But I wonder what would happen if we had some super-fast rocket drone delivery service so it's just a video rental shop on steroids?
Also, how do you feel about libraries rebinding their books to fix/prevent the books from wearing out?
You can backup software[1][2] (allowed by law, not fair use) but not movies.
[1] https://www.southerncaliforniapatents.com/articles/2014/10/0...
Of course this may be abuse of the fair use backup copy, but when talking digital, we are anyways inventing philosophies.
Other way could be the backup could be entitled to "one last rental" to recoup last 4 bucks or so. I think that would be fair use but others may not.
Streaming is making a copy of the contents, which, if done without a license, usually violates the content owner’s copyright.
I think a reasonable person would see that what you describe is an attempt to make an end run around both the spirit and letter of the law. But what VidAngel was doing was "one copy = one view", which is IMO entirely reasonable. There is zero moral difference between mailing someone a Bluray disc (with instructions -- either automated or manual -- of what parts to skip) vs. keeping that disc in a warehouse and streaming the (censored) contents to exactly one person at a time.