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hmm... i'm not sure that's how it works.

if i watch a movie in a cinema I will see it, right? I just take one more step and record my movie in the cinema so i can see it later.

also, just because you can see/hear/taste/etc something in a given set of conditions does not mean that you have the right to re-experience it in perpetuity for free.

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I think the comparison is not accurate. According to you, the person you are answering to would only have to listen to the song somewhere. In reality, the movie you are mentioning isn’t being shown to him in the cinema (when watching something on YouTube) but instead he is given a CD (or USB stick, …) to put into a CD-drive (or port) in the cinema to start the movie. After the movie is finished, the person watching the movie leaves and the movie stays at the cinema but OP has „infinite“ access to it unless the cinema decides not to show it anymore. However, that’s still not how it works because I’m sure YouTube has some licensing going on.

I think it's more like you have access to the cinema 24/7 and you pay by watching ads between movies.

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