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Re:Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies by neilv on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:56PM (#26917342)
FWIW, Sony just backtracked on the PS3 and Vita store shutdowns, for now (but still moving forward with PSP store shutdown, last I heard):

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2021/04/20/sony-isnt-c...

I agree that there's been some highly questionable shutdowns of DRM and content servers by a few major companies, later disabling things that they claimed customers were buying.

It seems we're lacking sufficient regulatory/judicial disincentives for companies to hoover up much of the market for selling content products, then fly-by-night shutdown of the DRM and content servers that they'd intentionally made part of the products.

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Re:Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies by lrvick on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:24PM (#26920441)
IMO if someone wants to shut down distribution of DRM media, then they should grant users blanket license to own a single copy in whatever format they wish.

If that means they are protected from legal recourse for obtaining a single pirated copy, that works.

Else, they have to do the work to distribute DRM free copies until every user has one, since they changed the terms of ownership.

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