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- tecnologia@lemmy.eco.br
As always, the paying user has the worst experience. “Purchase” a show, can only watch on a certain console of a certain brand, no transfers, no backups, then it suddenly disappears from the library and nothing can be done.
If media companies insist on draconian DRM, then they should pay for full refunds to their loyal customers when one day they decide to delist that specific show.
- metaStatic ( @metaStatic@kbin.social ) 241•10 months ago
if buying isn’t owning piracy isn’t stealing
- aldalire ( @aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English37•10 months ago
I wish u could retweet a lemmy comment. Well said.
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English30•10 months ago
technically you can since lemmy, kbin, and mastodon all use activitypub :P
- aldalire ( @aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•10 months ago
How tho. I use the Voyager app for Lemmy (iOS)
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English11•10 months ago
you can technically follow lemmy users in mastodon. in megalodon (or whatever your client is), just search for the lemmy handle. their posts are toots and their comments are replies
- anothermember ( @anothermember@beehaw.org ) English2•10 months ago
Not within Lemmy, but if you were on, for example, a federated Mastodon instance it’s perfectly possible to boost that comment that would appear like a retweet to Mastodon users.
- JokeDeity ( @JokeDeity@lemm.ee ) English1•10 months ago
The Voyager community (I use it too), JUST had a post from the developer that he added a feature to post comments as pictures, but I don’t actually know how to do it.
- Septimaeus ( @Septimaeus@infosec.pub ) English3•10 months ago
- JokeDeity ( @JokeDeity@lemm.ee ) English2•10 months ago
Niiiice, thank you!
- metaStatic ( @metaStatic@kbin.social ) 18•10 months ago
welcome to the fediverse. Boost = retweet ;)
- Untitled_Pribor ( @Untitled_Pribor@kbin.social ) 2•10 months ago
You can on /kbin
- DebatableRaccoon ( @DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca ) English14•10 months ago
Fairer words have never been spoken
- conciselyverbose ( @conciselyverbose@kbin.social ) 53•10 months ago
Absolutely insane.
I can understand extreme cases, like some sort of disputed IP where their contact to sell the content turns out not to be with the actual rights holder, resulting in no longer serving the content (with an unconditional full refund). But past that they should be legally required to host the content until the heat death of the universe.
- SamXavia ( @SamXavia@kbin.run ) 31•10 months ago
Yeah this is one of the reasons I’ve been slowly moving my gaming time over to Steam as they very rarely do stuff like this and if they delist the game, if you’ve already purchased the game you can still play it 99.99% of time. Sad to see Playstation go down this route.
- Grunt4019 ( @Grunt4019@lemm.ee ) English4•10 months ago
Unfortunately it’s the same situation on steam. You are only buying licenses to games you don’t actually own it, they can be taken away at any time with no recourse. Steam might be doing good now in this regard but it’s hard to say if it will stay like this forever.
- meseek #2982 ( @ultratiem@lemmy.ca ) English20•10 months ago
Give it another 10 years, you won’t “own” anything. It’ll be “licensed.” Weird tho. Digital content is endless. But you can’t consume it into extinction; physical things are finite, but we’re like here take it! It’s yours! Call a cop or shoot anyone trying to take it.
Seems backwards to me.
- kindenough ( @kindenough@kbin.social ) 37•10 months ago
“We sincerely thank you for your continued support.”
As in stfu and keep giving us money?
- DebatableRaccoon ( @DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca ) English11•10 months ago
Looks perfectly translated to me
- ColeSloth ( @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ) English26•10 months ago
Like… They’re straight up taking it back? No refunding? That is so asinine.
- Radioactive Radio ( @radioactiveradio@lemm.ee ) English24•10 months ago
Now THAT is stealing.
- MonkderZweite ( @MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ) English23•10 months ago
“But you only ever owned a usage-license, which we now suspended” strawman argument incoming.
Well duh, then i don’t have “buyed” but rented it. Usage of those terms by platforms should be sued as misleading.
- CaptObvious ( @CaptObvious@literature.cafe ) English22•10 months ago
And this is why I never “buy” media online. If I can’t own the media and enjoy the content whenever and wherever I want, it’s rented. I may be ok with that, but I never let them claim that it was a sale.
- SamXavia ( @SamXavia@kbin.run ) 15•10 months ago
Sadly purchasing a phyical copy still will mean you can’t play it due to the required download for most consoles these days.
- CaptObvious ( @CaptObvious@literature.cafe ) English5•10 months ago
Hence “and enjoy it whenever and wherever I want.” If they maintain control, it’s not sold. It is, at best, rented.
Fortunately, there are often tools to enforce the first sale doctrine.
- Crit ( @crit@links.hackliberty.org ) English8•10 months ago
Buy it for the convenience and for the good Devs, pirate it after if they try taking it away. You already paid for it
- CaptObvious ( @CaptObvious@literature.cafe ) English6•10 months ago
Exactly.
It’s much the same as creators in Second Life who don’t want to sell in the Opensim metaverse. I get where they’re coming from in terms of protecting a recurring revenue stream, but if the customer has already paid for the product once, under first sale doctrine, they have the right to continue using it.
- Scrof ( @Scrof@sopuli.xyz ) English18•10 months ago
Modern consoles are a scam.
- Zink ( @Zink@programming.dev ) English5•10 months ago
I still like having a console strictly for games, but not for media stuff. Plus since it’s an Xbox, you can subscribe to Game Pass and treat every game as a rental.
That doesn’t do anything to help game preservation though, which sucks. But between the sheer volume of games and the “every game is a rental” attitude, I treat new games as a one-time experience that I probably won’t care about returning to.
Fortunately though, the games I care most about having access to forever are easily backed up and can be played with an emulator if necessary.
- Blue and Orange ( @DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee ) English15•10 months ago
Fucking assholes. This is why piracy is justifiable, and in some cases, even necessary.
- DebatableRaccoon ( @DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca ) English13•10 months ago
God, I hope these bastards get sued 'cause little doubt they won’t be refunding the poor schmos who’ve just been robbed of their property.
- Stretch2m ( @Stretch2m@lemm.ee ) English4•10 months ago
I’m sure they covered this in the terms of service that they know no one ever reads.
- tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 ( @tryptaminev@feddit.de ) English7•10 months ago
In many countries that wont work. The Terms of service need to only include reasonable and expectable clauses, as they are not negotionable.
And “purchase doesnt mean ownership, we take it from you anytime we want” is neither reasonable nor expectable.
Also this should run under criminal fraud imo. The customers were deliberately deceived by the term “purchase” into believing they would be granted ownership.
- ddkman ( @ddkman@lemm.ee ) English3•10 months ago
To be fair, Sony might go for that. This is incredibly embarrassing for them as well, and it does erode the trust in their service which is really important for a marketplace like this. Sony will be handing out coupons probably, but this is still damage to their brand.
- ddkman ( @ddkman@lemm.ee ) English12•10 months ago
I think when this happens you DO get a refund, (usually a coupon for the same service, but still). This is a situation where villanizing Sony would be, but not necessarily correct. Obviously they have no interest to remove previously purchased content from user libraries. (like this).
So the question is, on what possible grounds can a company change licensing AFTER sales have been made. This is the same fucking mess as with the soundtrack being retroactively removed from GTAIV. How is this legal?
- conciselyverbose ( @conciselyverbose@kbin.social ) 6•10 months ago
A coupon for the same service is not and does not resemble a refund.
Yes, villainizing them is entirely correct. If they sold the license 100 years ago and stopped providing it, they should be legally liable for a 100% refund of the purchase price, plus interest. If they fucked up their contracts in a manner in which they aren’t able to serve the content to purchasers until the end of the time, it’s entirely their own problem.
- ddkman ( @ddkman@lemm.ee ) English1•10 months ago
When companies fight regulations they use statements THIS unreasonable to fight better legislation, for framing everyone who supports better regulation, as completely unreasonable whining anti capitalistic bigots, who just want regulation that makes conducting any business basically impossible.
With this logic, if your DVD rots, does the company who originally released the DVD owe you a full refund plus interest?
- conciselyverbose ( @conciselyverbose@kbin.social ) 4•10 months ago
No, backing it up is your obligation.
A digital purchase means they owe you access, in the format your purchased, as long as they exist. Nothing short of that can possibly be acceptable if there is any copy protection at all.
- pan_troglodytes ( @pan_troglodytes@programming.dev ) English11•10 months ago
almost like “purchasing” it was the real crime.
- noobdoomguy8658 ( @noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de ) English6•10 months ago
That’s 1318 items, according to that table, counting by seasons. Insane.
- Lath ( @Lath@kbin.social ) 6•10 months ago
Whoever wrote that list probably isn’t being paid enough.
- KpochMX ( @KpochMX@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English6•10 months ago
This is why i hate digital only and no more game disc, also battlepass and dlc.
you own nothing but pays the full price for the permission to play and they cant remove access at any time.-
Marvel vs capcom 2 its my favorite game and they removed from store, i know is about licensing but they will not come to my house for the DVD Disc right?