I know. That’s why we need a change in the law to equalise the ownership of physical and digital media so consumers can own not license the digital content they purchase.
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Apple Hit With $5 Billion Class Action Lawsuit Over eBooks Availability
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Modern TOS agreements are purposely designed to be complicated with the goal of concealing policies or practices disclosed in the TOS by encouraging the end user to skip to the "I Agree" box instead of wasting half an hour trying and failing to comprehend the writing. The practice is unethical and should, at the very least, be questioned if not challenged.
Meta's user agreement is 5,300 words and takes up 11 pages in PDF form. While it does seem more simply worded than most, 5,300 words is excessive: even a strong reader would need 20 minutes.
You will never own the content you purchase. You will only ever license it. When you buy a physical book you do not own the story/narrative written in it, you simply own a license to read it. The physical book is just the mechanism by which that license is being delivered.
What the physical item does prevent is the license from easily being revoked.
This is the same as digital content IF you download the file the content is stored in and save it somewhere that YOU control. Even if the license is revoked you still have the file containing the licensed material for you to use/enjoy.
Apple are just a license reseller. They don’t have the right to store or distribute the licensed content if there is no agreement in place for them to do so. This is why you MUST download the digital content onto your own computer if you want to be able to keep it forever.
Don't think this lawsuit will be successful especially since the terms and conditions mention the same. Unfortunately with any digital purchase or movie rental or anything of that sort, the customer is only purchasing the right to access as long as the service provider has rights to the content.
How do you define stealing?
Is it taking something that you don't own and haven't paid for without permission when you know you shouldn't have it or is it depriving A.N.Other of something they have?
So I am being told to download a copy and back it up. Thus creating another copy. So I am allowed to have minimum of two copies. Thats more than fair in my opinion.
So I buy a book, I loose it. Do I have the right to go to the bookshop and request another book ?
What kind of weird sorcery is this lawsuit about. Yes I will most probably loose things I do not care about.
EDIT: spelling
So I buy a book, I loose it. Do I have the right to go to the bookshop and request another book ?
What kind of weird sorcery is this lawsuit about. Yes I will most probably loose things I do not care about.
EDIT: spelling
goodcow, you are wrong, some lawyers read it. That said, I have never, ever had the patience, focus, knowledge, or interest in reading that stuff. This case shows there can be a price to pay for my laziness, but it's one that I'm willing to pay. So far it hasn't affected me much. I bought and downloaded some software from Amazon once and when I tried to download it years later for a new computer it was no longer available. So it goes.
Whether it’s an aprils fools joke or not, have grown tired of these lawsuits, fines and whatnot. Just do 1:1 reparations… books/music/games are gone? Put them back, I do actually want them back, in perpetuity (or reasonably so, say, for 50 years).
Keyboard or MacBook or phone or gadget took a dump? Replace it back, or the equivalent currently ongoing… I don’t need nor want a $10 gift card or something.
Phone box should have had or shouldn’t have had a charger box? Send the darn charger to each and every client that got sold one.
Why? Because we should get back the full value of the problematic item or situation, not a tiny fraction or a discount or a patch while the lawyers pocket the rest.
Keyboard or MacBook or phone or gadget took a dump? Replace it back, or the equivalent currently ongoing… I don’t need nor want a $10 gift card or something.
Phone box should have had or shouldn’t have had a charger box? Send the darn charger to each and every client that got sold one.
Why? Because we should get back the full value of the problematic item or situation, not a tiny fraction or a discount or a patch while the lawyers pocket the rest.
It does to him, Louis Rossmann and the rest of their ilk. They basically feel they can steal in perpetuity so long as they feel aggrieved by the man.
I didn't know at the beginning either, even when it wasn't available for re-watch. But then I really really wanted to re-watch something and I couldn't. So I called them and the support person told me that content belongs to a provider who no longer has a streaming contract with Apple. I asked them what about the promise of re-watch unlimited times, she offered me a rental for free of any movie.
I stopped buying from the apple store too and only watch streaming on prime, for which I already had subscription.
LOL I tried that before. I used to travel extensively on the old job. Tried to download several seasons onto the laptop, but a Macbook Air at that time could only hold so much.
Digital or streaming items are not permanent like physical books, albums, or Blu-rays.
So, if you’re a fan of a writer, director, or musician, consider purchasing their physical media!
So, if you’re a fan of a writer, director, or musician, consider purchasing their physical media!