Neshura

Runs you the risk of getting caught plus is more work if you need a specific version rather than just a version.

I am not surprised in the slightest.

On a little tangent: my work laptop recently updated and the entire thing was going swimmingly (well aside from the fact Windows needs to restart 3 times in order to “Update and Shutdown” but eh) up until it got to 100%. The time it took to get from 0% to 100% was less than from 100% to actually finishing. I had enough time to hypothesize they let AI change something in the update process and one condition was to not increase how long it took to “complete” the update, ie get to 100%.

I wouldn’t say demand is high I would say demand is glitched and infinite. The AI bubble has gotten to such a scale where all the existing parts are already sold but even further they have sold parts that don’t even exist yet for datacenters which haven’t even started construction yet in order to satisfy a projected demand curve the sales people dreamed up in order to somehow promise a slight profitability of this entire mess.

They can and they do, it’s called selling a license to watch. If the platform loses their license to redistribute you may still hold that license to watch with them but since they now are not allowed to show it to you anymore that license is worth nothing anymore. Now if what you “bought” ever enters their platform again your license should still be valid, however often they weasel around this by licensing a “remaster” or other slightly modified version so they can argue it’s a different work.

I truly feel sorry for everyone affected but it’s also important to draw firm conclusions from this happening to oneself.

I’ve had this happen to me once, bought myself an Album on Amazon Music, back then the Amazon Music App was rather unusable so I just downloaded the MP3, years later I wanted to redownload some of the “worse” songs from this album I had deleted/lost over the years. Gone, the entire thing gone. Still there in my purchase history, unavailable anywhere else. Best part: the album itself was still on Amazon so I could have bought it again.

I drew my conclusion: Never buy with DRM. Always download the files, even if I don’t need them.

And just to be sure make a digital copy of those so you have at least 2 versions available should either version degrade.

In some jurisdiction bypassing the DRM for strictly personal use is even legal, in those where it’s not: if you don’t share your private copy can anyone even prove you bypassed it?

Sony pulled Linux from the PS3.

which was there so Sony could sell their console with a lower tax rate in some countries because it qualified as a “Personal Computer” due to Linux being available, whereas without they would have needed to sell it as “Entertainment Media”