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Ask HN: Why can't I buy or rent a digital copy of Will Ferrell's Anchorman?
- tantalor 14y agoI'm sure you'll find that's the case for many titles. I suppose the rightholders might have an exclusive deal with somebody you haven't checked, like RedBox.
- tantalor 14y agoJust checked, RedBox etc. rent discs and iTunes sells it. As far as I can tell nobody has the digital rental. Maybe Apple has an exclusive license to the digital copy and chooses not to rent it. Speculating, they might lose money renting it, but they don't want anybody else to have it (anticompetitive?)
- stevewilhelm 14y agoI can not find it for sale on iTunes. Can you post a link? Red Box had it listed in its catalog but did not have it available for rent in the Silicon Valley area.
- tantalor 14y agohttps://itunes.apple.com/ie/movie/anchorman-legend-ron-burgundy/id297465313 https://itunes.apple.com/ie/movie/anchorman-legend-ron-burgu... (That was not easy.)
- wmf 14y agoDreamworks may be one of the studios that just doesn't do digital rentals.