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>for content you have purchsed (ie: prime) there is nothing stopping them from giving you a file in case they delist the content (Bandcamp is a good example of a service that offers exactly this).

Sometimes you aren't purchasing the content and are instead getting a license because Amazon doesn't have the contractual right to sell you the content because they are also just licensing it rather than owning it themselves.

>this may be more of a political stance, but most of this content is produced by huge media corporations with deep pockets and histories of nefarious business practices. do i really care if disney gets paid for their content? no not really. if they amortize this loss by paying their employees less than that says more about them than it does about anyone pirating from them.

Disney isn't the content creator I am talking about. I am instead referring to the actual individuals that were hands-on with the creation of the content. One of the primary reasons that HBO Max is removing content is they don't want to pay residuals to the individual artists involved in creating the removed shows. Keeping those shows on the platform means HBO Max would have to literally send out checks to the writers, actors, etc. who have negotiated for those ongoing payments. They would never have gotten those checks at all if you never pay for that content.