If you’re thinking about something like iTunes, the same limitations apply. Same goes for anything you purchased through Amazon. If Disney ever decides to drop out of the streaming game, you no longer have access to that title (and the Disney+ terms of service warn you of as much). Take Black Widow - a film folks paid $29.99 for on digital when it was released - for example. That license exists until the company no longer exists, or until the company no longer decides to support the title. You’re no longer purchasing media you’re licensing it. But the digital age has introduced an added level of complication to once simple transactions. It used to be pretty simple! I give you money, you give me your goods, I now own those goods. It’s a fair thing to be confused about, I suppose.
Yet, each time I bring this up, at least one person looks at me like the shocked Pikachu meme. Every couple of years, a company like Amazon will find itself in the news for reminding people that they don’t own their digital media or the New York Times will do an exposé on the matter.
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