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‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 6 months ago by thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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*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. *

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 38 points 6 months ago (21 children)

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?

[–] it_is_soup_time@techhub.social 10 points 6 months ago (5 children)

@SorteKanin @thirdBreakfast I guess Amazon and iTunes would be the closest thing, but rights expire for TV shows and movies far more often than they do for games. It’s insane that there are shows from 10 years ago that aren’t legally accessible or are straight-up lost media because the rights expired.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

rights expire for TV shows and movies far more often than they do for games

Any idea why there is this discrepancy between TV and games?

[–] mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.uk 2 points 6 months ago

Money. It's much better if you can sell the same thing over and over again.

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