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Surprisingly, Disney figured this out for movies with their "Movies Anywhere" service, powered by something they call KeyChest. You create a "Movies Anywhere" a

Surprisingly, Disney figured this out for movies with their "Movies Anywhere" service, powered by something they call KeyChest. You create a "Movies Anywhere" account, and then link digital stores (iTunes, Prime Video, Vudu) to that account. All movies that you purchased from participating studios then appear on all of the linked stores. It actually works quite well. I can purchase a movie on the Roku Movie Store (powered by Vudu) and have it appear as purchased on my Apple TV with iTunes, and all of the big studios are members so not that many films are missing. You also now get a Movies Anywhere code in the box of most Blu-ray purchases, which works exactly like you would expect and appears on all the stores as if it were a Roku or Apple TV purchase. (Ultraviolet codes are grandfathered in if you have any of those.)

Ekaros 5y ago
Gog did at one point have gog.com/connect service. Which allowed linking your Steam account and retrieving what games you had there. Then providing your copies on GoG. Still entirely doable and I think nothing stops implementing similar thing.
thfuran 5y ago
I'm not saying that Disney should be precluded from undertaking that (and probably exchanging a lot of money with each of the integrated platforms). But I am saying that new streaming start up example.com shouldn't be legally obligated to—at no charge—serve traffic to the entire customer base of prime video, Netflix, Disney+, etc should they decide that they want to get their content through a third party that they didn't buy it from.