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‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

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*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be able to access the films and TV shows they had bought. *

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
Git	Popular version control system, primarily for code
IP	Internet Protocol
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NUC	Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
Plex	Brand of media server package
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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