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### Jeff Geerling - Forget spaceships, I just want my music // The big media companies want to redefine what it means to purchase content. They want everything to be a rental, even if you pay full price. That's dumb

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> A couple weeks ago ... I found the album on my phone and noticed the songs were all grayed out I tapped one and nothing just this notice "this song is not currently available in your country or region". Well that's weird I pay for Apple music [...] I did find the ladybug music website and on that website they have a shop "Great I can just buy the CDs and support the artist directly and..." - no apparently ladybug music is now an app so I downloaded the app. Long story short I created an account and found out you either have to fly out to LA and join one of the in-person kids music courses or pay 3,000 bucks in licensing fees to get access to any of the songs. ... There's literally no way to buy the music online anymore. Now this isn't the first time I've seen a song disappear from Apple music and this kind of thing happens on Spotify and other streaming services too. I can't get too mad because I never actually bought those songs directly I just rented them. That's the model for video streaming too like on Netflix. Even though it's super annoying to have shows and music disappear - I mean I am renting so it's not like I have a right to anything but that's just streaming. Luckily you can also buy digital movies and music and you get to keep it right? Right? Enshittification has reached New Heights as Sony just decided to yoink over a thousand Seasons - that's right, Seasons not episodes of discovery shows from the PlayStation store but they're not just removing them from the store they're removing them from people's libraries! So if you paid full retail price for MythBusters on your PlayStation too bad you can't watch it anymore that is unless you go over and set up a new subscription to yet another completely unnecessary and broken streaming service for Warner Brothers. The term for this is Enshittification. ... If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing. I made a whole video about how I manage all my video content on my NAS. I run software called jelly Fin and I've ripped hundreds of movies and thousands of TV episodes over the years my family can enjoy every movie and TV show I've bought now and forever - but most people don't do that and even for crazies like me it's getting harder more and more TV series and movies are going stream only, meaning the only way to ever watch it is to subscribe to yet another broken and temporary streaming service. You'd think as the years went on society's access to Media would get easier and better but instead backwards thinking execs in Hollywood and the music industry keep backpedaling making it harder for you to actually watch the content they produce. ... They're committed to being so anti-consumer by killing off any semblance of ownership. ... I still don't officially endorse pirating content but I mean if there's literally no other way to view the content that you already paid for who am I to judge. ... DRM is the enabler of all the horrible scummy business practices that lead to so much E-Waste ... If you crack DRM to truly own the things you already paid for yeah I don't got a problem with that. Forget spaceships flying to Mars I just want my music. Until next time, I'm Jeff Geerling