Ownership rights are buried in the fine print and downloading or buying physical copies may be the only ways to keep your favourites

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be able to access the films and TV shows they had bought. *

  • 9488fcea02a9English
    1341·
    6 months ago

    If buying isnt owning then piracy isnt stealing

    • evidences@lemmy.worldEnglish
      79·
      6 months ago

      Piracy has never been theft, it has always been and still remain copyright infringement. That being said go ahead and pirate, I’m not your dad.

    • _number8_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      231·
      6 months ago

      When record companies make a fuss about the danger of “piracy”, they’re not talking about violent attacks on shipping. What they complain about is the sharing of copies of music, an activity in which millions of people participate in a spirit of cooperation. The term “piracy” is used by record companies to demonize sharing and cooperation by equating them to kidnaping, murder and theft.

      • mnemonicmonkeysEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        Well, not digital piracy. Ye olde piracy absolutely was stealing, plus a medley of other crimes

        • Emerald@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          I’m sure some digital piracy involves stealing. Someone has to have taken some floppy disk software from a store and walked out without paying for it, then made pirated copies of that disk