Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

Posted Jan 28, 2021 15:15 UTC (Thu) by kpfleming (subscriber, #23250)
In reply to: Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary by pizza
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I know it's a divergence, but 'while simultaneously saying things like "own your copy today" in advertising copy' is such an important point.

At the same time that the major US content producers leverage the DMCA as a cudgel, and push the RIAA to act on their behalf, those same content producers loudly proclaim that you can 'own' a movie by purchasing a copy. The content delivery networks will even advertise that you can 'own' a movie by purchasing an indefinite-term access token to be able to play the movie from their service. Of course these are both BS, there is no 'ownership' involved in either transaction, and the license being granted in the transaction is revocable at any time and terminable at the will of the content provider/producer with no notice requirement and no recourse available to the licensee.