{"id":5848,"date":"2016-06-08T19:05:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T19:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2016-05-23T19:07:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T19:07:27","slug":"linked-apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/06\/08\/linked-apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.vellumatlanta.com\/2016\/05\/04\/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously\/\">via Vellum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>For about ten years, I\u2019ve been warning people, \u201chang onto your media. One day, you won\u2019t buy a movie. You\u2019ll buy the right to watch a movie, and that movie will be served to you. If the companies serving the movie don\u2019t want you to see it, or they want to change something, they will have the power to do so. They can alter history, and they can make you keep paying for things that you formerly could have bought. Information will be a utility rather than a possession. Even information that you yourself have created will require unending, recurring payments just to access.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When giving the above warning, however, even in my most Orwellian paranoia I never could have dreamed that the content holders, like Apple, would also reach into your computer and take away what you already owned. If Taxi Driver is on Netflix, Netflix doesn\u2019t come to your house and steal your Taxi Driver DVD. But that\u2019s where we\u2019re headed. When it comes to music, Apple is already there.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t know anything about this issue. i know it\u2019s been heavily discussed online but I haven\u2019t lost any music as I store everything locally and don\u2019t use any Apple subscription services. But, this remark is valid. Today it might be Apple but Amazon pulled books from kindle customers off their devices a few years ago without warning. Those users were reimbursed but they lost content they thought they owned forever. Corporations can\u2019t break into your house and steal your CD or Book collections. They can now with digital lockers. You should be afraid and you should take precautions to keep that from happening.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of content you buy digitally, if you read the fine-print, you don\u2019t own. You are granted a lifetime license to that content for your payment but you are not the owner. Much different than when you bought a CD. Good luck passing on your digital DRM copies of anything you\u2019ve bought online to your kids. Your Kindle collection can\u2019t be willed to another person.<\/p>\n<p>Something to think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Vellum: For about ten years, I\u2019ve been warning people, \u201chang onto your media. 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