> Also if it ever goes to 4K, iTunes will upgrade it.

And if, as Sony elegantly put it, license term "evolving" happens[0], iTunes will remove it and you won't ever have access to movies you bought.

At this point I don't trust anyone to keep digital purchases. It's either on my harddrive and backup DRM free or I don't actually own it.

[0] https://www.howtogeek.com/817070/your-digital-movies-will-no...

> It's either on my harddrive and backup DRM free or I don't actually own it.

It's quiet confusing that some people don't understand that, considering that's literally the name of it: digital rights management.

You only ever get a temporary permission to play a media with DRM. It's literally the reason for it's inception.

I don't care about the legalese, if the button says "purchase" and not "rent" then I'm going to treat it that way. If you buy a car the manufacturer can't just randomly come and take your keys because their license for the car's paint ran out. And they'd also not get away with it by giving it a fancy "rights management" name and hiding it in some agreement.

Additionally lobbies pushed our government to create what's basically a tax on all digital storage media that's included in the price, based on the assumption that companies lose out on money when I copy music from my PC to my music player etc. Which by the way is my right by law, but they decided I have to pay for that right. No, the most I'm going to do with that DRM license agreement is to wipe my ass with it.

> If you buy a car the manufacturer can't just randomly come and take your keys because their license for the car's paint ran out.

Not yet, at least not for that reason.

That business model is currently being established however and the ability to remotely disabled the car from the seller/manufacturer sides has already been added on a lot of cars, especially electric ones like Tesla etc