I hope you have some spinach handy. It’s heavier than you might think.Yggy GS2 is updated as OUT FOR DELIVERY by FedEx. I'll believe that when the driver knocks on the door asking for my signature and hands me the correct box.
Over the years people have complained about poor service from UPS and FedEx. Their customer service departments finally recognized there was a problem and have initiated a joint solution. The merger will be named FedUp.IIRC, there was once a day where FedEx was deemed superior to UPS. Those days seem to have faded far into the past.
How dare you toy with my emotions, FedEx!? You tell me my Yggy GS2 is in Dallas and set for Delivery on 12/11, then at 6PM on the day I stayed home to sign for the shipment you set the status to DELAYED/PENDING!! Damn you, FedEx!! Damn you to HADES!!
As a former college professor who taught Copyright law in the business school of San Jose State University, I must remind this august group that when you purchase music or video on any pre-recorded media including digital downloads, you never really "own" the content. What you've purchased is the limited use rights to the content and if the media is physical, the piece of plastic containing the material. The owner of the copyright can, in theory anyway, revoke those use rights at any time.
It's just that they are far, far, far less likely to take that sort of action with a CD or LP or whatever you've purchased than they are with a streaming service or radio station. And with streaming services they are much more likely to force them to offer lower-quality versions if they are not happy with the royalty payments they are receiving, regardless of what you think you have "paid for."
OK, ass-like professor attitude put back in the box where it belongs.
The rights for you to keep it legally they can take.
I never said "they" are "going to take" anything. I just said they could, legally, if they chose to. But what I also said is it is much more likely that content owners can change, revoke, or limit what is being streamed than what was contained on physical media or downloaded (although in the Discovery video case I cited earlier, the company removed content from owner's PlayStations that they had downloaded. PlayStation is, admittedly, a different sort of OS from a typical PC, but nonetheless the content owner pulled downloaded content off user's devices without their knowledge.)
It's just agonizing...waiting for the Yggy GS2. I've got her spot all ready to go in the rack (is it a girl or guy?), and brought my Bifrost 2/64 into my work office already.No spinach, but I've been on a daily dose of Anabolic Steroids since I ordered the Yggy. I fear that I may burst into an uncontrollable rage if it is not delivered today, however.
Ah yes, the good ole DMCA.
Now I can upload any CD to Apple Music ...... HaHa ....
My personal paranoia includes that this is part of the reason for the rise of streaming. Easy revenue source without physical media overhead and content control at the whim of the publishing houses.
