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Comment Re:Your money, your responsibility (Score 1) 28

Everything other than software is clear on when you will be "kicked out."

Let's say theaters change the terms. Now you will be kicked out randomly, or at some theaters, with a 9 minute warning. This is different than what you are used to happening when you buy a theater ticket, but it's the way things are done now. Time passes, and it's the way things have been done for years. So you pay for your ticket, and in the middle of enjoying a movie, the movie stops, or you're given the 9 minute warning.

Can you get a refund? No, you agreed to the terms. Can you come back later and watch the end of the movie? No. In fact, no one can watch the movie again ever. It won't be preserved for future viewings. But you really wanted to see how this movie ends! Too bad, should have come earlier. If you came for the first showing, that's just tough luck, happens sometimes.

Don't like it? Well just don't buy a ticket from a theater that does this! Except, they all do it now. Everyone isn't going to stop seeing movies so even if you stop, it's not going to make a difference. And if everyone did stop seeing movies, theaters would go out of business and you wouldn't be able to see new movies anyway. So, one way or the other, all movies will be unavailable eventually.

Maybe you're okay with that - we still have all the previous movies, and they can't come into your house and take away what you already have. (They can void your license to view what you already have, rendering viewing the media you purchased piracy, but I don't think many people would let that stop them.) But I don't know, I think we lose something when we can't make new art (which movies and games are forms of) available to people and preserve it for future people. Wouldn't it be a shame if today we couldn't view classical art and listen to classical music?

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