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Just remember anything you purchase on Amazon Prime, you don't technically own it.
by chromedev 6y ago
Just remember anything you purchase on Amazon Prime, you don't technically own it.
- nkristoffersen 6y agoFrom my understanding you don’t technically own most media (music, movies, software) regardless of the format. It’s a license. Even if you purchase a CD or DVD, etc.
- kortilla 6y agoThat misses the point. I have DVDs that I purchased that will work as long as I posses them and they were made before Netflix was even a company. There may technically be a license attached to them, but there is no practical way for any company to revoke my usage of them and the failure mode if any of those companies cease to exist is for them to continue working.
- eru 6y agoOriginal commenter should have written: > Just remember anything you purchase on Amazon Prime, you don't practically own it.
- paxys 6y agoIsn't it exactly the same for a song or movie you purchased from Amazon and downloaded to your hard drive?
- chrisco255 6y agoCan you download prime movies to disk? I thought it was streamed only.
- lmm 6y agoNo, that's nonsense. You do own the medium. More relevantly, the first sale doctrine means copyright does not restrict most of the ownership rights you'd expect to have.
- smabie 6y agoNo one purchases movies or TV shows on prime. The point of the purchase price is to make the rent price seem cheaper.
- cwilkes 6y agoI have — in this case Better Call Saul as I’ll probably watch it again in a few years. Since I don’t have to carry around a DVD I don’t have any cost of carrying around a DVD that I will probably lose. I liked that Amazon reduced the price by almost the amount of the first two videos that I rented.
- toper-centage 6y agoI have no interest in owning movies after I watched them. You can still buy your movies in blue ray if you want to keep them.