this contradiction always confused me. either way the official company is “losing a sale” and not getting the money, right?

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    9 months ago

    It’s kind of not tested though.

    If you’ve never been given the option to download it and save it and use it from there, how would you “own” it if the streaming service takes it offline?

    If you can’t transfer ownership of something, or have it past the lifespan of the shop you bought it from, do you really own it? I would say not.

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      9 months ago

      That’s not the ownership though, that’s a subscription to a service. Ownership is something like buying songs on iTunes not listening to them on Apple music.

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        9 months ago

        You can buy individual movies on Amazon without a subscription. This doesn’t mean you own it. If they stop hosting it, it’s gone.

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          9 months ago

          But that is where the difference is, that’s not streaming or at least not as the term is used. That was a purchase of a specific title.

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            9 months ago

            streaming

            noun

            a method of transmitting or receiving data (especially video and audio material) over a computer network as a steady, continuous flow, allowing playback to start while the rest of the data is still being received.

            Whether it’s subscribed, “purchased” or free, if you don’t have the full file to copy and do what you want with it, it’s streaming.

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        9 months ago

        That’s software, and frankly until you can transfer a played game to somebody else in Steam, it’s not something that is enforced.

        They cannot “oppose it” according to that, but you cannot do it.

        But buying a digital movie from Amazon or Sony? They can take that away. Haven’t heard a peep from the EU on it.