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by cube00 3981 days ago
"Please don't download content that you're not legally allowed to."

Being a subscription service I'm pretty sure you're not legally to download any of the content ever.

P.S. Spotify is a good thing and one day I hope movies will move to this model, please don't ruin it!

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Isn't Netflix the Spotify of movies ?
Absolutely, I was thinking around newer releases. Currently new releases are available on Spotify at around the same time they hit the stores.
That is movie industry's fault, mainly exhibitors. I work on a VOD service and we are not allowed to upload the majority of films until a few months past the theater premiere. Every now and then we do a simultaneous release along theaters and even dvd/bluray, but thats not the standard.
As far as they can be. However, the right holders for movies are more paranoid about things than for music. So Netflix only works on some authorised platforms and has lots of DRM wrapping everything. Whereas Spotify have a bit more of a listen how you like as long as you stick to the basic premise that you pay by the month and actually treat it as subscription service model.
Yeah, pretty much, but their library is much smaller.