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  • TallonMetroid@lemmy.worldtoStar Wars@lemmy.worldI like Star Wars
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    6 months ago

    To add on to this, having people complain, while not good exactly, is a state that can be worked with. It means that the engagement is still there. Like, to put this in the context of D+, it means that people are still watching the shows to know what to complain about. You won’t see me complaining about Star Wars anymore, for instance, because I stopped caring at all after TLJ. There’s so much other stuff out there that I don’t see any point in signing up for D+ to watch Star Wars, and ultimately that hurts Disney more than me continuing to watch while bitching about it.





  • With the obvious caveat that IANAL, I think there’s a distinction to be made between the physical medium that an IP is distributed on, if any, and the IP itself. Like, when you buy a movie on DVD you obviously don’t own the IP. But strictly speaking, you don’t even own that particular copy of the movie as encoded on the disc you bought. But you do own the disc itself, which just happens to have a copy of the movie on it. So while a publisher can always pull their IPs, and make it illegal for people to distribute them, they can’t come and take the discs that you already legally own.