*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be able to access the films and TV shows they had bought. *

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      Piracy has never been theft, it has always been and still remain copyright infringement. That being said go ahead and pirate, I’m not your dad.

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    My whole library is wipped out

    I assumed this was about an actual library and not some shmuck who got suckered into a thinly veiled rental service.

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    You will own nothing and be happy.

    This is why sites like lemmy are important.

    We need to put an end to corporate tyranny.

    Humans in power are too egocentric to not be kept in check.

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      You will own nothing and be happy.

      Unironically the future of capitalism, as it devolves into feudalism with more killer robots.

      You’ve got the CEO (Absolute Monarch) who owns all the shit and you work on it in exchange for not being killed or deported. Maybe you get some treats from time to time. More likely, you just get someone from the PMC to tell you to pray more.

      Humans in power are too egocentric to not be kept in check.

      A handful of humans with the power to deliver unlimited genocide on their neighbors are hard to keep in check.

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    The idea that you could trust a corporation, any corporation, at its word is laughable on its face, and yet the courts have been relying on them to “follow the rules” unsupervised for years. Now capitalism doesn’t make anything that isn’t designed as a piece of shit that falls apart, and everything is a lie that they’re also making money from, from plastics recycling (not real and they make money on the chemicals they sell to the recycling industry) to the content you make that they get paid for and you don’t.

    The whole thing needs to go, all of it.

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      The idea that you could trust a corporation, any corporation, at its word is laughable on its face

      We’re surrounded by corporate entities all trying to leech profit out of us.

      It’s less a question of trust and more of information alternatives. When all you can hear is the din of advertisement, it’s difficult to chart a path through the racket.

      You’re bound to get suckered by someone, eventually.