$25 to rent the movie, one watch within max 24 hours after you start watching it… Or $5 more to own it. Scammers.
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.
Then, when they remove it, they offer you a measly $5 gift card only redeemable on their platform.
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.)
A gift card isn’t a refund
It also doesn’t change the false implication they would “own” the digital copy
It’s a refund in the sense that you can exchange it for an item of equal value. A real refund would be more appropriate, I agree.
Equal value to the store != equal value to actual people.
Who does that??
And people will go ‘you didn’t buy it!’ like it doesn’t say “Buy” right fuckin’ there.
True, but it just says “buy 4k” which for all we know could mean “buy a temporary license to watch the 4k movie”.
AAAAAUUUGHHHHH!!!
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.
$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.
Hmmm… The region-free blu-ray
iswill be cheaper than this. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Barbie-Blu-ray-Region-Margot-Robbie/dp/B0BGY6PRK5When you said “cheaper” I was not expecting like NEARLY HALF THE PRICE
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.
I absolutely agree! Renting a movie should cost nowhere near as much as purchasing the movie.
If you don’t get a physical piece of media that can be viewed offline indefinitely, you don’t own anything, you’re just renting. Services revoking even bought and paid for content is not unheard of, digital purchasing gives every streaming company the ability to do that.
And you “own” it only as long as they deem it. https://nofilmschool.com/warner-bros-deleting-purchased-digital-content
This seems like reverse piracy
“We own everything”, basically. All they want is for them to control how everyone else does things.
Also, a hearty “fuck you” to all those folks out there (I’ve run into them before) who claim that publishers should get to have absolute control over how consumers use stuff they put out.
Read the TOS for all streaming/digital content services
they ALL reserve the right to withdraw or remove content at ANY time and there’s nothing you can do about it, if they decide to pull the plug or move content to another service they will just do it and you’ve most likely agreed to it in their very long winded and convoluted TOS that barely anyone bothers to read fully
this is part of Apple’s TOS
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?
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
I believe it was Sea of Sorrows for me. The first time I contacted them asking what was up, since I wanted to read the book I had purchased earlier that year. They “gave” it to me as a “one time exception.”
I never purchased a digital book again. Though I did still contact them again later that year, asking why it was gone yet again.
They tried to give me a “this may be an updated version” and I was like “no, this is a fucking novel based on a video game, they aren’t releasing new versions every few months like textbooks.”
Ironic but “Fahrenheit 451” being destroyed from Kindle would have been even more perfectly on the nose.
True. But 1984 is still pretty strong, memory holes, double think, denying reality. Fascist organizations dictating what people can know, say, think, remember.
That’s very much on the nose. But regardless, huge massive red flag, you don’t own something that you have in your library unless it’s physical and can’t be removed at a whim.
Wow I have this book on kindle …I’ll check if its still there
Do you have a good place to buy DRM free books?
Honestly, I havent bought a digital book since. You can read between the lines there.
I don’t actually believe there will be a place to purchase DRM free books. Most of the ones I am seeing from a cursory search are for copyright free books.
You can buy DRM free books @ your local book store.
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
“Merchandising! Merchandising!” -Yogurt
Hey, it goes to help everyone get paid during the strike, so it’s for a good cause.
Are there any ways to support workers on a per-production scope?
That’s a great idea.
Thanks Barbie!
No, That’s “Thanks, esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie” to you!
Yeah, $5 more to “own” the movie
I remember renting VHS and later dvd’s.
It usually cost like 4 bucks
It’s usually $4 to rent a movie that’s not in theaters. Barbie hasn’t ended it’s theater run.
Uhh, Redbox is still super cheap
Renting a DvD / Blueray was like 7$, going to the movies is 10-15$, why TF is this platform so expensive??
It’s pre release. You can often get streaming copies prior to the street date, but it’s generally quite expensive.
It’s not the platform. The movie is that much on them all. In a few months it will drop to $6 - 7 for rental.
“To own it” bwahahahaaaa
Lmao it says “buy”, not “own” xD Website delivers what it promises. Nothing is said about “own for life” lol.
Good movie though. I enjoyed it quite a bit since feminism doesn’t scare me. Grow up people.
With that said, fuck those prices, and fuck fake ownership.
Holy hell
What platform is this?
This looks like Google Play/TV or whatever they’re calling it nowadays.
25 to lease it. You don’t ever really own it
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.
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.
It’s less than 2 movie tickets and people usually don’t go to the theater alone.
Oh God just wait until they realize they can use cameras/IP geodata from your phone to determine how many people are in your house while you stream something so they start charging per person.
That’s insane, I saw it at Montreal in the cinema for $14 CAD.
