[jjav]

> Revocation should come with full refunds.

If I buy, say, a shovel and the hardware store sends someone to break into my house and steal the shovel back, hopefully they'd get arrested for the crime.

We should not be treating digital purchases any different. If I bought it, I bought it. It's mine forever.

But the oligarchs will never let that happen. So, in practice, always buy either the physical media or at least a DRM-free digital copy in an open format that you can save in your hard drive and play forever just like you can with a physical copy.

If neither of those are available I'd recommend just not buying. Or rent it for a one-off viewing with the full understanding that it is a one-off rental, priced accordingly.

[mindslight]

Or just pirate. There is no need to buy into the corpos' model, especially for this topic. Do you know what doesn't just spontaneously disappear? An .mp4 sitting on zfs.

The only reason these parasites survive is that there is very little advertising money behind user-empowering software, so setting something up for yourself looks daunting. Meanwhile the proprietary solutions market themselves as being straightforward, easy, and ultimately trustable. But as this action and countless similar ones demonstrate, this is far from the truth.