[SlightlyLeftPad]

This is too easy to loophole out of and it leaves too big of a hole to patch. As a company, all I would need to do is sell the rights, shut down the service, buy it back, rinse and repeat. I don’t think this is a great solution.

[android42]

Then they can be blocked from selling the rights without the liability of maintaining the service being attached. In order to end the obligation of maintaining the service, DRM free copies must be provided to everyone who purchased the content for some minimum time frame. Failure to do so puts the work in the public domain.

[coremoff]

I disagree; in that if they try and sell the rights, they're trying to get out of their obligations to make the content available - that's the point at which it should be blocked; or the new rights holder needs to pick up those obligations to existing customers with the same terms.

[SlightlyLeftPad]

I imagine it’s much more complicated than that because they themselves may have never owned the content. A lot of times, they’re leasing content. I think the content owner could choose not to renew a contract thus requiring the distributor to stop distributing. I imagine if the regulator were to go after this, thee’d really need to start at the content owner themselves as well as every middleman.

[j16sdiz]

You can't sell your right without selling the liability.

When the company go bankrupt, somebody should represent the customer and get a fair share in what's left..

[consp]

Which they shouldn't do unpenalized since selling would void the contract.

[eru]

That's awful for your reputation.

[SlightlyLeftPad]

I chuckled a little bit when I read this. I honestly believe this isn’t something these companies care about at all. It already does damage their reputation yet we see it happen again and again. I do wonder why, does it come down to the monopolization of content? I want to say I’m surprised but I’m not.

[brnt]

We don't buy Sony/Apple/Microsoft/etc because we want to, but because we have no choice. To too big to care.

[eru]

How do you have no choice? Who is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to buy from Sony?

[bryanrasmussen]

whereas this shit here is doing some wonders!