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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Honestly, in this case I think its time based licensing that is the issue. This would be very limited as an issue as a whole if publishers/creators couldn't say "yea so you have the ability to sell this, but after X years you lose the ability to host it period"

Currently big companies like sony can just offload the blame to the license holder saying "yea we cant host it anymore" when in reality it shouldn't matter.

Licensing that expire over time shouldn't be legal. If you bought a license to use a product, you should be allowed to keep that product. Don't provide updates if don't want to, but if you paid for the ability to have and use a product (in this case media) it shouldn't be legal to retroactively pull it without compensation.

Said compensation should also at minimum be a percentage of the product based off how much it was used, with the overall refund not allowed to go under half the price of the product paid. The fact they can be like "yea we don't wanna host this anymore but we aren't going to provide refunds" is ridiculous.

Being said, I agree with your sentiment. I firmly believe bypassing DRM for a product you bought and have the right to use should be legal. I don't agree that Ripping a movie that you purchased that has a DRM component should be illegal, just like I don't agree that removing a DRM component from a game I own should be illegal. If you own the product, you should be allowed to use it how you want. I can understand the exception of distribution(this doesn't mean I agree with it), because I get it $$$ but the fact I can potentially be charged criminally for ripping a 4k disk, and then putting it on my private media server that only I have access to, is insane to me.