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It'd be lovely to see a return of the first sale doctrine, as well. We gave up the right to own a movie when we went to streaming. I want to be able to sell my stuff again. More importantly, I want Netflix to be able to offer streaming of everything they have the DVDs for.

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>I want Netflix to be able to offer streaming of everything they have the DVDs for.

That is why it will never happen.

Could you explain?

The people who own streaming rights would go from having something that is worth money to something that is completely worthless.

Netflix is one of those companies so even they wouldn’t fight for it.

Netflix has a right to rent physical discs, but streaming is different than lending. I would love for movies to have compulsory licensing like music does though.

> Netflix has a right to rent physical discs, but streaming is different than lending.

I’m curious about this. I mean it’s different in terms of implementation and law, but conceptually it’s pretty similar.

Side-note-thought-experiment: in places where it is legal to “pirate” content you own, could Netflix get around this by renting a DVD to you (but holding in in escrow for you at their location) then providing you streaming access to that DVD?

Streaming in my mind is more like asking your friend to come over to watch a movie, than lending them the movie to watch themselves.

Exhibition rights are significantly different than private viewing rights.

At the end of the day, the results are roughly the same, one more person has seen the film. But there's a lot of subtlety in how that happens.

No they got shutdown https://www.wired.com/2011/08/zediva-preliminary-injunction/

You can't own the stream, but you can still buy the DVD, and first sale still applies there.

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