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Originally Posted by Froide
That last point is interesting, because it seems difficult to enforce. Presumably, anyone who can access the devices and storage media containing a deceased person's digital content can continue to access that content, indefinitely. Can't they? Or do the content providers, upon learning of a customer's death (e.g., via a notice from the credit company registered to the deceased's media account) revoke the rights? But then, of course, anyone with access to such an account could update said account with another credit card and keep on truckin'. Of course, freebies acquired from sites that don't require a credit card account (e.g., comiXology, Feedbooks, Gutenberg) would never be the wiser.
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It's true that one could keep an account going. But this is certainly against the licence terms of many retailers. And none of them will allow splitting or amagamation of accounts. Fifty years down the road, will people be happy keeping track of several different account?
I can't see any good resolution to these problems without legislation.