This is one reason why piracy is legitimate and important

What did those movies cost? More like a movie ticket or more like a Blu-ray?

Incredible timing with the news they are discontinuing disks in 2028.

You will own nothing.

In similar fashon in year 2009 Amazon deleted books from Kindle. One of them was 1984 from George Orwell.

Excellent time to get a Jellyfin instance setup!

If buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing.

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691346

Reminds me of 1984, not the book itself, but the time when Amazon deleted it from everyone's Kindle because of some sort of copyright issue. I think that's when most of us first realized that the digital media being purchased doesn't really belong to you.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/17/amazon-ki...

A friend of mine owned the first Ipod, and diligently ripped all his cd's and cut and pasted them too his device. I asked if he had backups, and he said he had the cd's. I told him too make a copy, just in case the Apple mafia came too delete his stuff. He didn't, and then after a move he lost or scratched many of his CD's. His only backup WAS the ripped MP3's. A few years later Apple deleted all of his music claiming he hadn't purchased them. He didn't even know how to download music. Every single MP3 he had he ripped himself...