Exactly — they should have just offered a lease until the end of the licensing agreement: “Pay $X today and watch this movie as many times as you want through June 2026!”

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CamperBob2 5 hours ago | parent [-]

When this was originally tried under the OG "DIVX" brand name, everybody (including me) threw a fit.

Some warned that everything would work that way eventually anyway, and everybody (including me) blew them off.

	▲	fluoridation 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		>Some warned that everything would work that way eventually anyway Well, they were wrong, weren't they? The way it works now is much worse: what you're purchasing is a license for playback for an indeterminate amount of time, which can be arbitrarily and unilaterally terminated by the provider.
	▲	lokar 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I thought divx came with one play when you bought the disk, and then PPV after that