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... Consider the $4.99 director's cut of Alien on Amazon Prime Video. Cheap, right? But if the tech giant loses the rights to that version, the movie can be replaced with a different cut, like the one for theaters. And if Amazon loses the rights to the film altogether, it'll completely disappear from the viewer's library.

So should Amazon be able to say a consumer is "buying" that movie? Some people don't think so, and they've turned to court.

On Friday, a proposed class action was filed in Washington federal court against Amazon over a "bait and switch" in which the company allegedly misleads consumers into believing they've purchased content when they're only getting a license to watch, which can be revoked at any time.

The issue came to the forefront at the California legislature in 2023 when gamers discovered that their access to The Crew would be cut off once Ubisoft shut down servers for the game. After, the "Stop Killing Games" movement was born to stop publishers from destroying titles consumers had already bought. ...

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@#1 ... This is exactly what killed iTunes. ...

Ya know, now that you mention it, I don't se Apple promoting iTunes so much anymore.

If at all.

And, fwiw, I do agree with this lawsuit.

If someone is "licensing" version of media, then it should be presented as such, and not as "buying" (which, to me, implies sole possession) that version of the media.

@#6

Pirating media is a whole different thing.

@#6 ... If we don't own it when bought then we're not taking it ...

@#6 ... If we don't own it when bought then we're not taking it ...

But yeah, that seems to be the gist behind this lawsuit. ...

Amazon apparently telling you you own the media, when all you really have is a whimsical lease of the media.

@#8

Oops, a formatting error that resulted in my comment being negated by the backroom hamsters here.

Fortunately, my browser saved what I was trying to post, and I was able to correct it.