If you "buy" a movie on a cloud service … you are buying a license to view it, which license allows the "real" owner to dictate when, where, and how you can actually access it.
For example, if you buy a Disney Christmas movie on Amazon's video service, and Disney subsequently decides that they only want people to see that movie on their own channels during the actual Christmas seasons … you're pretty much out of luck.
That may be okay — but it's definitely a factor to consider when buying digital "cloud" stuff.
Reshared post from +Steven Flaeck
This is what was set in motion in the 1970s, when we started using the term "intellectual property" instead of "copyright" or "author's monopoly." If the movie is Disney's "property" for ever and ever, it follows that it is never your property, no matter that you "buy" it. And since "IP" is embedded in everything from blenders to cars to yoga studios, there is nothing that you can ever own — you can only be a tenant in someone else's fields, an ambulatory wallet for a rentier looking for "passive income" while suckers like you work for a living and pay rent on everything in your life, only to have it yanked away from you at the landlord's pleasure.
Dismantle it. Dismantle it all.
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Amazon takes away access to purchased Christmas movie during Christmas
That seems to be a pretty ridiculous notion. Personally I'd much rather own a physical copy of these things for similar reasons. Strange how these things change over time.
+Kimi Arista It's something I simply calculate into the purchase. Am I willing for this thing I am buying access to to vanish in the future for the price I'm paying and the chance to see it right now? If so, I buy. If not, I choose a less convenient format.
Or I make sure I have a backup I can use in the future.
That's the main reason I use Google Music All Access. Yes it is cloud based and can be yanked, but if I like something enough I'll buy the digital version, then download it and burn a copy immediately.
+Derik DaSilva A good strategy.
That's crappy!
One big reason I still buy old-timey paper books.
Given this news, I would not buy anything digital I couldn't download and keep a copy of. This is really giving the customers the finger.