What happens to your UV library when you die?

[atlantajoseph]

This is one of those questions I think about from time to time and I have never found a good answer online including at UV and VUDU.

When you kick the bucket what's the deal with your UV library? Can you just leave instructions for someone to change the e-mail address and password? What if you forget to do that, and is it technically legal?

UV really should have an "in case of emergency" ownership transfer option or something.

[Groot]

That's been an emerging topic on a lot of things recently given our tendency to move more and more digital. Until the services address this concern, it'd be up to the person to have a log list of emails/passwords for someone, or like some things they'd just archive out after so long.

[BluBonnet]

I suspect sooner or later this might have to be settled by the courts.

[moviebuffed]

I'm going to instruct VUDU to delete all digital movies. The only one that'll stay is the tv show "Six Feet Under".

[Evil]

It's probably not a bad idea to write significant digital info like that down and store it in a secure location with your other important documents. It might seem a bit silly to do so but without usernames and passwords, it is going to be very difficult or impossible for another person to gain access to those accounts. And that's assuming they even know what you have. It's not hard to think of things like movie and family photo collections that others might value and enjoy.

The digital services are probably not going to be too keen on things being passed down in this way. But legal or not, how are they going to know? The government has a lot of trouble telling who is dead and alive. Let alone Vudu which doesn't require any info verification.

[Peavey]

At least they all will be waiting for us in the cloud.

[TJLamb0518]

Originally Posted by Peavey

At least they all will be waiting for us in the cloud.

I was gonna say....why are we presuming Heaven has no WiFi?


although, I guess the "Other Place" would have more...ahem....HOTspots.

[tallrichard]

I had figured I would give my wife or daughter the log-in to my Vudu account and leave them continued use of my movies...

Is there a reason why this wouldn't work?

[steve_dave]

Google Bruce Willis iTunes...

Short version, Apple doesn't consider digital libraries personal property so he couldn't pass them to his kids in the event of his death. Lawyer said it was not technically illegal to give them the user name & password in the will.

Best to have a digital "will" with user name and passwords for your digital libraries and online accounts. Even the non social ones. Should Amazon or Best Buy be hacked after your death, you don't want your family fighting credit card charges.

[p w]

Originally Posted by tallrichard

I had figured I would give my wife or daughter the log-in to my Vudu account and leave them continued use of my movies...

Is there a reason why this wouldn't work?

There is no guarantee that UV outlives us, it could be gone by the end of 2017. While I'm a big digital adopter and I loathe buying physical media, I acknowledge I have buckets full of obsolete tech from the past two decades and I know there is no tech standard that lasts forever. Hoping UV outlives me, although, I suspect it won't.

[ChoppedUp]

My will says to scatter my ashes in my library. I'm hoping that's not illegal.

[Evil]

Originally Posted by ChoppedUp

My will says to scatter my ashes in my library. I'm hoping that's not illegal.

Your public library?

[ChoppedUp]

Originally Posted by Evil

Your public library?

No my digital library.

[Evil]

Originally Posted by ChoppedUp

No my digital library.