One of my great frustrations with the industry is that they've reduced us to this. It did not have to be this way. They could have built a system that allowed p

One of my great frustrations with the industry is that they've reduced us to this. It did not have to be this way. They could have built a system that allowed people to move media around on home servers, keep offline copies, effectively treated the customer like an adult who understands they paid for one copy of the movie and the reality of digital systems means that movie might actually exist at several places at once. Yet here we are. I spend a lot of money on media. I go to the movies regularly, I "purchase" movies on digital services, I buy physical media when I can. I think it's important to try to support the things you enjoy in the ways they want you to support them. I also do not believe there's a morally conscionable way to engage with media completely within the law. These villains are happy to make it legally impossible to view a series if it gives them a financial boost. It's just another way in which our legal system clearly departs from the lived experience of "what makes sense. I understand and respect people who have a more anti-copyright take on our media ecosystem. I get where they are coming from and I support them. I also think it's really important to keep in focus what an unreasonable and imbalanced and a-historical arrangement media companies are insisting on. It's perfectly possible to create a legal system of digital ownership that is in line with physical ownership. There are no boundaries - it could even involve drm! But they absolutely refuse to create one.