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The author doesn't have a comment form on the blog, but since the username looks like he was the one who submitted here, I wanted to reply and offer that there
by e1ven 8y ago
The author doesn't have a comment form on the blog, but since the username looks like he was the one who submitted here, I wanted to reply and offer that there may be a solution-
The companies that offer digital movies came together last year in order to try to solve this problem.
If you go to moviesanywhere.com you can link your accounts, it will make those movies available across all of the different platforms, including YouTube which is available everywhere.
It only works with movies, not TV shows or audiobooks or music, so there are still a lot of places we need to get better. But I think the specific problem that you are having may be solved.
- andybak 8y agoNice idea. Shame the damn thing is US only. (also - are people still enforcing silly password complexity rules? I thought we'd got over that? My x character all-one-character-type passwords are perfectly secure thanks very much. I did the maths...)
- josteink 8y ago> Shame the damn thing is US only. And no surprise there. I honestly don’t expect anything else at this point.
- Jgrubb 8y agoThank you! I just tossed a random thought out and here it is on the front page 2 hours later, but this is exactly it!
- awinder 8y agoI’d suggest updating the blog because while it’s not super intuitive as you found out, everyone should know about moviesanywhere :D. It really makes me feel like we surpassed vhs vs betamax because once you connect all your accounts, you really have a ton of redundancy and it can help with platform lock-in. It also completely flipped the piracy argument in my mind. If you’re consuming a new movie per month you’re basically at $20 a month in expenses to house a digital warehouse of movies. Keeping large libraries of pirated movies is not cheap, you’re powering a machine 24/7, etc. MoviesAnywhere removing lock-in and stuff like iTunes upgrading past purchases to 4K made me a “true believer” on what’s going on with digital movies