Wouldn't it be nice. As a Canadian who hasn't had cable for a decade, every six months or so I check on options. I subscribed to Netflix when we got it here, an

Wouldn't it be nice. As a Canadian who hasn't had cable for a decade, every six months or so I check on options. I subscribed to Netflix when we got it here, and it's cheap and good, but I'd love to be able to access HBO and other movie content. I tried to find a legal download of Bladerunner the other day, and got the following: 1) Amazon.com geofenced it 2) Google Play won't let me download it (I have "bought" movies on Google Play before, but like any digital play-for-now service they will eventually become unavailable to me: I will no longer buy digital content I can't rip to an open format, because temporary proprietary access is not what I'm looking for.) 3) iTunes doesn't have it 4) Amazon.ca doesn't do digital downloads of films, near as I can tell. They certainly didn't have the one I was looking for. All I want to be able to do is pay for a legal digital copy of a film, and I can't. I can buy a piece of plastic with the bits burned into it that I have no device to play, but that's a ridiculous waste. I didn't torrent the film... I just ended up saying, "Screw it. No sale for me." Business 101: make it easy for customers to give you money. This is something that digital streaming companies (other than Netflix) have not mastered.