Re:Apple can delete purchased movies from your library witho...
by lhorie on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:44PM
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I'm not sure we can equate deleting a purchased digital asset with taking back a physical item. I'd imagine deleting something would be more akin to selling a product that is designed to break after a certain amount of time.
There's a pretty wide variance of what people consider acceptable from purchased things, e.g. People generally accept the idea that a mattress will eventually need to get changed even if it comes with a lifetime warranty.
Re:Apple can delete purchased movies from your library witho...
by xg15 on Thursday September 13, 2018 @12:03PM
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Actually, intentionally designing a product to break after a certain time is planned obsolescence and is not accepted at all.
Re:Apple can delete purchased movies from your library witho...
by rayiner on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:15PM
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Note that this is not about Apple taking content back. It's about Apple not allowing content to be re-downloaded after it has been deleted locally, if it has been pulled from the iTunes Store in the meantime. We're an all-iTunes household, as are my parents and in-laws, and the fact that iTunes "purchases" are subject to this condition has never elicited a comment from anyone I know.
Especially since it's not like Apple is guaranteeing that you get to keep the product for a minimum amount of time. They could just as well delete your purchase a minute after you bought it.
There isn't a single human on planet earth who thinks of such a transaction that gets withdrawn after one minute as a regular legitimate "purchase" of a product. Even "rental" doesn't quite cut it, it's more in the land of "fraud".