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Re:RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platf... by TeMPOraL on Thursday October 29, 2020 @10:11AM (#24930623)
Not really, because Spotify/Amazon/Netflix aren't giving you media, they only rent it out to you. They can and do retroactively take away access to any piece of content, while keeping the money.
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Re:RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platf... by phjesusthatguy3 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @01:20PM (#24932814)
They're not renting media to you, they're selling you an access license to something they may or may not have at any given moment. Literally Nothing-as-a-Service.
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