Posted by bilsbie 5 hours ago
I doubt most of the people who "bought" the film understood that they weren't buying it and it could be taken away from theme at any time.
> What's the name of that website?
I tell them to use yandex, they will find plenty of such websites...
And yes, bypassing DRM is banned speech in the USA, punishable by criminal law. And there's no actual requirement of a company to claim DRM and defeat methods. The law is set up so they can claim basically anything, and its 100% backed by criminal law.
1FA is kinda a joke, cause saying inane shit like "Hitler was a good guy" is perfectly fine, but "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0" (HD-DVD private key) is criminally banned speech.
Now we're not even getting to retain what we buy, this is not a streaming service, these were sold to users individually.
We've gone full circle where I honestly believe pirating is a far better offering.
The root of the problem is these ridiculous content licensing agreements, it should be very very obvious to the customer when they're buying that "Hey, you will own this until X date when our content licensing agreement is finished"
Not hidden by design in some dense ToS.
I guess residuals are a made up thing.
At some point, being more honest about what artists get paid will probably help the middlemen more than harm them.
What are people to do if they want to stay on the non-pirate/legal side of this but also prevent being royally F-ed?