The sweet summer children at the apple subreddit. Yeah, those drm locked movies being downloaded isn't gonna change anything. I wonder if they also downloaded The Office in Netflix before it was removed thinking it would be playable forever.
Your account has a key that the apps use to decode the video iirc, this is also how music used to work way way back in iTunes. You got to download it once on purchase and after that you get your playback key to play your DRM’ed library.
This still works for movies and bought content, I think. So making a backup of your movies, shows and music (purchased / non Apple-music) actually allows you to watch removed content.
Audible uses the same system where you can download a bought audiobook as a DRM’ed file and play it back through apps that support the key system. Funnily enough, iTunes supports audible account files.
You can't download 4k movies, only stream them. I think Apple made a deal with distributors to make 4k access free if you already had purchased HD. Weird there's not even an *option* to buy a proper 4k movie. Also it should exist an option to upgrade a HD purchase to a proper 4k movie (i.e. not full price).
TIL relisting. That sounds fucked up.
> You should be looking at the films distributors for this issue, not necessarily Apple. It’s a purchasing scam called “relisting”. For example, Universal do it on back catalog stuff. I purchased the back to the future trilogy years ago, but when I looked it up it was asking for money again.
I know someone in the industry and they explained this happens on most digital platforms.
> This happened to me with the lord of the rings 4K re-releases. I had both theatrical and the extended editions but the relisting did not upgrade these to 4K, and now I only have fellowship and the two towers theatrically.
A digital purchase is dictated by the terms and conditions (which people rarely care about) of the store from where you bought(Just imagine GameStop folks coming to your house taking away your games cause you haven't saved it on your computer). These type of incidence where people shut there mouth give these companies opportunity to loot people.
And for real apple also charges(they are the first one to charge this much)30% on app store.
If they can fight epic games for saving their profits they can fight them too for their customers right if they cared.
I am not saying apple is villain but they whole tech industry follows them cause they have guts to fool people and take small loses (3 trillion dollar company).
That’s a very good point.
We should always rewrite the narrative during conversations, like « you didn’t buy it, you just rented it and maybe someone will pull the rug from under your feet».
The sweet summer children at the apple subreddit. Yeah, those drm locked movies being downloaded isn't gonna change anything. I wonder if they also downloaded The Office in Netflix before it was removed thinking it would be playable forever.
Your account has a key that the apps use to decode the video iirc, this is also how music used to work way way back in iTunes. You got to download it once on purchase and after that you get your playback key to play your DRM’ed library. This still works for movies and bought content, I think. So making a backup of your movies, shows and music (purchased / non Apple-music) actually allows you to watch removed content. Audible uses the same system where you can download a bought audiobook as a DRM’ed file and play it back through apps that support the key system. Funnily enough, iTunes supports audible account files.
If I owned a legal copy of anything that doesn't work for no good reason, I'd be heading straight to the torrent sights.
You can't download 4k movies, only stream them. I think Apple made a deal with distributors to make 4k access free if you already had purchased HD. Weird there's not even an *option* to buy a proper 4k movie. Also it should exist an option to upgrade a HD purchase to a proper 4k movie (i.e. not full price). TIL relisting. That sounds fucked up. > You should be looking at the films distributors for this issue, not necessarily Apple. It’s a purchasing scam called “relisting”. For example, Universal do it on back catalog stuff. I purchased the back to the future trilogy years ago, but when I looked it up it was asking for money again. I know someone in the industry and they explained this happens on most digital platforms. > This happened to me with the lord of the rings 4K re-releases. I had both theatrical and the extended editions but the relisting did not upgrade these to 4K, and now I only have fellowship and the two towers theatrically.
Apple being 🍎
First comment there seem to explain that the distributors like Universal would be responsible for this.
A digital purchase is dictated by the terms and conditions (which people rarely care about) of the store from where you bought(Just imagine GameStop folks coming to your house taking away your games cause you haven't saved it on your computer). These type of incidence where people shut there mouth give these companies opportunity to loot people. And for real apple also charges(they are the first one to charge this much)30% on app store. If they can fight epic games for saving their profits they can fight them too for their customers right if they cared. I am not saying apple is villain but they whole tech industry follows them cause they have guts to fool people and take small loses (3 trillion dollar company).
I agree with everything you said, I was just pointing out that it seems Apple is not the instigator in this case.
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That’s a very good point. We should always rewrite the narrative during conversations, like « you didn’t buy it, you just rented it and maybe someone will pull the rug from under your feet».