{"id":32264,"date":"2021-04-23T15:14:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T19:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32264"},"modified":"2021-06-07T11:13:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T15:13:49","slug":"apple-sued-for-removing-purchased-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/23\/apple-sued-for-removing-purchased-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Sued for Removing Purchased Content"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Hellerman<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

You know all those times you “bought” movies on iTunes? Well, because of the way Apple licenses films from studios, you never really own them. You actually have rented them at a higher fee, for a longer time.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

David Andino is the lead plaintiff in this case. He alleges Apple reserves the right to terminate access to any movie you “purchase.” And that they do this on regular occasions. He wants them to stop telling people they have “bought” things when they really have not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Eriq Gardner<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This week, U.S. District Court Judge John Mendez made clear he isn’t ready to buy into Apple’s view of consumer expectations in the digital marketplace.<\/p>

“Apple contends that ‘[n]o reasonable consumer would believe’ that purchased content would remain on the iTunes platform indefinitely,” writes Mendez. “But in common usage, the term ‘buy’ means to acquire possession over something. It seems plausible, at least at the motion to dismiss stage, that reasonable consumers would expect their access couldn’t be revoked.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Damien Petrilli<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Yup. And some of the movies I got were removes sometimes.<\/p>

Now I track the number of movies in my account to check which ones.<\/p>

Apple should send at least an email to have the time to save them but they don’t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

And in another case, a customer lost more than just a few movies<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The complaint, filed on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, goes after an Apple services clause that states a user with a terminated Apple ID cannot access media content that they’ve purchased.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

The plaintiff in the case, Matthew Price, reportedly spent nearly $25,000 on content attached to an Apple ID. When Apple terminated Price’s Apple ID for an alleged violation of its terms and conditions, Price lost access to all of that content.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

The lawsuit doesn’t specify why Price’s account was terminated. However, it does claim that Apple shut down the Apple ID “without notice, explanation, policy or process.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n