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> easy business to get into

Good luck getting rental rights.

The very reason modern streaming sucks so much is that every other production company wants to be a streaming distributor; pulling rights from other streaming services.

Just holding a DVD does not give you the rights to lease it out. At least, that's if you believe the legal spiel on the disc.

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You can. The Right of First Sale gives you the ability to do anything you want to your DVD. You can loan it, rent it, mortgage it, whatever. You cannot copy it, so you'll need to buy enough copies to sustain your rental model, but you can certainly rent out DVDs you own. That's how Netflix started.

For clarity, this is indeed the case in the USA and is the huge advantage physical media have. That's why mom and pop video rental stores with their own interesting taste were so common in the late 20th century.

It's possible the OP is from another country with slightly different IP law?

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