{"id":40082,"date":"2013-12-15T22:51:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T05:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/15\/you-dont-own-what-you-think-you-own.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T12:42:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T19:42:35","slug":"you-dont-own-what-you-think-you-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/15\/you-dont-own-what-you-think-you-own.html","title":{"rendered":"You Don't Own What You Think You Own"},"content":{"rendered":"
If you buy a DVD, you own it. \u00a0You can watch it whenever you want. You can loan it to someone. You can even sell it on eBay.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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 \u00a0during the actual Christmas seasons … you're pretty much out of luck.<\/p>\n

That may be okay — but it's definitely a factor to consider when buying digital "cloud" stuff.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Steven Flaeck<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/i><\/p>\n

Dismantle it. Dismantle it all.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amazon takes away access to purchased Christmas movie during Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you buy a DVD, you own it. \u00a0You can watch it whenever you want. You can loan it to someone. You can even sell it on eBay. 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