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I don't use any paid streaming services, so forgive me if I'm saying something stupid, but doesn't this: >Purchased Digital Content will generally continue to

I don't use any paid streaming services, so forgive me if I'm saying something stupid, but doesn't this: >Purchased Digital Content will generally continue to be available to you for download or streaming from the Service mean that you can download a copy of the content you bought? As far as I'm concerned, that's about as close to "owning" as it gets, when it comes to digital media. If you buy, say, a pair of pliers from a hardware store, and then instead of taking them home you leave them at the store and come back to use them every time you have something that needs plying, and then eventually the store needs to make room for other products and so throws your pliers away, you have no one to blame but yourself for not taking them home for safekeeping when you had the chance. This analogy could break down if the content has DRM. I don't know if it does, or if it does when it stops working, but that's a different discussion from "Amazon deleted my movie".

ryukafalz 4y ago
Music is typically DRM-free so in that case you have a point. Movie “downloads” are typically DRM’d and only downloadable within the confines of an app, and you don’t get to take the files with you if e.g. you switch devices.
josephcsible 4y ago
For your analogy to be correct, it's not that you chose not to take the pliers home, but that the hardware store won't let you.
dghlsakjg 4y ago
In this analogy, it is the case that the store won't let you take the pliers home, or only lets you take the pliers home under the supervision of an employee, and also that if you want to take the pliers with you on a road trip to Mexico, that isn't allowed, even if the hardware store has a branch in Mexico. Oh, and if the hardware store goes out of business you can never access the pliers again because it turns out they were leased from the plier manufacturer. Frequently when streaming content providers say "download" it is more accurately described as downloading a pre-cached version of the stream that only works on proprietary software which is reliant on a semi-regular internet connection. For example, you can "download" netflix/amazon/youtube content, but it can only be viewed on the app, and the app must be periodically reconnected to the internet.

ryukafalz 4y ago

Music is typically DRM-free so in that case you have a point. Movie “downloads” are typically DRM’d and only downloadable within the confines of an app, and you don’t get to take the files with you if e.g. you switch devices.

josephcsible 4y ago

For your analogy to be correct, it's not that you chose not to take the pliers home, but that the hardware store won't let you.

dghlsakjg 4y ago

In this analogy, it is the case that the store won't let you take the pliers home, or only lets you take the pliers home under the supervision of an employee, and also that if you want to take the pliers with you on a road trip to Mexico, that isn't allowed, even if the hardware store has a branch in Mexico. Oh, and if the hardware store goes out of business you can never access the pliers again because it turns out they were leased from the plier manufacturer. Frequently when streaming content providers say "download" it is more accurately described as downloading a pre-cached version of the stream that only works on proprietary software which is reliant on a semi-regular internet connection. For example, you can "download" netflix/amazon/youtube content, but it can only be viewed on the app, and the app must be periodically reconnected to the internet.