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which_chick ([personal profile] which_chick) wrote in [personal profile] mistressofmuses 2023-11-20 03:14 pm (UTC)

Y'know, there was a time in History Back when I purchased seasons of television from Amazon digitally because I could play them on my computer (via browser) and it was handy and faster than Ahoy Me Hearties downloading over my relatively anemic DSL. And then for DRM reasons, the purchased seasons of television that I legit paid for (and that I felt I owned and which worked when I bought them) ceased to work for me and could not be made to work for me without a genuinely significant amount of dicking around like "get a Windows Emulator to run on my Ubuntu laptop" and "Install Internet Explorer version *blah*" and lolnope. I didn't have to do that when I purchased the seasons and they worked when I bought them and I was furious when they stopped working for me along about 2014.

It will be the twelfth of never before I *buy* another digital season of television that can be retconned to NOT WORK for me after the time of purchase. "Owning" things which I can be denied the ability to view or use AFTER I HAVE PAID FOR THEM is not "owning" and I am not doing that twice. I complained to Amazon about the issue and was not ever made whole. They sold me a thing which worked when I bought it, then they changed their delivery system/DRM (after I'd bought the thing) so that it did not work anymore and then they refused to refund my money. Not a fan. Still mad.

Also, just checked, now it works again. For now. LOL.

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