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[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Except after you rent/buy the video, you can only watch it as long as you pay for the subscription service you bought it from.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That's not what buying means or at least not the "buying" I am talking about. I mean I give some amount of money and I receive a download of the purchased material, free of DRM. There is no subscription involved. Like Steam (with no DRM) or GoG, but for movies and shows instead of games.

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Music went through this many years ago.

iTunes would have drm'd music files. Amazon too, I think.

Then at some point it all became sane and I could buy an MP3 and download it.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 22 hours ago

If it is anything like Steam, then you keep this media available to redownload as long as you wan. Same as Steam games that got delisted are still downloadable and playable.