Apple is Deleting Purchased Movies from iTunes

mope54 said:
Of course they won't be on board. Anyone in this thread bitching about Apple's part in this wasn't alive before Apple's part in this. Because back then, before Apple used its massive userbase to shift the market to streaming products while getting the content license owners on board, people were going to prison and bankrupt for file sharing. People may not like what it's become now, but it was the dark ages back then...very dark.
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Well the other thing people are missing is that in the US (and probalby some other countries), downloading a 50GB movie is both slow and going to eat up their limited bandwidth. And if the movie is always stored on the sellers servers (e.g. Apple or Amazon), then it's even worse.
I get the convenience of Apple or whatever, but I just buy my Disks and rip them. Best of both worlds.
 
nilepez said:
downloading a 50GB movie is both slow and going to eat up their limited bandwidth
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The US is a big place, and I'm going to assume that this is highly regional- haven't hardly seen it in Texas, for example.

I do realize that some parts of the country, and definitely those in other countries, get pretty screwed, and in others people have it pretty damn good i comparison.
 
Icon_Charlie said:
HardCopy.... Always... WE are in the world of leasing... do you really think that Apple or anyone else is going to let you keep your library in the future??? I hard copy everything as much as possible.

I do not do banking on the computer. I write checks and have an image sent to me every month. Why Because Every corporation including your government will screw you over and/or make a mistake... you have to prove it. I have already have done this on several occasions with my banks as well as dealing with certain corporations. You have to have the hard copy to prove their mistake otherwise you lose.

Also within 25 years All of my friends have been hit with fraud because of online banking and their excessive use as well as how they use their credit card digitally. I have not. I try to keep my digital signature down to a minimum. It's cash when I want to buy anything... Including big market items as much as it is possible for myself.
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Except it's getting harder to live that way. over in Europe it's much worse.

Many apartments around here don't take checks, they require a bank account that they debit each month.
(I know this because others I work with have told me. I've never rented an apartment).

Send you kid to private school? same thing, direct debit from you account. (I set up a separate free checking account and put just enough in it each month.)

Even if you don't do any on-line banking, you need to check your accounts. Most payments from accounts only match the bank routing number and account number. There is no cross check for names. If someone makes a mistake that happens to match your bank account & routing number, they will take the money from your account. If you don't notice it, after a month it will be too late to reverse the charge,
 
AlphaAtlas said:
In 2015, some slides detailing online DRM for UHD Blu-rays leaked out.

I don't think it was ever implemented (maybe due to the backlash?), but it's definitely something to look out. Physical media might not really be physical in the near future.
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Online check for playing a Blu-ray? Go luck for all the people who don't have internet at home or have it connected to their Blu-ray player.
 
Few things here since the dude has been interviewed since...

He purchased the movies in Australia, then moved to Canada. He didn’t have the movies downloaded otherwise he would still have them. He can’t access the Australian versions of theses movies from Canada as his purchases on these particular movies can’t transfer.

Technically he could just use an Australian VPN, change his region on the device, download the movies, then switch back to the Canadian region.
 
IdiotInCharge said:
The US is a big place, and I'm going to assume that this is highly regional- haven't hardly seen it in Texas, for example.
I do realize that some parts of the country, and definitely those in other countries, get pretty screwed, and in others people have it pretty damn good i comparison.
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Unless something has changed, if you have AT&T, you have a cap. If you have Comcast, you have a cap. Charter doesn't have a cap and FIOS has one, but at 10TB, you're unlikely to hit it (and 50GB is nothing in that case).

I do not believe you could stream a 4k movie on the median rate, but some definitely could if you have constant bandwidth of 110mbps (though that's the max and smaller disks probably use less, but i think it starts at 80mbps, which is higher than the median and average download rate in the USA.
 
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