Remember kids, if buying is owning, piracy still isn't stealing. You can make infinite copies of digital media.

You mean like southern states banning books because they are "offensive"?

The feel when no pirate gf

"what a nice digital you have there, shame if someone take it from you."

In other words, media as a "service" makes more money than media as a one-point sale. Why should they sell you a one-point solution when the service model makes more money for the shareholders? I love the shareholder economy; it makes all our lives better and makes us focus on what really matters at the end of the day, which is, of course, profits for people who already have too much money. :) very cool

If you want to stay truly legit, buy used physical releases. They cost less money and you could support your local record store. Movies and music on a home NAS + Plex Server are god tier.

Not only that, but they think people are dumb enough to keep paying (and sometimes they're not wrong).

Oh, they care.

They got your money one way, and now their getting it another way!

Refund the sale price (that's less than its value to me), or the value I placed on it (that's difficult to estimate)?

The reason they aren't is because methods for cracking DRM like Widevine are kept extremely secret so that the exploits don't get patched. It does mean that a lot of content is locked to whatever the scene decides is worth their time to crack and distribute, but if anyone made the methods they use public, they would stop working very quickly.

There absolutely needs to be a law that forces companies to make this abundantly clear and make the usage of "buy" illegal in those cases. It should be "rent" or "purchase temporary license."

There should almost be a "buy a license to..." distinction like how some games are free versus free to play.

Buying it illegally is what some people do. I wish I could find the article I read, but pirate cable is definitely a thing in some places

Stealing legally is what the cops do when they commit robbery civil asset forfeiture

You can pay for illegal content and you can take something without permission, legally.