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[–] scottywh 4 points 9 months ago

I've worked in IT for over 26 years, have my own Plex server in my home (that's also connected directly to the TV in my living room via HDMI), and own and use several laptops.

Still, I've "bought" a number of movies from Microsoft largely thanks to the fact that I can sync them to multiple services using Movies Anywhere and because they were basically "free" to me because Microsoft kept giving me $5 gift cards randomly for a while there and I couldn't think of anything better to use them on at the time.

I'd still be upset if they suddenly decided to yank those titles out of my library even though I don't really rely on them as my only option to watch those films.