Ownership rights are buried in the fine print and downloading or buying physical copies may be the only ways to keep your favourites

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be able to access the films and TV shows they had bought. *

  • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
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    5 months ago

    What would it take to get a “Steam but TV/movies instead of games”? I feel like if I could see reviews of movies and I could buy them and download them and have them forever and buy them on sale and all that good stuff, it wouldn’t be so bad.

    How come none of the streaming services have gone for this model? Steam is swimming in money, surely this method could work?

    • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I mean I hate to say it but if steam closed up shop tomorrow your games are gone too. You buy a license, not a copy, from steam

    • snownyte@kbin.social
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      5 months ago

      Steam really did try with the movies idea, it didn’t last too long though. Licensing is a bitch to maintain.