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DVDs, if taken care of properly, should last for 30 to up to 100 years. It turned out that the problems that Bumbray had weren't due to a DVD player or poor DVD maintenance. In a statement to JoBlo shared on Tuesday, WBD confirmed widespread complaints about DVDs manufactured between 2006 and 2008. The statement said:
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is aware of potential issues affecting select DVD titles manufactured between 2006 – 2008, and the company has been actively working with consumers to replace defective discs.
Where possible, the defective discs have been replaced with the same title. However, as some of the affected titles are no longer in print or the rights have expired, consumers have been offered an exchange for a title of like-value. //
Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader noted that owners of WB DVDs can check to see if their discs were manufactured by the maligned plant by looking at the inner ring codes on the DVDs' undersides. //
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DRM makes it difficult, and in some cases impossible, for people to make legitimate backups of their own media. Not being able to legally do this, particularly as examples like this article abound, is just one more example of how US Copyright Law is broken.
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You can't buy digital content.
You can only buy physical goods.
You never bought the digital content.
I think it should be illegal to use the word "buy" for a digital content license.
Why can't you buy digital content? Well, I read over the comments, and I was very surprised to see that nobody here has mentioned the fact that "First Sale Doctrine" does not apply to digital media. (Wikipedia).
In simplest terms, if you buy a copyrighted work in physical form, you can sell the physical form, rent it, loan it, whatever, all you want. You just can't make and sell a copy of the work that the form conveys.
The first sale doctrine does not apply to digital content (media and software) unless the seller of the digital content specifically grants you a license to sell the digital content (and, with some exceptions for software resellers, nobody does this.)
A streaming media company like Redbox, Amazon, Apple, whatever, rarely/never owns all the content they "sell" - they have a contract to be allowed to sell licenses to the content they have licensed in large and expensive deals. It's licenses all the way down.
At no time are the intellectual property rights to the content sold in this chain of sales.
When you "buy" digital content, you are buying nothing more than a license for unlimited replay of a media item, using technologies the seller deems appropriate for the replay of their content. That is all you're buying. A license. And the license may or may not transfer to another party in a bankruptcy. And the license may be revoked as a result of a dispute between the holder of the intellectual property rights and the distributor of the playback licenses.
But there is no good answer to this problem that conforms to the notion of copyright law as it is. Ultraviolet gave it a try, but it got so convoluted that it collapsed under the weight of it's own terms and conditions.
The economics of digital content are broken. The best we seem to come up with are advertising and subscriptions, sales are not really possible. Pirating and Streaming work really well at everything but getting the people who made the content paid.
Pirating content - that is obtaining a copyrighted work without the authorization of the copyright holder is, under numerous laws, theft. You can't just declare, "they didn't sell it to me, so I can just take it" and pretend there was no violation of the laws.
But, to be clear, I think that using the terminology of a sales transaction - specifically the word "Buy" - for streaming content is, put simply, fraudulent, misleading, etc etc...
Yes, in legal terms, I have "bought" a "right" that can be revoked - for example, I can buy a fishing license, but that license can be taken away for various reasons - but I think that most normal people do not see the purchase of a movie for their kids as something that can be taken away.
I'm not sure what the answer is here. An optical disc does not cost the rights holder or distributor anything once the physical object is sold; it does not matter if the seller goes out of business. Streaming media has perpetual costs that rise. If revenue does not offset the costs of the petabytes of storage and bandwidth needed to operate a well-rounded media library, it just vanishes. Even transferring it to the public domain isn't economically viable because of the costs needed to keep the media online.
In Star Trek, they allude to the huge economic disruptions caused to society by free energy, we're having a similar, smaller disruption to the "media" sector.
But when it comes to purchases made via streaming services, it’s more accurate to consider them rentals, despite them not being labeled as such and costing more than rentals with set time limits. As we’ve seen before, streaming companies can quickly yank away content that people feel that they paid to own, be it due to licensing disputes, mergers and acquisitions, or other business purposes. In this case, a company’s failure has resulted in people no longer being able to access content they already paid for and presumed they’d be able to access for the long haul.
For some, the reality of what it means to "own" a streaming purchase, combined with the unreliability and turbulent nature of today's streaming industry, has strengthened the appeal of physical media. Somewhat ironically, though, Redbox shuttering meant the end of one of the last mainstream places to access DVDs.
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