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‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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*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. *

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[–] [email protected] 165 points 6 months ago (16 children)

Piracy is only illegal because we made it so. We can change that.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 months ago (9 children)

I think what we should do is to have better non-piracy ways of owning things instead of "making piracy legal" (what does that even mean?)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I want to see a world where content creators are simply paid by the hour, while they work. Why do they get to still make money off their work 70 years after they died?

Yes, it would probably mean that billion-dollar-movies aren't viable anymore, and most YouTubers couldn't live off their videos, but I see that as a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

want to see a world where content creators are simply paid by the hour, while they work.

Do you? Because that's how game developers get their ideas crushed in favor of yet another game as a service that nobody asked for but makes stock holders happy.

And for alternative creators, who would pay? Do they need to be churning content as a job and not because they are inspired?

I get the idea, it's just that seems hard to pull off

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