<story><title>Florida prisons sued for erasing $11M worth of prisoner music purchases</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/20/18233317/florida-department-of-corrections-class-action-lawsuit-william-demler-jpay-mp3-song-access</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>est31</author><text>Sadly, disowning the customer is very common in the new age of digital copyright enforcement.&lt;p&gt;For example, your itunes collection is specific to you. If you die, it&amp;#x27;s deleted and is not transfered to your heirs. Similarly, Amazon is removing any books you purchased from your kindles if the seller sold them illegally. Also, if you violate any of their terms of service, they often delete the entire collection as well.&lt;p&gt;IMO there should be a law requiring digital licenses of any content to be fungible similar to physical copies. You should be allowed to transfer them to another service, even if the service stops existing, or they believe you breached some contract.&lt;p&gt;This would make licenses even more fungible than bank money is today: right now if a bank goes bankrupt, you might not see any money in your accounts, even though it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;your&lt;/i&gt; money and you are no investor or anything. It&amp;#x27;s because every bank is &amp;quot;minting&amp;quot; it&amp;#x27;s own currency. There are models which are different where you have a central bank handing out digital money to the banks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m-p-3</author><text>This is why I do not feel any guilt in acquiring a DRM-free copy of media I purchased digitally (not talking about subscription-based lease like Spotify, etc).&lt;p&gt;If I bought a eBook or any kind of media without an &lt;i&gt;expiration date&lt;/i&gt;, I want to be in full control. I will buy first from DRM-free stores like Bandcamp or GOG.</text></comment>
<story><title>Florida prisons sued for erasing $11M worth of prisoner music purchases</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/20/18233317/florida-department-of-corrections-class-action-lawsuit-william-demler-jpay-mp3-song-access</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>est31</author><text>Sadly, disowning the customer is very common in the new age of digital copyright enforcement.&lt;p&gt;For example, your itunes collection is specific to you. If you die, it&amp;#x27;s deleted and is not transfered to your heirs. Similarly, Amazon is removing any books you purchased from your kindles if the seller sold them illegally. Also, if you violate any of their terms of service, they often delete the entire collection as well.&lt;p&gt;IMO there should be a law requiring digital licenses of any content to be fungible similar to physical copies. You should be allowed to transfer them to another service, even if the service stops existing, or they believe you breached some contract.&lt;p&gt;This would make licenses even more fungible than bank money is today: right now if a bank goes bankrupt, you might not see any money in your accounts, even though it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;your&lt;/i&gt; money and you are no investor or anything. It&amp;#x27;s because every bank is &amp;quot;minting&amp;quot; it&amp;#x27;s own currency. There are models which are different where you have a central bank handing out digital money to the banks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ascorbic</author><text>&amp;gt; This would make licenses even more fungible than bank money is today: right now if a bank goes bankrupt, you might not see any money in your accounts, even though it&amp;#x27;s your money and you are no investor or anything. It&amp;#x27;s because every bank is &amp;quot;minting&amp;quot; it&amp;#x27;s own currency. There are models which are different where you have a central bank handing out digital money to the banks.&lt;p&gt;Not true. Banks aren&amp;#x27;t minting their own money, and your money is insured. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fdic.gov&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fdic.gov&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>