For those who might still think (understandably) that the precarious issues with digital ownership only plague people who move to a different country, here's some more info on it -
It’s complicated. Very complicated.
www.forbes.com
And a few gems from this article -
"A US Resident tells me he bought
Valerian, but then the movie apparently changed studio ownership resulting in the film being removed from his account. And the only way to get it back was to rebuy the same film again at full price."
"A Canadian contact says he purchased seasons 1-4 of
The Americans as a package deal, then season 5 separately. But the series was then removed from iTunes and replaced with a season's 1-5 package, which leads to him no longer being able to access the 1-4 package."
"A New Yorker told me he has had movies disappear from iTunes, some of which reappeared on the store 6 months later, but in a different edition requiring a new purchase. He was offered three free rentals and told he should download his movies ‘as the studios can remove them’."
"Another US user tells me he has lost films on multiple occasions, and that he has been told essentially that Apple has changed/upgraded/removed them and there is nothing they can do."
"Two US iTunes users have both told me that their purchases of
Iron Man 2,
Thor and
Captain America were recently downgraded to ‘no iTunes Extra’ versions."
Digital ownership is not ownership. It's just a license rental.