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  • Amazon Pulls Access to Purchased Christmas Videos During Christmas [can't watch what you paid for]

    12/21/2013 12:40:45 PM PST · by grundle · 33 replies
    torrentfreak.com ^ | December 16, 2013
    Disney has decided to pull access to several purchased Christmas videos from Amazon during the holiday season, as the movie studio wants its TV-channel to have the content exclusively. Affected customers have seen their videos disappear from their online libraries, showing once again that not everything you buy is actually yours to keep. One of the best ways to deal with online piracy is to make content available legally. This is common knowledge by now, but copyright holders still believe that exclusivity can earn them more in the long run, even when it hurts legitimate customers. A good example of...
  • Who inherits your iTunes library? Why your digital books and music may go to the grave

    08/25/2012 2:29:45 PM PDT · by grundle · 44 replies
    Market Watch ^ | August 23, 2012 | Quentin Fottrell
    Someone who owned 10,000 hardcover books and the same number of vinyl records could bequeath them to descendants, but legal experts say passing on iTunes and Kindle libraries would be much more complicated. And one’s heirs stand to lose huge sums of money. “I find it hard to imagine a situation where a family would be OK with losing a collection of 10,000 books and songs,” says Evan Carroll, co-author of “Your Digital Afterlife.” “Legally dividing one account among several heirs would also be extremely difficult.” Part of the problem is that with digital content, one doesn’t have the same...