Re:Amazon takes away access to purchased Christmas movie dur...
by georgemcbay on Sunday December 15, 2013 @08:07PM
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Not that surprising to me personally, but a shitty situation.
The only reason it isn't surprising is that I briefly worked for a company that was creating a digital media service (Technicolor's MGO service, after they acquired the remaining chumby employees), and I remember hearing about how this sort of situation could occur as part of the technical planning and I was just flabbergasted that EULA/TOS or not these media companies would 'sell' a digital movie to a consumer and then ex-post-facto limit their ability to watch it based on various contracts. This example seems especially egregious considering the seasonal aspect of the movie.
While Amazon is certainly complicit here, I think the article is a bit too hard on them as basically the current system is you play by these rules (set by collusion of the media companies) or you get no access to content.
The only reason it isn't surprising is that I briefly worked for a company that was creating a digital media service (Technicolor's MGO service, after they acquired the remaining chumby employees), and I remember hearing about how this sort of situation could occur as part of the technical planning and I was just flabbergasted that EULA/TOS or not these media companies would 'sell' a digital movie to a consumer and then ex-post-facto limit their ability to watch it based on various contracts. This example seems especially egregious considering the seasonal aspect of the movie.
While Amazon is certainly complicit here, I think the article is a bit too hard on them as basically the current system is you play by these rules (set by collusion of the media companies) or you get no access to content.