Heck, I believed it. That, for me, was the main pull of buying on iTunes vs. streaming, because (not being in the US) I've been burned one too many times by streaming services pulling content because their license ran out.

If iTunes might pull content I purchased at any time, that does make me rethink the whole thing.

> If iTunes might pull content I purchased at any time, that does make me rethink the whole thing.

Having spent well into the 4 digits, maybe 5, I’m rethinking this too. I feel like I’m being held hostage.

Perhaps Apple should begin explicitly telling consumers for how long they think it's reasonable to expect the content to be there.

As there's no physical degradation of a storage medium associated with a hosted service, I'd expect a service to be able to remain longer that a physical copy I purchase.

If that doesn't happen that's down to the business interests of the seller and those are not something consumers typically have to account for when buying media.

I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people believe that now and as near as possible to everyone believed that when the concept was fairly new and novel.

I am. Apple needs to prove i m unreasonable