$25 to rent the movie, one watch within max 24 hours after you start watching it… Or $5 more to own it. Scammers.

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    That’s $25 for a revocable license to watch it once and $5 more for a revocable license to watch it as many times as you want until the service folds or they decide to memory-hole it in order to get out of paying residuals to the cast and crew. The only way to own something is to steal it.

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        It’s weird how people were told it’s theft and they simply repeated it forever despite knowing exactly what theft is and knowing piracy is literally not the same thing.

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          Now apply this same reasoning to other life concepts we’ve been told, and welcome to enlightenment.

          (Or black pilling, YMMV)

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            You need to get yawnpilled. Check it out: some of the things people commonly accept as true actually are true. Up your grind and get on my level

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        What’s the DRM like on a disc copy? I’ll admit that I’m not caught up, it’s been a long time since I bought physical media. Is it revocable?

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            It’s not even grey - in the US it is illegal under the DMCA.

            I’m not up to date on ripping tools, though.

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              I know that in the EU, if you buy a video game and it runs poorly or not at all because of the DRM put in place by the publisher, you are allowed to use a crack. Dunno if it’s the same for a movie tho.

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                The DMCA supersedes that - it’s still a crime to bypass copy protection mechanisms, and there are very few exceptions to that rule.

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          With a physical item, first sale doctrine clearly applies, so you can own the movie, and resell it to somebody else, or lend it to your friends, or give it to a library. None of which is possible with a digital DRMed "ownership "