‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services

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‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
theguardian.com

*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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More and more it is becoming a good idea to store things on your own private equipment. If we don't demand ownership of our own possessions we will soon own nothing