
You Don’t Actually Own That Movie You Just “Bought.” A New Class Action Lawsuit Targets Amazon
A suit challenges Prime Video telling people they can "buy" a movie when they're purchasing a license to watch it for a period of time.

And here when I saw the title I was just hoping they would be breaking up these handful of behemoths and their domination of content!![]()
You Don’t Actually Own That Movie You Just “Bought.” A New Class Action Lawsuit Targets Amazon
A suit challenges Prime Video telling people they can "buy" a movie when they're purchasing a license to watch it for a period of time.www.hollywoodreporter.com
Even Physical Media purchases are a license, just a lot harder to deny access, unlike digital.![]()
You Don’t Actually Own That Movie You Just “Bought.” A New Class Action Lawsuit Targets Amazon
A suit challenges Prime Video telling people they can "buy" a movie when they're purchasing a license to watch it for a period of time.www.hollywoodreporter.com
I say that as someone with 570 digital movies / TV episodes owned/accessible on Amazon.
569. 568……
My guess with all this continued consolidation it will happen at a much faster pace? Its the card they hold the larger they get.It does fluctuate due to the nature of licensing, though it's pretty rare.
It's more common w/ books, which just went through a big thing on their Kindle and Audible platforms. Wife has more than 1100 books on the platform (I suppose a few might be mine), and 300 audiobooks (ok, maybe 10 are these are mine) - though she's a big reader (clearly) and is an audio book narrator.
I own over 1700 digital games, too.
People can be scared of this stuff or they can just pay attention, it's not hard.
My guess with all this continued consolidation it will happen at a much faster pace? Its the card they hold the larger they get.
Over 3600 for myself.I say that as someone with 570 digital movies / TV episodes owned/accessible on Amazon.
Just packed mine up for the move to the new house in Lakeland, doubtful my fiancée will let me unpack them, unfortunately, a lot of them are 4K from Arrow, Shout and Kino Lorber, so no 4K digital equivalent on Vudu/Fandango.Our actual DVDs and Blu-Rays are still in the garage, in their deteriorating cardboard boxes unpacked since our our move into this house almost 10 years ago.
Here is a great article, how much is owned by so few.What consolidation though, and how has any prior consolidation impacted this issue?
I have so many titles in part because I can buy them from multiple other storefronts and because of (generous IMO) licensing that most movie distributors have agreed to I can access those same titles on multiple storefronts.
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The concept of only owning a license to these titles isn't going to change, at most all this could hope to accomplish is squeezing Amazon for some money and the button we click might have different text on / around it the for the same reason McDonalds has to warn people that coffee is hot - largely for liability, rather than actually informing people of something.
It's also a real big reach by the article to try and tie this to the 'stop killing games' movement, which is also not without numerous problems with their goals / approach.