Obviously media permanence is the best solution, but in the absence of that we just need laws that say that if the purchase isn’t time limited to something a reasonable user would consider a rental (48hrs? a week?) then companies that withdraw access rights need to refund in full the purchase cost.

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jagged-chisel 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Let's add inflation to that. Or charge interest for the loan.

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kmeisthax 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The most frustrating thing about all of this is that if I'd published a game on PlayStation and then told Sony to rip it out of people's libraries, they'd tell me to pound sand. The contracts you sign to ship games on PlayStation specifically include redownload rights. So Sony knows this is a problem, and yet for whatever reason decided NOT to secure the rights they'd need for the digital purchases to actually work like a purchase.

	▲	k_roy 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is nothing new and the reason I went from being the biggest media collector to collecting nothing now. To put it in perspective, I bought Get Him to the Greek on Prime video shortly after it came out. A month later, the "exclusive broadcast rights" changed, and I was no longer able to access it.