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> A decent number of media companies now treat their customers like criminals

To the point that the majority of the ways we consume video these days don't even allow us to keep copies locally. Thanks for letting me cache content on mobile devices Amazon, but a big middle finger for not being allowed to do so on my PC so I can actually strip the damned garbage and put it into Plex so everytime I put on a show for my daughter I have to navigate through all the other "offerings" you have available because there's no way for me to just organize and curate what displays on screen.

It's gone beyond just treating customers like criminals, as a result of getting locked into video providers we have to wade through a deluge of adverts for other content instead of being allowed to control our own experience. I'm this far away from just throwing money down to rebuy all my children's content on iTunes and pay the $50 for a DRM removal tool just so I can regain the control I had over my experience like I had when I first started purchasing digital media.

To make things more irritating it's horrendously difficult or simply impossible to actually buy physical media for a lot of things, especially TV shows, these days. Ripping a blu-ray is easy, I have yet to find any solution for stripping Widevine off a streaming video.