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Just remember anything you purchase on Amazon Prime, you don't technically own it.

From my understanding you don’t technically own most media (music, movies, software) regardless of the format. It’s a license. Even if you purchase a CD or DVD, etc.

That misses the point. I have DVDs that I purchased that will work as long as I posses them and they were made before Netflix was even a company.

There may technically be a license attached to them, but there is no practical way for any company to revoke my usage of them and the failure mode if any of those companies cease to exist is for them to continue working.

Original commenter should have written:

> Just remember anything you purchase on Amazon Prime, you don't practically own it.

Isn't it exactly the same for a song or movie you purchased from Amazon and downloaded to your hard drive?

Can you download prime movies to disk? I thought it was streamed only.

No, that's nonsense. You do own the medium. More relevantly, the first sale doctrine means copyright does not restrict most of the ownership rights you'd expect to have.

I have no interest in owning movies after I watched them. You can still buy your movies in blue ray if you want to keep them.

No one purchases movies or TV shows on prime. The point of the purchase price is to make the rent price seem cheaper.

I have — in this case Better Call Saul as I’ll probably watch it again in a few years. Since I don’t have to carry around a DVD I don’t have any cost of carrying around a DVD that I will probably lose.

I liked that Amazon reduced the price by almost the amount of the first two videos that I rented.

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