I have a big fear about download only media. What's to stop a studio from making it so that the movies we download are unusable for certain periods of time. Like say for example, when it gets re-released in theaters? All they'd have to do is add a small line in the EULA that no one reads and it would be perfectly legal. Or say a certain scene offends some loudmouth parent group/racial special interest/what have you, and your download is deleted and replaced with a censored version. How about Disney, with their shitty Vault? You could only own it until they decide to lock it away for a few years, at which point you can pay to own it for their limited time again.
I know we'll always have ways to strip such stupid DRM from the files but I'd rather not have to.
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I have a big fear about download only media. What's to stop a studio from making it so that the movies we download are unusable for certain periods of time. Like say for example, when it gets re-released in theaters? All they'd have to do is add a small line in the EULA that no one reads and it would be perfectly legal.
Or say a certain scene offends some loudmouth parent group/racial special interest/what have you, and your download is deleted and replaced with a censored version.
How about Disney, with their shitty Vault? You could only own it until they decide to lock it away for a few years, at which point you can pay to own it for their limited time again.
I know we'll always have ways to strip such stupid DRM from the files but I'd rather not have to.