Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
blargerer@kbin.social 4 months agoOther comments are wrong, its complicated residual structures on tv/movies.
Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
blargerer@kbin.social 4 months agoOther comments are wrong, its complicated residual structures on tv/movies.
Bookmeat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Exactly. The licensing and sublicensing structures in TV and film are way more complicated than in video games. They also intentionally license for relatively short durations for tax reasons and other corporate considerations that have nothing to do with the end viewer or consumer.