> But it's not like Funimation has the ability to just be like "Here's the video file, go ahead and download it" - even if they had the will to do so they likel

> But it's not like Funimation has the ability to just be like "Here's the video file, go ahead and download it" - even if they had the will to do so they likely don't have the legal ability Potentially true, but probably only due to themselves being under a licensing constrain. The point here is that the folks who ultimately do have total licensing control, the folks who licensed to Funimation to license to users, those folks should have foreseen that in the event of end customers losing access they should've allowed for giving them offline files (at least that's what I as a customer who "bought" a thing would expect). Instead, as usual the customer is getting screwed after a big "eh, that would be inconvenient/we might merely make a lot of money instead of a shitton of money."