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Originally Posted by crockett
Surfers need to understand they are buying "access" to the content for as long as they pay their membership fee.
Do online games like WOW allow you to continue to play their game if you stop paying?
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Blizzard doesn't stop you from connecting to private servers
http://www.xtremetop100.com/world-of-warcraft
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Does Xbox live let you play if you don't pay?
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neither does microsoft
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Does Netflix keep sending you DVD's in the mail if you cancel your subscription?
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it a service of delivering content PHYSICALLY to you
that the service you are paying for so of course if you stop paying for it you lose that service
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Does cable TV allow you to keep watching if you no longer pay?
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if you recorded/saved a copy of a show you paid for
you can absolutely watch it again and again
cable does nothing from stopping you doing that
they only stop you from getting new shows (think new updates from your site)
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I never understood why surfers think that they are buying the "right" to own the content vs use it.
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you see there was this case called the betamax case
where the big bad content producers made this claim that they were providing a limited licience to view "at a specific time on a specific date" and nothing more, and the supreme court ruled that people had a right to shift their viewing time to whenever they wanted.
I have never understood why site owners try and claim "rights" to their content that the copyright act and the courts have already said were not valid.