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> The person can’t legally access the content at all, due to age, country of residence, or other imposed barrier

I buy stuff on iTunes then pirate it in my preferred format. Same for ebooks, audiobooks, etc. Not going to risk it disappearing.

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Or being edited. I (perhaps naively) didn't realise that happened to any real degree, but there was a thread on reddit today where someone had noticed that a series they wanted to stream had been retroactively edited to remove the music they liked from it.

Archiving media by torrenting or ripping a stream is the closest we can get to owning media in this subscription based world we live in. Of course there's physical media, with the associated drawbacks others have mentioned (availability, ads, FBI warnings, etc).

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Itunes does not use DRM.

Pretty sure it does for movies, or at least you need to go through hassle to play it in your preferred form factor.

iTunes uses FairPlay DRM for tv shows and movies (at least).

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