Perhaps even better would be to download it, and then send a letter + payment to the studio and explain that you wanted to pay for their excellent film but also

Perhaps even better would be to download it, and then send a letter + payment to the studio and explain that you wanted to pay for their excellent film but also wanted to download it for convenience. If enough people did this it might encourage them to provide the service you want. I doubt it. It's clear that the only thing the studios respond to is their bottom line. There is simply no way Netflix streaming, Spotify, etc would exist if it weren't for piracy. We'd still be buying high-margin CDs and DVDs. Saying "Your product wasn't available in the format that I wanted, so I torrented it and gave you this money to compensate you" is hardly going to convince them to change their ways. They might sue you though: there's lots of money in that.