Movie/record industry rep says that you shouldn't expect to be able to play your media for as long as you own it - Boing Boing

Oh Goodie. This will fly well.

My books will self destruct? My albums will die?
We let them move off of vinyl and now this?
Talk about rewriting the history of my right to own an album or CD or book or magazine?

I really gotta say, this is the kind of stupid that just makes you laugh. Right after you throw up on your shoes. You know, maybe these people should worry about making content people would want to keep longer than a year. Movies suck. Pop music sucks. TV sucks... This asswipe sucks.

I need some happy banjo music now...

Movie/record industry rep says that you shouldn't expect to be able to play your media for as long as you own it - Boing Boing:

"'We reject the view,' he writes in a letter to the top legal advisor at the Copyright Office, 'that copyright owners and their licensees are required to provide consumers with perpetual access to creative works. No other product or service providers are held to such lofty standards. No one expects computers or other electronics devices to work properly in perpetuity, and there is no reason that any particular mode of distributing copyrighted works should be required to do so.'"