The deception of “buying” digital movies

Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by Kon-Peki on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:35AM (#33081880)

> But unless something has changed, as long as you keep that computer offline it will be able to play those videos in eternity.

I don't know if it ever was that way. If it was, something has changed.

During the early months of the pandemic, we carried a Mac mini around that had a ton of downloaded content, and spent a lot of time in places with no internet service. It needed to "re-bless" itself every so often (I don't remember how often - maybe once a month or twice a month - it wasn't very often).

Our solution was to carry it with us when we were near enough to a tower. Using a phone hotspot with just a single bar of bad service, the process took 10-15 seconds.

So as far as tech/media companies go, Apple is almost certainly the least bad option, by a wide margin. But it's not perfect ;)

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by kalleboo on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @01:48PM (#33084005)

> I don't know if it ever was that way. If it was, something has changed

To be fair, it was a LONG time since stopped buying video from iTunes. Like 5 years at least. I subscribe to a bunch of the streaming services but instead of bothering to figure out exactly where something is streaming I just download it from the Pirate Bay where I know I can find everything right away.

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