When you purchase a movie from Amazon Instant Video, you’re not buying it,
exactly. It’s more like renting indefinitely.

This distinction matters if your notion of “buying” is that you pay for
something once and then you get to keep that thing for as long as you want.
Increasingly, in the world of digital goods, a purchasing transaction isn’t
that simple.

There are two key differences between buying media in a physical format
versus a digital one. First, there’s the technical aspect: Maintaining
long-term access to a file requires a hard copy of it—that means, for
example, downloading a film, not just streaming from a third party’s
server. The second distinction is a bit more complicated, and it has to do
with how the law has shaped digital rights in the past 15 years. It helps
to think about the experience of a person giving up CDs and using iTunes
for music purchases instead.


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