    On a side note, I’m playing DS games on my iPhone with Delta emulator and it’s awesome. But still not the point.
    
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  - LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s not the point. We’re talking about filmmaking. Some art project don’t need that much but others do.
    
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- Trixie0383@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I still don’t get how a consumer can’t just pay (fantasy hypothetical world) $10, and what they watch/view is recorded.
  
  Streaming company takes their cut, distributes the rest to content producers proportioned based on what was watched.
  
  Producers take their cut then distribute the rest as residuals.
  
  I lied. I do know that the current contract infrastructure doesn’t allow for this.
  
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  - LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Because of the shareholders take all the benefit without contributing actual work. Just capital. And the same shareholders don’t want to take risks. But you can’t make a movie without money upfront. That is the whole problem.
    
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  - droans@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s what MoviesAnywhere was for. If the provider stops selling the video or goes under, it should still be available there.
    
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KTVX94@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
We’ve taken away this thing you’ve bought, here’s a gift card so you can give us that money back again later.

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- Flambo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  strictly speaking it’s
  
  here’s a gift card so ~~you can give us that money back again~~ we can keep your money but give you something for free later.
  
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- DeliBelly@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s more like: we took it away and gave you a ~100% ROI by adding a $5 gift card to your “refund”. Still sucks though.
  
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- Arethusa@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Gift cards and store credit = we keep your money.
  
  The reality is that they didn’t give the customer back anything. It’s the usual corporate sales speak.
  
  “50% off” and “Save $10” aren’t actually real either. $10 doesn’t appear in customer’s accounts after a purchase and customers often have no concept of what the item original cost before it was marked up and brought to market by the the corporation. It’s sales and marketing psychological games that many people can’t see through. $9.99/$59.99 is cheaper than $10.00/$60.00 true and people somehow feel better buying the former versus the latter as though that penny isn’t only a penny and they didn’t give the corporation the 99.99% of the money they wanted
  
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- w2tpmf@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s fine. Always need to purchase more storage devices.
  
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uis@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Gift card. GIFT CARD! Those bastards “refund” with gift card instead of actual money! I hope EU will haunt their asses. Big corpro hunting season is open.

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- gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Nope, even in EU the only option is a gift card (or a coupon) if you need to reinburse someone if more that a certain time is passed (usually about a week). There are fiscal reasons to this.
  
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redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
When brain-computer interface finally became reality, right holders and streaming companies will require you to hook in and let them wipe the memory of you watching the movie whenever they cancel your “purchase” like this.

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- FLP22012005@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’d love to watch some movies for the first time again.
  
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- Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There are quite a few things I’d love to experience for the first time again.
  
  I don’t buy digital copies when I have a choice. Easy for movies but Steam kinda fucked that up for games. I was never more disappointed than the time I bought a game box and all it contained was a code to get a digital copy. Haven’t had a problem with Steam… yet. It’s only a matter of time though.
  
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- TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  From DRM-equipped browsers to DRM-equipped brains. Now, that’s progress…
  
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- HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I actually look forward to parties where people delete their memory of certain media, in order to enjoy it for the first time, maybe it’s not even delete but suppress the memory so that people can compare their first first time to their second first time.
  
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phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Mofos

Return me ALL my money for that, fuck your girftcard coupon shit! That is the least you can do and still doesn’t change the fact that I can’t buy to own anything there, so why the fuck would I?

Jellyfin and torrents for the win!

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- brax@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Gift cards and store credit are such a kick to the balls. Unless they let you buy shit AT COST then they’re literally not out anything.
  
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Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sometimes I think I made the right decision to just get a huge harddrive and download all my entertainment movies, music, games, books. I saw this coming a mile away a decade ago. The only thing that will really hurt me is if/when Steam inevitably goes full corporate cucks and starts going hard on the DRM locking down my library.

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tabular@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They removed books from your Kindle in the past. Who could have seen this comming?

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jayrodtheoldbod@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Every day on the internet, a lucky 10,000 get to learn “common knowledge” for the very first time.

Like everyone said 50 times, yar har be pirate, all that.

Or, buy hard copy, which is refusing to completely die because of this shit, right here.

BUT, you have to make sure the data is on the hard copy and that you can access the data (play the songs, watch the movie, etc) WITHOUT internet access, that is you have to make sure the hard copy of the media is really on the damn disc, and it’s not just a glorified access key to media that will then be streamed from their servers they control. If it is then do not pay for it.

This is honestly why vinyl is still a thing, once you rip things back out of the digital realm it gets a lot harder for them to pull bullshit, they pretty much have to put the songs on the wax if they want your $40, and they do, oh boy they do they want that money bad.

Piracy is always a bigger pain in the ass than internet techies act like. No, I don’t want to buy a Plex server and learn how to use it and learn how to make my own VPN and make sure the VPN doesn’t just report my activity to 7 Eyes or whatever that things called and and and and, and results like “my movie got unbought” are also unacceptable.

Yes, we know, there are “special” websites that you can just surf to and it’s like a janky Netflix that “just works” so long as you already know the name of the thing you intend to watch, otherwise it’s just a blank search bar. Also, you cannot tell other people about the website or the website gets taken down. Nothing is more useful than a website that you absolutely can’t tell people about, wow, what a problem solver that is.

“I want to watch a movie” is a very “This activity must offer zero friction, I will only accept push button get movie” kind of activity so, yeah. “Be pirate” is not that useful, it’s just the internet’s go-to answer, they always speak loudly for the tiny minority in this place.

What we’re actually doing is drastically limiting our spending on any of this type of thing, and never, ever pay money to “own” something digital. That era is over. It sucks, but it’s yet another shitty thing that would take bullets to change, and since it’s not worth bullets it’s not changing.

Honestly I doesn’t even take bullets but if you’re going to build the kind of political movement it would take to create change then all that work would be absolutely wasted on this problem while everyone eyerolls at you like you’re stupid and worthless for caring so yeah, it’s not changing.

So yeah, do not pay for digital ownership of any kind, ever. It’s only ever a lease with one-sided terms, at best. Amazon lost the contractual right to provide that movie, so you lost the right to watch it, and “buying” it meant buying a license to watch it on their terms, the end. Don’t pay for it.

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brax@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Companies LOVE punishing their customers while the pirates sail on without trouble

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Arethusa@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Wow. This is why owning DVDs is better. And if you can’t buy, downloading via torrents. Imagine these bastards rolling up to your home and reclaiming a movie you physically purchased. We gave them too much power. Time to withdraw it. Convenience is not worth this shit. Get uncomfortable and get your entertainment away from these streamers who don’t give customers what they paid for.

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exu@feditown.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I mean yeah, that sucks, but them refunding you is absolutely the right move. I don’t think they did that the last times Amazon removed something from their catalogue.

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torpak@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The only thing that surprises me is that anyone is surprised by this. If you buy a physical book from anywhere, you own it. If you “buy” the rigth to play a movie (or read a book) from amazon, you own nothing. Usually they don’t show that so clearly but that’s the reality.

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protovack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
well, at least they paid you back for it. that’s actually quite respectable of them. and if they didn’t, it would have been a class action lawsuit, so kind of a moot point all around. You got your money back. I recommend using it to obtain several tiers of backup hard drives and make sure you have two physical copies of every piece of media you feel is not replaceable. Because some day, you won’t be able to replace it.

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echo64@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah that’ll happen for anything streamed and licensed.

If you want to own something, you need to own it physically. Buy an actual disk. People won’t and I’ll be surprised if they are still making blurays at all in ten years but that’s the only way you can actually buy media now.

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Neirin_D@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If companies won’t sell you a DRM-free copy of media, just pirate it. It’s the only way to actually own it.

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gapbetweenus@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Digital goods are just not physical goods, you don’t really own them - which also mean you can’t really steal them.

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kamenLady@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Before YouTube Music, I purchased quite a lot of albums on Google Play Music. Paying normal CD prices, no renting.

My Google Play Music library consisted of 60% uploaded and 40% purchased music.

After my Music Library migration to YouTube was done ( this sentence alone, is enough doom and sorrow for every music lover ), my uploaded music was merged with my purchases and both were put under quarantine within the “uploads” tab.

No way to recognize purchases or even the possibility of downloading any of my uploaded or purchased music.

The money I paid for the music?

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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Is this a shock? If you want to own your media you need to have the raw video. This can be though getting DRM-free media or buying DVDs and blurays. (Be careful of bluray has they are infected with DRM)

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parsiuk@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You know where Amazon (and any other company for that matter) can’t pull content from? My Jellyfin instance. Yo-ho-ho!

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beefcat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
blu-rays are often as cheap or cheaper than “digital copies”, and ripping them is pretty trivial these days thanks to makemkv.

the best part is, uncle jeff cannot legally break into your house and take back the disc just because of some petty rights issue.

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netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Just wanted to mention that torrentgalaxy.to, rutracker.org, 1337x.to and therarbg.com won’t ever remove anything from your library.

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tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Oh, are we acting surprised because we forgot all the people that got screwed exactly like this on Kindle books in 2009?

Welcome to digital media. If you can’t play it without some company’s say do, you don’t own it.

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ilovesatan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Being a pirate is alright to be

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TedJ70@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Welcome to the Pay Per View information economy. Amazon, and others, have been pulling this shit for years.

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JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I hate this but refunding with a little extra seems fair enough. Would be better if you had the option to refund to your card though.

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mvilain@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s been well documented that Amazon does this with eBooks all the time. A publisher pulled a copy of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE from Amazon over a contract dispute in the earlier days of the Kindle. So Amazon reached out and delete that copy from all Amazon customers who bought it through the Amazon Store.

Students who were annotating it for class lost all their notes. Amazon refunded the cost of the eBook. But those notes are toast.

It’s what prompts me to copy non-DRM’ed files to my Kindle and read them without Amazon having a record of purchase. It won’t stop them from logging in remotely and wiping the device, but I have backups and programs to convert them to non-Kindle format for another eReader.

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