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  • teamevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    This is just absurd. Often times we are paying just as much as a physical copy and now Amazon can just randomly decide to remove that content? Sounds like theft to me

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      They always can; when they aren’t able to distribute anymore then they can’t distribute it

    • histic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      31·
      9 months ago

      as much as I would love to blame it on Amazon it’s not their fault they don’t own the rights they are at the mercy of whoever does

        • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          If they didn’t someone else would. Literally every single copy of paid media that is for sale works like this. You likely don’t know that because with physical media they’re not likely to come into your home and take back the DVD or CD you bought from Tower Records before they company folded. But you still don’t own that music or that movie. You own the right to enjoy it for the life of the media through which you purchased it. You don’t have the right to demand another Taylor Swift CD because you scratched yours. If you should decide to make a backup copy, that’s legal. But I didn’t endure the entirety of the 90’s with the FBI threatening me every five minutes every single time I watched a DVD or VHS tapes just so you could claim that companies shouldn’t sell media the way they have always sold media. The medium is different and therefore they can retroactively go in and take it back but the terms are basically the same.

          Stream a movie to a crowd without the proper licensing and see if the media company who owns it or the FBI get to you first.

          If your country doesn’t have an FBI it likely has an agency that handles this similarly and I’m happy to Google that agency and the terms under which they would seek any kind of arbitration or damages.

    • FattestMattest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      They really shouldn’t be allowed to “sell” it but the same thing would happen if you bought something on Apple that Apple loses the rights to.

      • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        It is not their fault you don’t understand fundamentally what you are purchasing. When you buy media (digital or physical) you are purchasing a license to enjoy that media indefinitely. However that license has limitations. For the consumer or the company selling the license. The company that actually owns the media is the one at fault. But everyone is mad at Amazon (or Apple, or Microsoft, or Google), instead of record labels or movie studios. The only reason a movie company won’t come into your home and take back that copy of Shrek you bought from Tower Records back in the day is because it’s cost prohibitive. They can legally do so though.

        https://youtu.be/OzLmkAEpV2s?si=KkpWRirLgV6GOOyR