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Comment by encom

1 year ago

>buy

Nothing is for sale at the Apple TV "Store". You pay for a license to stream a piece of content, that lasts until Apple or the content owner decides to revoke it.

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walterbell  1 year ago

Has any Apple TV purchase been revoked?

  • dwighttk  1 year ago

    Not sure…

    I have a bundle of Downton Abbey that is no longer for sale on iTunes and I can play it, but (for a while, they may have fixed it) at the end of an episode you had to navigate to the next episode by selecting the show and scrolling horizontally through every single episode. Technically possible but very irritating.

    (Funny thing: I was watching the show when the switch happened… I watched two or three with the obvious play next episode in series behavior and then it suddenly stopped working… apple support finally told me it seems like it was related to it being taken off in favor of a bundle with the film included.)

taylodl  1 year ago

Meh. Videotape wears out. Video discs break. Books yellow and age and rot. No content you have ever bought lasts forever.

  • cesarb  1 year ago

    > Books yellow and age and rot. No content you have ever bought lasts forever.

    Many libraries all over the world have books which have lasted for centuries, far longer than a single person's lifetime. The books I bought as a child can last longer than my own body. That's close enough to "lasting forever" for most practical purposes.

    • taylodl  1 year ago

      Centuries-old books have had special care to preserve them.

      If you want your personal books to last most of your lifetime, then there needs to be a modicum of care taken, which isn't always possible, especially while you're in transit and moving from one place and into another. How many books have been lost that way?

      The whole point was someone lamenting digital license may not last forever (though Apple's has, so far) and I'm just reminding everyone that physical media doesn't last forever either.

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