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What is the legal difference between owning digital and physical media? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sony is Sony is about to delete Mythbusters, Naked and Afraid, and tons of other Discovery shows from PlayStation users’ libraries even if they already “purchased” them.

So, if you bought a DVD licensed by Sony, can they now legally enter your house and take your DVD?

Or can Sony have some sort of DRM that prevents the DVD from playing when Sony loses the license agreement?

I'm just trying to reconcile how digital purchases can be subject to license terms changes, while a DVD apparently can't be.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (19 children)

So, if you bought a DVD licensed by Sony, can they now legally enter your house and take your DVD?

No. You fully own the DVD. However if there are any features that are live based they have full rights to deactivate those. You can (grey area) legally make a backup copy of said disc. However, it's also (grey area) not legal to break encryption (which almost every disc has) to make said copy, so catch 22. (Someone I'm sure will correct me if I'm wrong). But since it's for personal use they haven't really pressured that.

There is no "license" with a DVD. You bought it, you own it. It's just the law that you can't make copies, sell or distribute them, or I believe show it to your neighborhood. (Legally I don't even think a bbq movie night with more than 5 people watching is okay, which is why Microsoft reeeeally loved the whole kinect camera watching you)

Sidenote, this post makes me so sad. People have become so accustomed to renting everything we have to explain what owning things was like. "What, you mean you could just have it? And they couldn't come take it away?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There is no “license” with a DVD.

But Sony had a license to produce and sell that DVD, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Media is treated more like drugs. A license to own rights, produce, distribute, and physically possess are all different licenses.

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