Man sues Apple for terminating Apple ID with $24K worth of content
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Whether it's Facebook nuking all your Oculus Quest content because you were at a pro-democracy Hong Kong protest, or Apple remotely deleting all your music and apps because their fuzzy-logic automation incorrectly correlated the pattern of your network traffic with illegal activity, there has to be some recourse — and in the US, that recourse should obviously be the courts.
It take a bit more effort, but prevents the store from pulling an Amazon on your purchased ebooks like they did with 1984 a while back.
Or may be we could go back to the simplest form. Physical Media. I think there is something to be learn from the Japanese on how they value something physical.
Everyone would have their own DNS domain (this was in a science fiction reality where DNSSec was very secure).
That DNS domain would be exposed by their firewall, it would serve a single static domain.
Something like MX records would be setup for simple auth services and one-time payment transactions.
So when I needed to login to a site instead of talking to facebook, the site would talk to the root servers which would hook them up with my domain on my router.
The for a credit card transaction I could authz a transaction between the remote website, my router with my information and the credit card payment provider, so that the website never saw any details.
This would be wrapped with a service so that the home user never hand managed their DNS zone similarly to the way NAS appliances often run linux and NFS without people needing to poke into it.
But it needs to not be written by a FAANG company and needs to piggyback on open standards. Maybe DNS isn't the exact right tool, but it needs to look something very much like that with a hierarchy of open registrars.
OpenID is kind of close to the start of that, but I don't like the way it piggybacks on e-mail addresses and I think it needs to be its own thing and simpler to manage.
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(/s, obviously)
What's different about the Japanese in this regard?
But it _is_ Facebook, one of the most profoundly unethical companies of consequence, which has caused harm across the world at immense scale.
I don’t like Apple’s App Store or Nintendo’s region locking or other things like that, but I don’t have literal _moral_ qualms about buying their devices.
I really do, with Facebook. But the Oculus Quest 2 hardware is so incredibly good — so far ahead of anything else available — that I do buy it so my kids (and I) can use it (with my own FB account, which I have specifically for this perfect).
Depriving my kids of the insanely rad tech while it is contemporary and so superior to other competitors, for me presents its own moral dilemma.
So I strike this uneasy balance. But it does make me feel very uncomfortable.
I'm not trying to make any moral judgements for you, but I did for myself. I sold my Quest 2 within weeks of buying it, for a Valve Index instead. I wasn't even using my own Facebook account as I don't have one, but I was literally waking up out of guilt for owning a product I have serious ethical problems with.
You could even buy a used Valve Index to save money if that's a priority!
(Edited to add). So I think that Apple could actually benefit here by losing this suit. It needs to be in court. Such a foundation is more solid than a gesture of goodwill that could be go the other way tomorrow.
I'll bet you all my broken iPod Touches that they absolutely didn't, but even did an analysis on how many people are scared by this. The answer was "basically nobody". It's not the companies offering these models who are short sighted, it's the people taking them up.
It's scary to think that if you do something wrong (willingly or unwillingly) you could lose EVERYTHING tied to that account.
I can't imagine what nightmare it might be to try to reset your other accounts such as bills, banking, gov accounts tied to your Gmail. On top of everything else you might have tied to it, email and file wise.
Backup on cloud, backup on hardware, mirror the backups!
> The Committee is investigating the application of an individual entrepreneur to block his account in the Google My Business application. In this case, Google did not provide the Committee with the requested information for more than a year, which is an aggravating circumstance.
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One of the more bizarre things I learned is they were somehow one of the most reasonable players as far as "digital content" went
If you purchased (not rented) a movie through your cable box, but then left Comcast as a customer. You would be sent your entire library of purchases on either DVD or Blu Ray (for SD and HD respectively) at no charge
Music is easy to buy DRM free.
Movies and TV shows... not so much.
Music: Bandcamp
For movies the only viable option I haveis the grey area of buying the physical media and strip the DRM for your personal use.
I've only bought exactly 1 episode of a TV show from Apple. Because of DRM. If I knew I could remove it easily, I would buy many many shows and episodes.
I'm not against paying for content, I'm against DRM.
I presume it's all out there DRM free, on The Pirate Bay or whatever. I have no interest in that, I'm more than willing to pay for content.
The problem is that people invest in these accounts. They buy the right to some content and that is taken away from them. In some cases they also invest socially in the account, like an email address.
I don't think companies can have it both ways. They can either not ban accounts like this, or they can ban accounts and refund any purchased licences, and provide the ability to transfer data out and set up redirections as necessary (an auto-responder for email perhaps?).
Funny how they never actually say "we can't comment due to law X paragraph Y/contract clause Z" - they just say nothing, and let us assume they have a legitimate reason.
Isn't it "lazy", in the sense that you must attempt to access on the local computer before it downloads?
I rely on iCloud for nightly backups, but have iTunes backups here and there whenever I upgrade.
I think it's high time I looked at a non-Apple backup for my iCloud Photo Library though.
Many providers perform some kind of scan and if the AI thinks you are storing forbidden content your account is banned without recourse and you have no access to your photos.