Subj : Re: Cloud vs Physical
To   : Ogg
From : Warpslide
Date : Wed Feb 07 2024 03:04:56

On Wednesday February 07 2024, Ogg said the following...

 N>> [...] iTunes took back music on my devices.

 Og> How does that work? I have many purchased iTunes tunes and they
 Og> all work just fine.

Apple has faced some class action lawsuits in the US over this:
https://9to5mac.com/2021/10/20/itunes-purchased-content-removal/

"The complaint further notes that "when a licensing agreement terminates for whatever reason, Apple isrequiredto pull the Digital Content from the consumers' Purchased Folder and it does so without prior warningto the consumer"."


So if a customer purchases a song and keeps it "in the cloud" to stream whenever they like, this track candisappear without notice.  Now if when you purchase the song, download it at the time of purchase & keep thefile on your own computer, they can't take that back or delete it as purchased tracks are DRM free.  Howeverif you go back to download it again at a later time & Apple has lost the rights, it won't be in your purchasehistory.

I've had this happen to me on 7Digital:
https://postimg.cc/Mc2LSP11

Lucky for me I downloaded these FLAC files and still have them, but I won't be able to re-download in thefuture if I happen to loose them.


Jay

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