alphacyberrangerFunimation To Shut Down Completely On April 2; Deleting Purchased Digital Copies
NoLifeKingDownload.
ZenjalAn jus as one piece is kicking off not only it’s final saga but more of its successful live action. The Great Pirate Era is really upon us!
Exactly. It’s time to take back your data and OWN YOUR SHIT people. Local Host and Mass Store.
Semi-Hemi-DemigodAlso backup
scorpionixNo backup? No mercy!
TheInsane42Local and off-site. (Not cloud)
This is why I never bought a subscription to these services.
ares35i got suckered once on a different site that got shut down. never again.
Subscription is pretty different from buying. Pretty disingenuous to try to talk about them the same way. There’s no expectation of keeping access when you end a subscription.
I see patreon subscriptions all the time where you can subscribe, download all the content, and not subscribe again the next month.
I fail to see why just because it’s a big corporation that the expectation is different.
Do you really think all of Netflix’s catalog is really only worth $15, or whatever the cheapest ad-free plan is?
We need to stop calling it “purchasing”
Long term rental or at-will ownership for US people.
We need to prosecute companies (and their executives, personally) who fraudulently misrepresent it as “purchasing.”
CrowI think in legal terms it’s even called licensing.
If paying for digital content isn’t ownership, then downloading it for free isn’t piracy.
JoeKroganIf anyone has this stuff it would be good to add them to i2p too.
so they’re going to refund all the people that purchased this stuff, right?
I’m pretty sure it all goes to Crunchyroll. I don’t think you’re actually losing anything, just having it moved to a different platform
MereoBuying digital copy of stuff that you cannot download is an oxymoron. It only makes sense when you subscribe to a service.
So steam, basically? Less likely that they’ll be shutting down anytime soon, but still.
Not a good comparison. With Steam, you download the games to your computer. If Valve ever went out of business, they could unDRM the games, or you could crack them.
Either way, you download the games onto your computer. That’s not the case with Funimation.
That’s why it’s better to buy from gog
Something Burger 🍔Why? You also buy licenses from GOG, despite their and their shills’ best efforts to make you believe otherwise.
It’s completely DRM free.
You download the game and that’s it, you can run it from your computer forever
wizardbeardThe only difference with Steam is that you have to crack the game files, and Steam DRM is notably easy to bypass. Either way, once you have the files you have it.
Is it? I should look into that
wolfshadowheartSteamDRM on GitHub
Thanks!
Vendetta9076Whether its “allowed” or not, I assume you I own every file from my steam library.
radixSony deleting purchased items from a person’s library?
Shocker.
There needs to be a registry service that allows people to show they have a license for any digital media we purchase.
ryannathansAlmost like a decentralised system with non fungible tokens for licences, that you could even trade between individuals without involvement of the rights owner
The reason that’s never going to happen is because it would be the cause of massive profit losses for digital companies.
Capitalism makes the rules.
Another is because for a decentralized ownership service to hold any ground it must be either backed by a (centralized) court of law or hold the full service you’re buying. Otherwise what’s stopping a hosting platform to remove the service you bought with your nft from their platform?
Indeed. Needs to be run by an independent non-profit organisation.
Like the government?
Not ONE government, but I’d accept something that lots of governments sign up to and share responsibility for. E.g. funding and making sure it is not giving any one country preferential treatment.
Why would there be massive losses licencing media properly?
A black market would arise. Finished with your show? Get your money back. NFTs aren’t connected to identity like that.
They could never pull a stunt like what they’re doing now and make people rebuy things.
Advertising opportunity would essentially fall to zero. Ever notice how ads play before and after streaming services nowadays?
A subscription model wouldn’t work under this system. Subscriptions pull in a higher net than single selling products.
This system would be overturned in its entirety by something like this, and that’s why the people making money and holding the rights aren’t going to let it happen.
Sounds great. Maybe we could even scam the users for even more money.
Blockchain? Lmfao.
blockchain is great technology, even if people have used it to scam people with worthless nfts already…
That’s the only good thing that came out of that nonsense. Rich people getting scammed. Just wishef it wasn’t also your dear uncle Sam who now lost his life savings to a fucking nazi ape.
tell me you have no idea how anything works without telling me you have no idea how anything works
Maybe tell blockchain to stop hogging our electricity and water supply and I’ll look into how this completely unnecessary thing works. At this point I may as well watch an M night Shyamalan movie. Just as unnecessary and densely stupid.
and the current banking system is environmentally friendly?
once again you know nothing and speak from ignorance
once again you know nothing and speak from ignorance
Far, far, FAR more efficient per transaction lmao. Like miles and miles ahead.
Go watch some Folding Ideas or something lmao
I thought the blockchain stans all went to suck AI dick but here you are still riding the blockchain lol. Pathetic.
lol… no not even kinda close
Cope lmao
Cope lmao
Funnily enough this is the only legitmate use for this technology, but will never happen because capitalists will never let it.
Given the number of crypto bros sobbing that someone right clicked their monkey, I don’t think the copyright holders are going to be down with that.
That’s not remotely close to how it would work lol
Sooooo… Ultraviolet?
What the hell is that thumbnail?
DarkenThree large heads with purple hoodies laughing with their large mouths at a fearful little man with Crunchyroll and Funimation logos side to side overlaying the man’s head
Most average article thumbnail of the modern age
TurtlePowerLaughing? More like yelling.