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> You cant just cut off a release an expect everybody to stop experiencing it.

Yes, you can. You own the product, you may choose to stop selling it.

You also can’t mandate what formats a publisher makes their media available on.



> Yes, you can. You own the product, you may choose to stop selling it.

"Stop selling it" isn't the same as making everybody "stop experiencing it". A publisher can choose to stop selling more copies, but they can't undo what they've already sold, and they have limited powers to control what people do with the copies they previously bought, and those powers have an expiration date—which may need to be moved closer to the present.




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