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0 pointstonyarkles2y ago0 comments

Ahhh while I've never had specifically purchased media disappear like this, movies that I want to rewatch do often migrate around from streaming service to streaming service, which is fine if you subscribe to all of them but is really a hassle when you start watching something on Netflix and then when you come back to it a month later discover it's not available anymore.

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nomel2y ago· 2 in thread

Sure, but that's not related. There's no concept of ownership with the library of a streaming service. I think that's well understood by the general public.

harry82y ago

Sure it's well understood that it's a service fail and poor quality service leads to piracy.

johnnyanmac2y ago

You are aware services like that rose to prominence precisely because people decided to sacrifice ownership for rentals, right?

You didn't pay $10 for perpetual ownership of IASIP. You paid $10 for a month of access to Netflix or whatever service hosted that show. I still buy physical media or digital downloads of any work I want to keep for more than a month because I value it for those cases.

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