[grahamburger]

I've often wished that this would happen for movies / music. When I buy a streaming movie on Amazon I'd like to be able to transfer it to Google Play or vice versa.

[euvitudo]

Except the way the movie/music folks look at it is probably the same way they look at VHS, DVD, Blu-ray and BR 4K and so forth or vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD, etc... Apple, Amazon and Google are yet another "format" as it were. More platforms means more money for them.

It's not about the customer--none of them cares, except at that moment in time the customer forks over the cash for it.

[tambienben]

You wouldn't transfer a car to Google Play, would you?

[grahamburger]

I'm not sure what that means. Every way that I can think of to compare movie ownership and car ownership suggests that I should be able to transfer a movie from one service to another.

[craftyguy]

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/piracy-it-s-a-crime

[joshtynjala]

Check out Movies Anywhere.

[drb91]

How do you transfer from movies anywhere to eg your itunes account?

Because otherwise they seem like just another walled garden.

[chungy]

You can connect your Movies Anywhere account to Vudu, Amazon, Google, and/or iTunes. Then your library shows up on those services.

[drb91]

Wow, I stand corrected, that actually seems pretty useful!

[mastax]

Any (participating?) movie on any linked account is automatically added to all linked account libraries (as I remember it).