Hmmmm... interesting approach. Is the license "permission" to watch it from sony during the duration of their contract, or do I "own" the movie, but not how it's presented through Sony, in this case.

If it's the latter, copy/rip the media.

A short aside:

I have a fairly large audible account. I noticed about 10 years ago, I still have books in my queue, but I'm unable to download/listen to them. Audible explained the licence to me, told me that it should appear back in my "library" eventually but might take years (and maybe never), but here, have a free "credit" (which is basically, another free book).

Had that happen about 6 times over the last 10 years (the most recent was about a year ago. Each time, I got a credit -- and with the exception of the most recent, the book re-appeared in my library. If the pattern continues, I should have it back in my library within 2 years from when it was removed.

I can live with that.

"an awful lot of DVDs only last a decade or two."

If only there was some way to take the data on a DVD and move it to a computer. Maybe "brute force it". We could use the term "rip"!

Then backups with redundancy would turn a decade or two in to a generation or ten. ...if only...

You mean, the people who are willing to ride a piece of driftwood across the freakin' ocean because they'd rather live here than in their communist hellhole? Okay.

Time for some C.S. Lewis.

The big problem of our civilization and age right now isn't that we are going to get too harsh or guard too much against people who rip off stores.

To actually make a study conclusion that is truly solid, you would need a RCT (Randomized Control Trial) - this is impossible for such a hypothesis.

A confounding issue issue such as the amount of sunlight a person gets per day has been shown to affect mitochondrial health - 15 minutes per days makes a big difference. If you work inside, there is an observed difference in health outcomes based on the spectrum of the artificial light (full-spectrum being healthier). Did they control for these affects? How could they possibly do so. Did they control for percentage of processed food fiber intake, serum Vit D levels, glucose and sodium sensitivity, liver and kidney function, ad infinitum. We don't even have an accepted gold standard for measuring sodium sensitivity (that I am aware of).

I'm not saying researchers were dishonest, I'm saying that observational studies are very difficult to be coerced into truly clinical significance, much less something that would be considered proved in other areas of science. Human behavior and biology is very complex and messy. A shame considering how nice it would be to develop reliable answers.

Um ... that kind of program literally is socialism.

Now, you may like socialism ... or this particular kind of socialist program ... but that doesn't magically make it not be socialism.

Especially interesting for these who don't understand and appreciate what they still (somewhat) have.

Y'all may think that you like communism, or (other peoples' exotic) eastern theocracy, but if they get the upper hand, you will find out much too late that you do not really like them at all ...

(Looks for silver lining) ... er, well, refreshingly honest, I guess?

Possibly, though their names, citizenship status, etc. would be helpful to know that.

I think we've identified the harmful bit right there.