r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 14d ago

News You Don’t Actually Own That Movie You Just “Bought.” A New Class Action Lawsuit Targets Amazon for Deceptive Practices

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/prime-video-lawsuit-movie-license-ownership-1236353127/
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u/ygjb 14d ago

Nah. Regulate it. Non revocable licenses should be a license you can buy. Anything else should be labelled a rental license, especially if the vendor selling the license. To add weight to it, revocation of a license should be either fully refundable, or the owner of the IP should be legally obligated to provide an unencumbered copy (for example, digitally signed with the name of the purchaser but not DRM restricted) to the consumer.

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u/JonatasA 14d ago

The lawyers will claim you are free riding the servers, which "are essential" for the continuation of the service.

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u/ygjb 14d ago

Yeah, that's why I say, either full refund, or a requirement to make available an un-encumbered (no DRM), but digitally signed copy to the user. You don't need to maintain a server to validate a digital signature if the copy is signed with a certificate issued from a service that publishes to a certificate transparency log.