Ownership rights are buried in the fine print and downloading or buying physical copies may be the only ways to keep your favourites

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be able to access the films and TV shows they had bought. *

  • @[email protected]English
    3•8 months ago

    Thanks for sharing! I wish they had the date of publishing listed for this article. I get the feeling it was written 15 years ago, well before streaming music services existed. Would love to see them update this based on the latest technologies and services.

    • NekuSoulEnglish
      6•8 months ago

      Looking into the metadata of the included PDF version reveals that it’s from 2004, so even a bit older than that.

    • @ZachariahEnglish
      3•8 months ago

      The EFF’s concept was from the Napster days, but I think this was written later on.