I'd say the mistake is assuming that streaming in its current state (the quality and quantity/growth rate of content catalogues at their relatively low prices) is sustainable for the industry. Something is going to give eventually. People will either lose quality, quantity, or have to pay increasingly more until costs are nearly the same as pre-streaming days. It has already been moving in that direction.
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Why did Apple remove the purchased movie "Greyhound" from my Apple Library?
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Certainly the number of physical copy sales will be only a percentage of that experienced in the DVD/Blu-Ray era. Don't expect them to disappear completely. Look at the resurgence of vinyl disk sales. [Do see that those sales dropped 33% in 2024].
Sad how we are being somewhat pushed into renting or "buying" on line movies and at the same time, pushed away from disc purchases. Various stores known for carrying discs no longer do or the offerings are extremely limited. I prefer to buy discs and ideally with digital copy as part of the purchase. The digital copy is for devices such as iPad and iPhone and things of this sort while the disc to drive is for the best presentation (both visual and audio). Streaming for me is a fun game of wait to see what is in the sales bin. Sometimes the sales are pretty good on Fandango and MoviesAnywhere. Amazon and Apple well..not really. If either were to pull the movie, then I might consider going without or a disc purchase. For me, the bets reason to stream is for things such as TV series.
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Physical retail stores may be phasing out discs in inventory but online stores offer them in abundance. Let your search bar do the locating, buy and have whatever disc one wants delivered in a few days. Amazon & Ebay alone seem to offer towards about everything. And there are many others beyond them... including a robust used disc market.
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The concept of digital "ownership" is seriously flawed as it is now. You can't sell, give away, loan or bequeath to your heirs digital property (ebooks, games, video) at all. Until we actually have real property rights as we would with a physical book, game, or other media, it's just a rental, served at the pleasure of the copyright holders and subject to any kind of restrictions they see fit to impose.
My thinking is blockchain could enable accountable transfer of digital ownership to accommodate both copyright holders and consumers. But not sure what the roadblocks are for that.
I've heard the same idea before. That would definitely provide some kind of cryptographic proof of ownership. I think the other piece would be the actual storage of the content, but I'm sure that could be figured out.
Anything that gets us out from under the boot heel of the IP industrial complex is a good thing.
Amazon has edited out the visit to Pottersville in the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life”. That is why physical movie products will always be available. Do not buy into digital.
Non-willingness of copyright holders to accommodate consumers and allow such transfer.
Why allow transfer, when you can „sell“ the same twice, make it a recurring subscription or rent out just temporarily?
Well it's legalised appropriation in that you never owned it in the first place.
It's weird we get all upset about stuff like this, while Uber etc - companies actually stealing from society - flies under the radar
Possible, although not sure what you mean by sell twice. But my hope is that a true digital sale/ownership solution would get enough people to start purchasing movies again who otherwise would not rent etc, that the gain in purchasing revenue would outweigh any loss in current subscribing and renting revenues (although those would still remain as options I’m sure). I don’t think subscriptions and renting these days is even all that lucrative for studios compared to the old days of theater tickets and physical-only media, so it may not even be a high bar to hit.
This is why Piracy is the way to go. 4k blu ray rips all stored nicely in my NAS forever. Screw all the streaming services.
From what I understand, it’s just an additional shortened version that they offer, but they also continue to offer the original version. But still seems like they chose a pretty poor way to shorten the movie.
Streaming services regularly remove movies and series off their platforms. The shows and series that you love will not be on them forever. Better to Pirate and keep them forever on your own.
I subscribe to netflix, disney+ and Amazon prime. But for the nice series that I love, i'm taking no chances.
I subscribe to netflix, disney+ and Amazon prime. But for the nice series that I love, i'm taking no chances.
screw the streaming companies who remove the stuff that i love."Screw the people who make the stuff I love"
Thats why i buy physical games for the PS5. For movies and series, its not worth buying physical to me unless you are some hardcore cinephile who wants to collect all the 4k Ultra Blu rays that will collect dust
So… you love the stuff but you won’t spend any money on it? You expect people to keep making this stuff for you for free?
They don't remove it for fun. They remove it because they did not pay the price for a perpetual license and by extension, neither did you. By imagining your Netflix subscription entitles you to own forever something Netlfix only rented for a year, you are screwing the wrong people. The people who made the thing you love haven't been paid properly for your ownership yet.
