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The anti-censorship comments here of course resonate with me, but I'm curious about the legality of this. Spotify advertised Rogan and sold paid subscriptions.
by bitcurious 5y ago
The anti-censorship comments here of course resonate with me, but I'm curious about the legality of this. Spotify advertised Rogan and sold paid subscriptions. Now they've unilaterally removed the ability to listen from millions of paying customers, at least some of whom subscribed exclusively for the purpose of listening to JRE. Do these customers have no recourse?
- Gigachad 5y agoCancel your subscription? You never paid for permanent access.
- drak0n1c 5y agoUnfortunately I fear we'll have to wait until web3 enables some sort of DRM-replacing copy-supporting NFTs for song/podcast/game/etc copy ownership rights. Legally the major publishers, platforms, and stores have license clauses allowing them to revoke their hosted access to digital media you "bought", so the alternative might be decentralized copyright and file hosting.
- ViViDboarder 5y agoYou don’t buy rights to anything when you use a subscription service like Spotify. You’re paying for the right to stream things in their current catalog. Buying perpetual rights to content is possible with the current web. I buy DRM free MP3s and have been for decades.
- mongol 5y agoCertainly they have put in words about this in the fine print.
- slenk 5y agoI'm sure it is in their terms that they can remove anything whenever they want. They do it to music all the time.