There... is an iTunes for movies. I mean, I own hundreds of iTunes movies, some of which I purchased 13 years ago. Microsoft, Google, and Sony all have equivalents.
As a broader matter of principle, it proves your property rights over a DRMed ebook are weak compared to a regular physical book; if you had a physical book, the seller couldn't barge into your home and remove it, refund or no.
What commercial video from the major studios have not had copy protection?
Either there was no copy protection, or the copy protection was so trivial to circumvent that I never even knew it was there.
I never said that the copy protection schemes weren’t easily circumvented. I said that commercial video has always had copy protection.
You’ve never been able to buy commercial video without copy protection. Even in the VHS days you had Macrovision.
That statement is factually correct.
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Not true. Perhaps you meant to say that copy protection has existed for a long time. But plenty of commercial video has been available without copy protection.
Which is factually incorrect.
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I copied in the 2000s using whatever generic DVD ripper was available for windows at the time. I recall once or twice being unable to rip a DVD for copy protection reasons but it was rare.
Since even the oldest Windows dvd copy programs like DVDRipper could crack DRM doesn’t prove anything...
Are you now saying that being factually correct is “irrelevant”?
But using programs and devices that removed copy protection somehow proves that it didn’t exist?
Since it is only available in the US, I would suspect that it would be centered around US releases.
Even if Disney later shuts down Movies Anywhere, you’ve already “purchased” the movie according to Amazon/Apple/Google, etc. You can disconnect from Movies Anywhere once you sync the titles between services.