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$25 to rent the movie, one watch within max 24 hours after you start watching it... Or $5 more to own it. Scammers.

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[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 230 points 1 year ago (5 children)

No you are mistaken with "Or $5 mire to own it". You own a license to watch for the amount of time the platforms decides to keep it up.

[–] Decoy321@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Then, when they remove it, they offer you a measly $5 gift card only redeemable on their platform.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On that last post where someone got a refund they gave a full refund as a gift card and an additional 5 euro gift card.

(Not saying it's an okay think to do, just in case you're referencing it.)

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 21 points 1 year ago (8 children)

A gift card isn't a refund

It also doesn't change the false implication they would "own" the digital copy

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[–] atomWood@lemm.ee 142 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Spending $30 to own a brand new movie that just came out is not something I have a problem with.

However, not being able to download a copy of the movie you purchased is where I take issue.

[–] Oneandonlyzach@sh.itjust.works 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

$30 to own the movie is valid, but for $5 less, you're only allowed 1 watch within 24 hours of starting. Something like that shouldn't be basically the same price as the movie. With pricing like this, they basically force you to spend the extra $5. There isn't even a point to rent the movie and they know that.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you said “cheaper” I was not expecting like NEARLY HALF THE PRICE

[–] somegadgetguy@lemdro.id 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I'm back to buying discs for the movies I want to support. Then I can always hang on to a copy no matter where it might live on streaming apps.

[–] atomWood@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

I absolutely agree! Renting a movie should cost nowhere near as much as purchasing the movie.

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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 1 year ago (10 children)

After the first few times I had apple remove a book from my library, and the only explanation they ever gave me was "sometimes books change, and when books change they are a new book," I just went back to DRM free. If I have to jump through hoops, and still can't keep the content I legally purchased, why would I legally purchase the content?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

When Amazon removed 1984 from Kindle, I thought that's it I'm done. That is too ironic, DRM free for me. Nobody's going to remove my books

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106989048

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[–] lichtmetzger@feddit.de 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Man, I spent 15 bucks to watch it at the movie theatre. Why is the rent option more expensive than that? Even with the popcorn and drink I stayed below that.

[–] gjoel@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

My only argument I can come up with is that other people have friends, so $25 will be less than going to the cinema because they don't have to pay that price for each person watching. It's still ridiculously expensive though.

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[–] CCatMan@lemmy.one 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Owned" till we remove it from your library

[–] throws_lemy@reddthat.com 15 points 1 year ago

You'll own nothing, and you'll be happy

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Instead of giving your money to Amazon to rent this mediocre looking movie that I know nothing about (so this is not a promotion), why not watch it elsewhere (cough cough) and use the same 25 dollars of your hard earned money to support the people who actually worked on the movie and buy a shirt here instead?

https://www.sagaftra.org/official-sag-aftra-strike-swag-available

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[–] archomrade@midwest.social 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

25 to lease it. You don't ever really own it

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's more like "How long would you like to rent it for? 24 hours or until we decide to remove it from our servers?"

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[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 58 points 1 year ago (22 children)

That's $25 for a revocable license to watch it once and $5 more for a revocable license to watch it as many times as you want until the service folds or they decide to memory-hole it in order to get out of paying residuals to the cast and crew. The only way to own something is to steal it.

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I kind of get the feeling that CEOs and corporations see the writing on the wall in terms of the world, economy, and climate change. We're headed for some really extreme times in history and I think these guys have the mindset to just go full balls and try to scam as much wealth out of humanity as possible before the shit hits the fan. The greed I see from companies these days is very blatant and in your face, they don't try to hide it anymore, it's all very "fuck you, pay me" and it's virtually every company you can find these days, they're all doing everything they can to fuck everyone out of one more penny.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 year ago

"own it" until we delete it from your account because reasons, but hey, we'll give you a coupon!

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The physical Blu-Ray is $25* -- then at least you own it, versus the $30 price here to "buy" but actually lease.

Absolutely ridiculous pricing across the board though.

Edit: $25 for 1080p Blu-Ray, $40 for 4k.

[–] Just_Pizza_Crust@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The worst part is that you might be better off with a pirated copy due to DRM on Blu-ray.

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[–] omeara4pheonix@lemmy.zip 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Correction, $5 more for a lifetime (or until the company decides to remove it) rental.

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[–] Jocker@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 year ago

$25 to rent and an extra $5 for the illusion you own it!

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Panq@lemmy.nz 22 points 1 year ago

Pipe dream, but I really wish we would make it illegal to use the terms "Buy" or "Own" for digital goods that can at some point not exist outside of your control.

I give you a dollar and get a DRM-free video file? That is buying.

I give you a dollar and can watch a video file an unlimited number of times in your app? That is not buying, and it should be fraud to claim that it is.

[–] hexdream@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 year ago

You don't even own it when you buy it

[–] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

And buying the movie probably won't give you a file, but instead just the right to stream it from their servers. At some point they'll pull the plug on that and you'll loose access.

You dont own it thenyou just have it available on your account.

[–] ximtor@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I am just baffled by how many people pay idiotic prices with "life just got more expensive, what are you gonna do"

If people happily keep buying all the overpriced shit it's just gonna get worse..

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[–] Ragerist@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper@feddit.de 25 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Renting a DvD / Blueray was like 7$, going to the movies is 10-15$, why TF is this platform so expensive??

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[–] girl@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (23 children)

This is the first movie I ever pirated, specifically because of this bullshit pricing. Now I have a VPN and a 500 GB server, which I’m sure will need to be upgraded at some point lol

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[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 year ago

I think I'll download the video file for free.

[–] Loki@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago

This is ridiculous, but at least Barbie is getting a physical release. I'm actually very willing to pay for media... if I can access it offline and am not dependent on the good will of some large corporation.

[–] GeoGio7@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I pirated Barbie and was pretty excited to see it but damn I was disappointed, this movie was seriously overhyped it's really nothing to write home about.

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[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I remember renting VHS and later dvd's.

It usually cost like 4 bucks

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[–] nostradiel@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does buy 4K means own digitaly? If yes, it's even worse than I thought..

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