Technology

"effort to compensate" my ass.

I call it fraud.

It's just a long term licence to watch it

Welcome to the age where you own nothing! If it's digital and not accessible offline, on your own device, you can lose it on a company's whim. This is one of the major arguments for piracy: it's often the only way you can "own" digital content.

After over a decade of giving up on physical media, I'm now back to collecting it primarily because of this major issue with streaming services.

Get this stuff on actual DVD or bluray. Put it all in archival boxes if you dont have the space.

Ooorrrrrr you can play the video, and split the HDMI with a decoder box and record with something like a haupage recorder (records to usb flash)

Richard Stallman already talked about this Here is the article: https://stallman.org/amazon.html

You will own nothing and be happy about it!

Google is just as bad, trying to do the right thing and support the movies we love, and now Google has locked all my movies so only I can watch them. I can still load them on the telly in the lounge, but I specifically bought them to be shared amongst my kids, who now can't see them. They make it impossible to follow their rules. It's become impossible to buy digital. I'm tempted to go apple and try Apple store, for all my purchases. I just want it all in one place and to actually own what I purchase. They're talking out both sides of their mouth. On one hand they lambast you for taking a copy of something, but if you buy a copy they can take it away at any time and you don't own it. There is no contract where money is traded for a product.

I mean... yeah? That's one of the main reasons why you want to have your own Plex (or, Jellyfin) library, that way you control what media you have and it can't be taken away from you at any second.

This is why I don't buy digital media (other than games).

I pay the fee to stream but I won't give them more money to "buy" their movies or "rent" them.

you've never purchased anything digitally, from any of these motherfuckers, just rented them for sometimes what turns out to be an extremely long time, and sometimes not. step right up folks, one born ever minute.

Of course they’re able to.

They’re a digital platform. Unless something is DRM free, this shit is likely to happen at some point.

Of course, most digital goods providers are set up this way. You're not buying a copy of a thing, you're buying a limited perpetual license. If you want to actually own a copy of a digital good, pirate it.

That's bullshit