| Title | Apple Literally Steals a Man's Private Music Collection | |
| Date | Friday May 06 2016, @03:42AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the backups:-early,-often,-offline,-AND-off-site dept. | ||
"The software is functioning as intended," said Amber.
"Wait," I asked, "so it's supposed to delete my personal files from my internal hard drive without asking my permission?"
"Yes," she replied.
Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.
[...] For about ten years, I've been warning people, "hang onto your media. One day, you won't buy a movie. You'll buy the right to watch a movie, and that movie will be served to you. If the companies serving the movie don't 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."
This has apparently been making the rounds on IRC.
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