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<blockquote data-quote="Actionball" data-source="post: 11773" data-attributes="member: 527"><p>And none of what you said is contrary to my post. It has happened, continues to happen and the technology exists to do it.</p><p></p><p>For all the big cases like Amazon and the overly ironic 1984 deletion there are a million little ones.</p><p></p><p>Before I had a smart phone and could make my own ringtone clips I had about 7 paid rings on my old Verizon phone. One day my phone goes back to default and when I check on the ring files and try to play them I get a notice that the license has expired. </p><p></p><p>My thought was "I paid 3 bucks for 20 seconds of a badly compressed version of a song that I already own...which only cost me 99 cents btw, and now 2 years later I have to re-buy that 20 seconds?" Guess I should have read that 20 pages of boilerplate...on my 1.5" phone screen...a little more closely.</p><p></p><p>This has happened to me with dozens of legal digital copy files from purchased Blu Rays, one day they just go dead right on your computer.</p><p></p><p>This is when you look up and see the pirates laugh. Stolen content never goes out of date, doesn't get remote killed and does not lock you out of a movie/game when the seller has server problems or goes out of business.</p><p></p><p>Face it, people playing by the rules get kicked in the junk all the time and we just sort of take it. To say this sort of behavior can't, won't or has not happened is just silly. Half of us are playing on Sony equipment, the kind and gentle folks who brought you a root kit virus on legal music CD's a few years ago.</p><p></p><p>All my stuff is legal, I support game makers I want to see continue making stuff is the main reason why. But there is also that I don't want the storm troopers to come knock down my door and take me to rapey-time prison for 20 years because I bit torrented Game of Thrones. So we are stuck in this "Brazil" like world where you must play by the rules or fear overkill retaliation BUT while playing by the rules are subject to petty, infuriating behavior by the companies you support.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Actionball, post: 11773, member: 527"] And none of what you said is contrary to my post. It has happened, continues to happen and the technology exists to do it. For all the big cases like Amazon and the overly ironic 1984 deletion there are a million little ones. Before I had a smart phone and could make my own ringtone clips I had about 7 paid rings on my old Verizon phone. One day my phone goes back to default and when I check on the ring files and try to play them I get a notice that the license has expired. My thought was "I paid 3 bucks for 20 seconds of a badly compressed version of a song that I already own...which only cost me 99 cents btw, and now 2 years later I have to re-buy that 20 seconds?" Guess I should have read that 20 pages of boilerplate...on my 1.5" phone screen...a little more closely. This has happened to me with dozens of legal digital copy files from purchased Blu Rays, one day they just go dead right on your computer. This is when you look up and see the pirates laugh. Stolen content never goes out of date, doesn't get remote killed and does not lock you out of a movie/game when the seller has server problems or goes out of business. Face it, people playing by the rules get kicked in the junk all the time and we just sort of take it. To say this sort of behavior can't, won't or has not happened is just silly. Half of us are playing on Sony equipment, the kind and gentle folks who brought you a root kit virus on legal music CD's a few years ago. All my stuff is legal, I support game makers I want to see continue making stuff is the main reason why. But there is also that I don't want the storm troopers to come knock down my door and take me to rapey-time prison for 20 years because I bit torrented Game of Thrones. So we are stuck in this "Brazil" like world where you must play by the rules or fear overkill retaliation BUT while playing by the rules are subject to petty, infuriating behavior by the companies you support. [/QUOTE]
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