Class Action against media "ownership"

[ncted]

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

 

[AZ.]

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

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!

 

[meStevo]

Doubt it goes anywhere, and if it does it'll just change terminology used on sites to purchase licenses for content.

There will be no meaningful change as a result of this. I don't see how any of this can be seen as malicious on the part of Amazon when they're just engaging in industry standard practices when it comes to selling these licenses.

I say that as someone with 570 digital movies / TV episodes owned/accessible on Amazon.

 

[Bruce]

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.

 

[navychop]

I say that as someone with 570 digital movies / TV episodes owned/accessible on Amazon.

569. 568……

 

[meStevo]

569. 568……

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.

 

[AZ.]

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.

 

[meStevo]

My guess with all this continued consolidation it will happen at a much faster pace? Its the card they hold the larger they get.

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.

Home | Movies Anywhere

Watch movies online with Movies Anywhere. Stream movies from Disney, Fox, Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros. Connect your digital accounts and import your movies from Apple iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, Fandango at Home, Xfinity, Google Play/YouTube, Microsoft Movies & TV, Verizon Fios TV, and...

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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.

 

[navychop]

So how's your access holding up to those "digital copies" provided with DVDs, BDs and UHD BDs?

 

[klang]

My Digital Copies normally end up in Apple TV as well as Movies Anywhere. So far I am not aware of any content disappearing. I suppose if Movies Anywhere and Apple where to have a falling out they might disappear. But I still have the disks.

 

[meStevo]

Same, the dozens that I redeemed on Vudu and elsewhere are all still there and accessible.

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.

 

[Bruce]

I say that as someone with 570 digital movies / TV episodes owned/accessible on Amazon.

Over 3600 for myself.

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.

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.

 

[AZ.]

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.

Home | Movies Anywhere

Watch movies online with Movies Anywhere. Stream movies from Disney, Fox, Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros. Connect your digital accounts and import your movies from Apple iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, Fandango at Home, Xfinity, Google Play/YouTube, Microsoft Movies & TV, Verizon Fios TV, and...

moviesanywhere.com

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.

Here is a great article, how much is owned by so few.

Mergers and Acquisitions of Major Film Studios

What does Disney own? Who owns Universal Pictures? Check out our timeline of film production company acquisitions to learn who owns what.

wyomingllcattorney.com

 

[AZ.]

The "other" (20.43%) represents everyone else, including "mini-majors" such as A24 (an independent studio), Amazon MGM Studios (owned by Amazon), and Lionsgate.

 

[meStevo]

Ok, and how has that negatively impacted this topic?

I get the concern, but the consolidation is not new. It's FUD unless there's already been an impact that I (a relatively heavy user of PVOD) have yet to be impacted by.

The closest any of us deal with that is just the ebb and flow of content available on the different streaming services - which is also just business as usual.