> Netflix, Comcast, Amazon Prime and other video streaming service charge you the same as the DVD rental, but force you to watch the entire video within 48 hour

> Netflix, Comcast, Amazon Prime and other video streaming service charge you the same as the DVD rental, but force you to watch the entire video within 48 hours from 1st starting it. I haven't encountered this behavior in Netflix; under what circumstances are you experiencing it? EDIT: A cursory search informed me that this seems to apply to viewing streaming movies which have been downloaded to a device and watched while offline. The expiration timer is reset when the viewing device has a WAN connection. I guess this is a mechanism to discourage hoarding a large number of movies, then cancelling your subscription? Not sure.