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Originally Posted by GlennD
I have a hunch that over the next few years we'll move to a Netflix-style license for music and books. It's really not much of a stretch given Amazon's Kindle Unlimited program. At that point it'll be irrelevant who owns what, since you'll just be paying a monthly fee to access all of it.
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All subscription services have the same problem - they lose content. Netflix changes it's TV show availability all the time. There's no way they can afford to have all the shows all the time. Perfectly reasonable, but what it means for consumers is that the service is essentially unreliable. Another big problem is that if users can't keep paying the subscription price they lose access.
Subscription services are great supplements to owning media, but they're not a replacement for most people. Everyone I know who subscribes to Netflix/whatever also owns movies.