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Showing Original Post only (View all)Not everything you buy is actually yours to keep.-Amazon blocks videos already bought by customers. [View all]
Disney has decided to pull access to several purchased Christmas videos from Amazon during the holiday season, as the movie studio wants its TV-channel to have the content exclusively.
Affected customers have seen their videos disappear from their online libraries, showing once again that not everything you buy is actually yours to keep.
Affected customers have seen their videos disappear from their online libraries, showing once again that not everything you buy is actually yours to keep.
Disneys decision to make certain Christmas videos unavailable on Amazon is because they want people to tune in to their TV channel instead. This ban is not limited to new customers and includes those who already purchased the videos.
One of the affected customers of Disneys restrictive policy is Bill, who informed BoingBoing that the Christmas themed Disney Prep & Landing he bought for his kids last year had been pulled from his library.
Amazon has explained to me that Disney can pull their content at any time and at this time theyve pulled that show for exclusivity on their own channel. In other words, Amazon sold me a Christmas special my kids cant watch during the run up to Christmas, Bill notes.
Itll be available in July though! he adds.
http://torrentfreak.com/amazon-pulls-access-to-purchased-christmas-videos-during-christmas-131216/
Another reason the cloud concept is not good.
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Not everything you buy is actually yours to keep.-Amazon blocks videos already bought by customers. [View all]
dixiegrrrrl
Dec 2013
OP
If I spend $14.99 for a downloaded video, it better damn well be there tomorrow or 50 years from now
Vashta Nerada
Dec 2013
#14
Amazon deleted 8 minutes from the series finale of The Office after I purchased it
Shampoobra
Dec 2013
#41
I think the trick is to just use the digital content as a compliment to a physical collection
Shampoobra
Dec 2013
#47
The cloud concept is just fine for many things. It is needing more control
Pretzel_Warrior
Dec 2013
#8
It's not a matter of a silly name - torrents are regularly used to steal copy written work nt
el_bryanto
Dec 2013
#35
"Regulation" is how this came to be. This is simply the corporate kleptocracy doing some
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#53
That sucks. Give me a disk. Or a thumb drive. Or anything solid that doesn't require
MADem
Dec 2013
#27
Idiots. Just fucking count the online views as ratings for the Disney channel. Done.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2013
#33
Amazon has an "Unbox" player for the PC, where you can download videos you have bought
quinnox
Dec 2013
#37
This is an issue with all digital media -- including e-books, kindle, etc. You don't really "own"
El_Johns
Dec 2013
#43
I don't buy anything that I can't download onto my local computer and use, DRM-free, the...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2013
#51