[__jal]

This is a red-herring.

Nobody cares about physical access to essentially disposable cameras. The stored footage is the whole game.

[ActorNightly]

Yes, and stored footage is completely optional with Ring cameras.

[throwaway393955]

It's almost impossible to download Ring footage to a local storage medium. They are engineered to force you into their Cloud ecosystem.

[__jal]

Can you point to a page where Ring says this? I cannot find any indication that these work with anything other than their cloud service.