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Not all streaming providers do this. For example, if you buy a movie on Apple TV, you can download it. To me, that makes good on the "buy" agreement. Based on my last experience, I was trying to buy a movie that was available both on Amazon and Apple for the same price. The amazon version is bound by the EULA, and they don't let me download or play on non-DRM protected devices/apps. But Apple's was good. So I don't buy movies on amazon anymore.


Apple won't let you download or play a movie on non- drm protected devices/ apps either.

And you can't play anything you bought until you obtain Apple's permission to link the device you want to play on to your Itunes account.

This isn't exactly a traditional definition of ownership.


Apple bans your Apple ID you lose everything. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/apple-faces-clas...


Can you sell it to a friend after you've watched it, like it's 100% perfectly legal to do with a CD? If not, then you haven't bought it.




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