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Google Video Store Shutting Down

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the calling-it-quits dept.

babbling writes "Google is going to close the Google Video Store, leaving users who bought videos that used Digital Restrictions Management without their purchases. The users of Google Video Store will be compensated with Google Checkout credit, but it seems they will be out of luck if they don't happen to be Google Checkout users."

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  1. Re:Once again... by nospam007 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Did they operate also in the Western European market? The EU has laws requiring the owners of a closed down business to continue to provide support for several years, and the non-EU Western European countries have consumer protection laws even stricter than that (the expected lifetime of the product), which would come into play here. Continued support for the DRM part would be expected.
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    Usually such companies would be of the 'limited responsability' type, where the most that people could get is the 15000$ guarantee that the company has deposited as guarantee, and that's about zilch.