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Think you actually own all those movies you’ve been buying
digitally? Think again
A possible class-action lawsuit against Amazon Prime, one
of the world’s biggest platforms for streaming film and television,
has raised an odd question: what does it mean to buy something?
The proposed lawsuit, which was filed last week in
federal court and first reported by the Hollywood Reporter, alleges
that Prime’s practice of offering users the chance to “buy” (as
opposed to “rent”) content is inherently deceptive. The suit argues
that buying something implies perpetual possession – but that
Amazon, like many other streaming services, is really just selling its
customers viewing licenses that can be revoked at any time, in
keeping with fine print that most customers do not read or
understand.
Regardless of whether the lawsuit is ultimately
successful, it speaks to a real problem in an age when people
access films, television series, music and video games through
fickle online platforms: impermanence. The advent of streaming
promised a world of digital riches in which we could access libraries
of our favorite content whenever we wanted. It hasn’t exactly
worked out that way.
Many movie fans are already familiar with a certain
scenario. Let’s say that you are seized, this Friday night, by an urge
to rewatch one of your favorite films, Double Indemnity. (You are a
popular and sociable person – charismatic, attractive, with many
friends – but feel under the weather this weekend.) If you are
especially prudent, you own the film on a physical format – such as
a Criterion Collection Blu-ray – but if not, you just type watch
double indemnity 1944 into a search engine and see what comes
up.
Given that beloved older films and television shows are
increasingly difficult to find on streaming platforms, you will be
relieved to see the film listed on any of the services you subscribe
to, such as Netflix, Hulu or HBO Max. When you click on the links,
however, there is a high chance that one of those dreaded landing
pages appears: “REMIND ME WHEN THIS IS AVAILABLE” or “THIS
TITLE IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN YOUR COUNTRY.”
There are ways to watch the film that don’t
involve paying, but let’s say that you’re a scrupulously honest
person. Fortunately, Amazon Prime has Double Indemnity available
on demand: you can rent the movie, for 48 hours of playback, for
$3.79 – or “buy” it for $14.99. The second option is more
expensive, but if it is truly one of your favorite movies you may
decide to buy it so you can watch it again whenever you want. And
in just a couple of clicks – faster than Barbara Stanwyck can light a
cigarette in the darkened living room of a California villa – the
Paramount logo is blooming on your television screen. Not bad,
right?
The problem is that you aren’t downloading the movie, to
own and watch forever; you’re just getting access to it on Amazon’s
servers – a right that only lasts as long as Amazon also has access to
the film, which depends on capricious licensing agreements that
vary from title to title. A month or five years from now, that license
may expire – and the movie will disappear from your Amazon
library. Yet the $14.99 you paid does not reappear in your pocket.
If you’re a film buff, like me, you may already have heard
of things like this happening. In 2018, users of iTunes who had
purchased titles for their digital libraries were unhappy to learn that the company had deleted some of them without telling them.
Last year, customers of Funimation, an anime streaming service
that was acquired by another company, discovered that the titles
they had purchased from Funimation would not be ported over to
the new platform. Video game and music fans have reported
similar frustrations.
If online chatter is any indication, a class-action lawsuit
against Prime would have some takers. Reacting to the news of the
suit, someone on Reddit described buying the director’s cut of
Aliens from Prime; after watching it for 10 years, “I went to my
purchased movies in the Amazon app and it is now gone. No
explanation and no recourse.”
“Happened to me,” another person wrote. “Bought the
original Battlestar Galactica series. Now it’s gone.”
(Amazon did not respond to my request for comment at
the time of publication.)
Disappointment with streaming’s limitations are a major
reason that many pop culture fans have, in recent years,
returned to a format long thought dying: physical media. Like vinyl
records, which have had an unexpected renaissance, film discs and
other seemingly old-school technologies have been embraced in
recent years by a small but passionate segment of film and TV
buffs. Earlier this year, the first new physical video store in many
years opened in New York.
In particular, movie fans have rediscovered Blu-rays,
which debuted in 2006 as a higher-definition successor to DVDs, as
well as their new and even higher-definition sibling, the 4K UHD,
which has become the gold-standard for “home cinema” enthusiasts. I’m one of those physical-media fans. I have about 400
movies on disc, mostly Blu-rays, hidden in a cabinet beneath my
TV. In the age of streaming, some of my friends think I’m deranged.
But the films look great, don’t need the internet to watch
and – most importantly – never disappear.
From: https://www.theguardian.com/2025/aug/27/
The author of the text looked for examples of practices in the
streaming platforms that were similar to what the mentioned
lawsuit labels as ‘deceptive practice’ and
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Think you actually own all those movies you’ve been buying
digitally? Think again
A possible class-action lawsuit against Amazon Prime, one
of the world’s biggest platforms for streaming film and television,
has raised an odd question: what does it mean to buy something?
The proposed lawsuit, which was filed last week in
federal court and first reported by the Hollywood Reporter, alleges
that Prime’s practice of offering users the chance to “buy” (as
opposed to “rent”) content is inherently deceptive. The suit argues
that buying something implies perpetual possession – but that
Amazon, like many other streaming services, is really just selling its
customers viewing licenses that can be revoked at any time, in
keeping with fine print that most customers do not read or
understand.
Regardless of whether the lawsuit is ultimately
successful, it speaks to a real problem in an age when people
access films, television series, music and video games through
fickle online platforms: impermanence. The advent of streaming
promised a world of digital riches in which we could access libraries
of our favorite content whenever we wanted. It hasn’t exactly
worked out that way.
Many movie fans are already familiar with a certain
scenario. Let’s say that you are seized, this Friday night, by an urge
to rewatch one of your favorite films, Double Indemnity. (You are a
popular and sociable person – charismatic, attractive, with many
friends – but feel under the weather this weekend.) If you are
especially prudent, you own the film on a physical format – such as
a Criterion Collection Blu-ray – but if not, you just type watch
double indemnity 1944 into a search engine and see what comes
up.
Given that beloved older films and television shows are
increasingly difficult to find on streaming platforms, you will be
relieved to see the film listed on any of the services you subscribe
to, such as Netflix, Hulu or HBO Max. When you click on the links,
however, there is a high chance that one of those dreaded landing
pages appears: “REMIND ME WHEN THIS IS AVAILABLE” or “THIS
TITLE IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN YOUR COUNTRY.”
There are ways to watch the film that don’t
involve paying, but let’s say that you’re a scrupulously honest
person. Fortunately, Amazon Prime has Double Indemnity available
on demand: you can rent the movie, for 48 hours of playback, for
$3.79 – or “buy” it for $14.99. The second option is more
expensive, but if it is truly one of your favorite movies you may
decide to buy it so you can watch it again whenever you want. And
in just a couple of clicks – faster than Barbara Stanwyck can light a
cigarette in the darkened living room of a California villa – the
Paramount logo is blooming on your television screen. Not bad,
right?
The problem is that you aren’t downloading the movie, to
own and watch forever; you’re just getting access to it on Amazon’s
servers – a right that only lasts as long as Amazon also has access to
the film, which depends on capricious licensing agreements that
vary from title to title. A month or five years from now, that license
may expire – and the movie will disappear from your Amazon
library. Yet the $14.99 you paid does not reappear in your pocket.
If you’re a film buff, like me, you may already have heard
of things like this happening. In 2018, users of iTunes who had
purchased titles for their digital libraries were unhappy to learn that the company had deleted some of them without telling them.
Last year, customers of Funimation, an anime streaming service
that was acquired by another company, discovered that the titles
they had purchased from Funimation would not be ported over to
the new platform. Video game and music fans have reported
similar frustrations.
If online chatter is any indication, a class-action lawsuit
against Prime would have some takers. Reacting to the news of the
suit, someone on Reddit described buying the director’s cut of
Aliens from Prime; after watching it for 10 years, “I went to my
purchased movies in the Amazon app and it is now gone. No
explanation and no recourse.”
“Happened to me,” another person wrote. “Bought the
original Battlestar Galactica series. Now it’s gone.”
(Amazon did not respond to my request for comment at
the time of publication.)
Disappointment with streaming’s limitations are a major
reason that many pop culture fans have, in recent years,
returned to a format long thought dying: physical media. Like vinyl
records, which have had an unexpected renaissance, film discs and
other seemingly old-school technologies have been embraced in
recent years by a small but passionate segment of film and TV
buffs. Earlier this year, the first new physical video store in many
years opened in New York.
In particular, movie fans have rediscovered Blu-rays,
which debuted in 2006 as a higher-definition successor to DVDs, as
well as their new and even higher-definition sibling, the 4K UHD,
which has become the gold-standard for “home cinema” enthusiasts. I’m one of those physical-media fans. I have about 400
movies on disc, mostly Blu-rays, hidden in a cabinet beneath my
TV. In the age of streaming, some of my friends think I’m deranged.
But the films look great, don’t need the internet to watch
and – most importantly – never disappear.
From: https://www.theguardian.com/2025/aug/27/
In the circumstance of purchasing a film from a streaming
platform, in case the access to the product is interrupted,
according to the text, the customer is
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Think you actually own all those movies you’ve been buying
digitally? Think again
A possible class-action lawsuit against Amazon Prime, one
of the world’s biggest platforms for streaming film and television,
has raised an odd question: what does it mean to buy something?
The proposed lawsuit, which was filed last week in
federal court and first reported by the Hollywood Reporter, alleges
that Prime’s practice of offering users the chance to “buy” (as
opposed to “rent”) content is inherently deceptive. The suit argues
that buying something implies perpetual possession – but that
Amazon, like many other streaming services, is really just selling its
customers viewing licenses that can be revoked at any time, in
keeping with fine print that most customers do not read or
understand.
Regardless of whether the lawsuit is ultimately
successful, it speaks to a real problem in an age when people
access films, television series, music and video games through
fickle online platforms: impermanence. The advent of streaming
promised a world of digital riches in which we could access libraries
of our favorite content whenever we wanted. It hasn’t exactly
worked out that way.
Many movie fans are already familiar with a certain
scenario. Let’s say that you are seized, this Friday night, by an urge
to rewatch one of your favorite films, Double Indemnity. (You are a
popular and sociable person – charismatic, attractive, with many
friends – but feel under the weather this weekend.) If you are
especially prudent, you own the film on a physical format – such as
a Criterion Collection Blu-ray – but if not, you just type watch
double indemnity 1944 into a search engine and see what comes
up.
Given that beloved older films and television shows are
increasingly difficult to find on streaming platforms, you will be
relieved to see the film listed on any of the services you subscribe
to, such as Netflix, Hulu or HBO Max. When you click on the links,
however, there is a high chance that one of those dreaded landing
pages appears: “REMIND ME WHEN THIS IS AVAILABLE” or “THIS
TITLE IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN YOUR COUNTRY.”
There are ways to watch the film that don’t
involve paying, but let’s say that you’re a scrupulously honest
person. Fortunately, Amazon Prime has Double Indemnity available
on demand: you can rent the movie, for 48 hours of playback, for
$3.79 – or “buy” it for $14.99. The second option is more
expensive, but if it is truly one of your favorite movies you may
decide to buy it so you can watch it again whenever you want. And
in just a couple of clicks – faster than Barbara Stanwyck can light a
cigarette in the darkened living room of a California villa – the
Paramount logo is blooming on your television screen. Not bad,
right?
The problem is that you aren’t downloading the movie, to
own and watch forever; you’re just getting access to it on Amazon’s
servers – a right that only lasts as long as Amazon also has access to
the film, which depends on capricious licensing agreements that
vary from title to title. A month or five years from now, that license
may expire – and the movie will disappear from your Amazon
library. Yet the $14.99 you paid does not reappear in your pocket.
If you’re a film buff, like me, you may already have heard
of things like this happening. In 2018, users of iTunes who had
purchased titles for their digital libraries were unhappy to learn that the company had deleted some of them without telling them.
Last year, customers of Funimation, an anime streaming service
that was acquired by another company, discovered that the titles
they had purchased from Funimation would not be ported over to
the new platform. Video game and music fans have reported
similar frustrations.
If online chatter is any indication, a class-action lawsuit
against Prime would have some takers. Reacting to the news of the
suit, someone on Reddit described buying the director’s cut of
Aliens from Prime; after watching it for 10 years, “I went to my
purchased movies in the Amazon app and it is now gone. No
explanation and no recourse.”
“Happened to me,” another person wrote. “Bought the
original Battlestar Galactica series. Now it’s gone.”
(Amazon did not respond to my request for comment at
the time of publication.)
Disappointment with streaming’s limitations are a major
reason that many pop culture fans have, in recent years,
returned to a format long thought dying: physical media. Like vinyl
records, which have had an unexpected renaissance, film discs and
other seemingly old-school technologies have been embraced in
recent years by a small but passionate segment of film and TV
buffs. Earlier this year, the first new physical video store in many
years opened in New York.
In particular, movie fans have rediscovered Blu-rays,
which debuted in 2006 as a higher-definition successor to DVDs, as
well as their new and even higher-definition sibling, the 4K UHD,
which has become the gold-standard for “home cinema” enthusiasts. I’m one of those physical-media fans. I have about 400
movies on disc, mostly Blu-rays, hidden in a cabinet beneath my
TV. In the age of streaming, some of my friends think I’m deranged.
But the films look great, don’t need the internet to watch
and – most importantly – never disappear.
From: https://www.theguardian.com/2025/aug/27/
The text explains what really happens when a person decides
to buy a film from a streaming platform, exemplifying with Amazon
Prime. In such a dealing, the person
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Think you actually own all those movies you’ve been buying
digitally? Think again
A possible class-action lawsuit against Amazon Prime, one
of the world’s biggest platforms for streaming film and television,
has raised an odd question: what does it mean to buy something?
The proposed lawsuit, which was filed last week in
federal court and first reported by the Hollywood Reporter, alleges
that Prime’s practice of offering users the chance to “buy” (as
opposed to “rent”) content is inherently deceptive. The suit argues
that buying something implies perpetual possession – but that
Amazon, like many other streaming services, is really just selling its
customers viewing licenses that can be revoked at any time, in
keeping with fine print that most customers do not read or
understand.
Regardless of whether the lawsuit is ultimately
successful, it speaks to a real problem in an age when people
access films, television series, music and video games through
fickle online platforms: impermanence. The advent of streaming
promised a world of digital riches in which we could access libraries
of our favorite content whenever we wanted. It hasn’t exactly
worked out that way.
Many movie fans are already familiar with a certain
scenario. Let’s say that you are seized, this Friday night, by an urge
to rewatch one of your favorite films, Double Indemnity. (You are a
popular and sociable person – charismatic, attractive, with many
friends – but feel under the weather this weekend.) If you are
especially prudent, you own the film on a physical format – such as
a Criterion Collection Blu-ray – but if not, you just type watch
double indemnity 1944 into a search engine and see what comes
up.
Given that beloved older films and television shows are
increasingly difficult to find on streaming platforms, you will be
relieved to see the film listed on any of the services you subscribe
to, such as Netflix, Hulu or HBO Max. When you click on the links,
however, there is a high chance that one of those dreaded landing
pages appears: “REMIND ME WHEN THIS IS AVAILABLE” or “THIS
TITLE IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN YOUR COUNTRY.”
There are ways to watch the film that don’t
involve paying, but let’s say that you’re a scrupulously honest
person. Fortunately, Amazon Prime has Double Indemnity available
on demand: you can rent the movie, for 48 hours of playback, for
$3.79 – or “buy” it for $14.99. The second option is more
expensive, but if it is truly one of your favorite movies you may
decide to buy it so you can watch it again whenever you want. And
in just a couple of clicks – faster than Barbara Stanwyck can light a
cigarette in the darkened living room of a California villa – the
Paramount logo is blooming on your television screen. Not bad,
right?
The problem is that you aren’t downloading the movie, to
own and watch forever; you’re just getting access to it on Amazon’s
servers – a right that only lasts as long as Amazon also has access to
the film, which depends on capricious licensing agreements that
vary from title to title. A month or five years from now, that license
may expire – and the movie will disappear from your Amazon
library. Yet the $14.99 you paid does not reappear in your pocket.
If you’re a film buff, like me, you may already have heard
of things like this happening. In 2018, users of iTunes who had
purchased titles for their digital libraries were unhappy to learn that the company had deleted some of them without telling them.
Last year, customers of Funimation, an anime streaming service
that was acquired by another company, discovered that the titles
they had purchased from Funimation would not be ported over to
the new platform. Video game and music fans have reported
similar frustrations.
If online chatter is any indication, a class-action lawsuit
against Prime would have some takers. Reacting to the news of the
suit, someone on Reddit described buying the director’s cut of
Aliens from Prime; after watching it for 10 years, “I went to my
purchased movies in the Amazon app and it is now gone. No
explanation and no recourse.”
“Happened to me,” another person wrote. “Bought the
original Battlestar Galactica series. Now it’s gone.”
(Amazon did not respond to my request for comment at
the time of publication.)
Disappointment with streaming’s limitations are a major
reason that many pop culture fans have, in recent years,
returned to a format long thought dying: physical media. Like vinyl
records, which have had an unexpected renaissance, film discs and
other seemingly old-school technologies have been embraced in
recent years by a small but passionate segment of film and TV
buffs. Earlier this year, the first new physical video store in many
years opened in New York.
In particular, movie fans have rediscovered Blu-rays,
which debuted in 2006 as a higher-definition successor to DVDs, as
well as their new and even higher-definition sibling, the 4K UHD,
which has become the gold-standard for “home cinema” enthusiasts. I’m one of those physical-media fans. I have about 400
movies on disc, mostly Blu-rays, hidden in a cabinet beneath my
TV. In the age of streaming, some of my friends think I’m deranged.
But the films look great, don’t need the internet to watch
and – most importantly – never disappear.
From: https://www.theguardian.com/2025/aug/27/
According to the author, because of constraints related to
streamings as reported in the text, what seemed to be an
improbable thing is happening now: the revival of physical media.
Mentioned as an example is the opening of
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Think you actually own all those movies you’ve been buying
digitally? Think again
A possible class-action lawsuit against Amazon Prime, one
of the world’s biggest platforms for streaming film and television,
has raised an odd question: what does it mean to buy something?
The proposed lawsuit, which was filed last week in
federal court and first reported by the Hollywood Reporter, alleges
that Prime’s practice of offering users the chance to “buy” (as
opposed to “rent”) content is inherently deceptive. The suit argues
that buying something implies perpetual possession – but that
Amazon, like many other streaming services, is really just selling its
customers viewing licenses that can be revoked at any time, in
keeping with fine print that most customers do not read or
understand.
Regardless of whether the lawsuit is ultimately
successful, it speaks to a real problem in an age when people
access films, television series, music and video games through
fickle online platforms: impermanence. The advent of streaming
promised a world of digital riches in which we could access libraries
of our favorite content whenever we wanted. It hasn’t exactly
worked out that way.
Many movie fans are already familiar with a certain
scenario. Let’s say that you are seized, this Friday night, by an urge
to rewatch one of your favorite films, Double Indemnity. (You are a
popular and sociable person – charismatic, attractive, with many
friends – but feel under the weather this weekend.) If you are
especially prudent, you own the film on a physical format – such as
a Criterion Collection Blu-ray – but if not, you just type watch
double indemnity 1944 into a search engine and see what comes
up.
Given that beloved older films and television shows are
increasingly difficult to find on streaming platforms, you will be
relieved to see the film listed on any of the services you subscribe
to, such as Netflix, Hulu or HBO Max. When you click on the links,
however, there is a high chance that one of those dreaded landing
pages appears: “REMIND ME WHEN THIS IS AVAILABLE” or “THIS
TITLE IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN YOUR COUNTRY.”
There are ways to watch the film that don’t
involve paying, but let’s say that you’re a scrupulously honest
person. Fortunately, Amazon Prime has Double Indemnity available
on demand: you can rent the movie, for 48 hours of playback, for
$3.79 – or “buy” it for $14.99. The second option is more
expensive, but if it is truly one of your favorite movies you may
decide to buy it so you can watch it again whenever you want. And
in just a couple of clicks – faster than Barbara Stanwyck can light a
cigarette in the darkened living room of a California villa – the
Paramount logo is blooming on your television screen. Not bad,
right?
The problem is that you aren’t downloading the movie, to
own and watch forever; you’re just getting access to it on Amazon’s
servers – a right that only lasts as long as Amazon also has access to
the film, which depends on capricious licensing agreements that
vary from title to title. A month or five years from now, that license
may expire – and the movie will disappear from your Amazon
library. Yet the $14.99 you paid does not reappear in your pocket.
If you’re a film buff, like me, you may already have heard
of things like this happening. In 2018, users of iTunes who had
purchased titles for their digital libraries were unhappy to learn that the company had deleted some of them without telling them.
Last year, customers of Funimation, an anime streaming service
that was acquired by another company, discovered that the titles
they had purchased from Funimation would not be ported over to
the new platform. Video game and music fans have reported
similar frustrations.
If online chatter is any indication, a class-action lawsuit
against Prime would have some takers. Reacting to the news of the
suit, someone on Reddit described buying the director’s cut of
Aliens from Prime; after watching it for 10 years, “I went to my
purchased movies in the Amazon app and it is now gone. No
explanation and no recourse.”
“Happened to me,” another person wrote. “Bought the
original Battlestar Galactica series. Now it’s gone.”
(Amazon did not respond to my request for comment at
the time of publication.)
Disappointment with streaming’s limitations are a major
reason that many pop culture fans have, in recent years,
returned to a format long thought dying: physical media. Like vinyl
records, which have had an unexpected renaissance, film discs and
other seemingly old-school technologies have been embraced in
recent years by a small but passionate segment of film and TV
buffs. Earlier this year, the first new physical video store in many
years opened in New York.
In particular, movie fans have rediscovered Blu-rays,
which debuted in 2006 as a higher-definition successor to DVDs, as
well as their new and even higher-definition sibling, the 4K UHD,
which has become the gold-standard for “home cinema” enthusiasts. I’m one of those physical-media fans. I have about 400
movies on disc, mostly Blu-rays, hidden in a cabinet beneath my
TV. In the age of streaming, some of my friends think I’m deranged.
But the films look great, don’t need the internet to watch
and – most importantly – never disappear.
From: https://www.theguardian.com/2025/aug/27/
It is mentioned in the text that, in the early days of
streaming, people were assured they would get access to all types
of materials of their choice the moment they wanted. That
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Think you actually own all those movies you’ve been buying
digitally? Think again
A possible class-action lawsuit against Amazon Prime, one
of the world’s biggest platforms for streaming film and television,
has raised an odd question: what does it mean to buy something?
The proposed lawsuit, which was filed last week in
federal court and first reported by the Hollywood Reporter, alleges
that Prime’s practice of offering users the chance to “buy” (as
opposed to “rent”) content is inherently deceptive. The suit argues
that buying something implies perpetual possession – but that
Amazon, like many other streaming services, is really just selling its
customers viewing licenses that can be revoked at any time, in
keeping with fine print that most customers do not read or
understand.
Regardless of whether the lawsuit is ultimately
successful, it speaks to a real problem in an age when people
access films, television series, music and video games through
fickle online platforms: impermanence. The advent of streaming
promised a world of digital riches in which we could access libraries
of our favorite content whenever we wanted. It hasn’t exactly
worked out that way.
Many movie fans are already familiar with a certain
scenario. Let’s say that you are seized, this Friday night, by an urge
to rewatch one of your favorite films, Double Indemnity. (You are a
popular and sociable person – charismatic, attractive, with many
friends – but feel under the weather this weekend.) If you are
especially prudent, you own the film on a physical format – such as
a Criterion Collection Blu-ray – but if not, you just type watch
double indemnity 1944 into a search engine and see what comes
up.
Given that beloved older films and television shows are
increasingly difficult to find on streaming platforms, you will be
relieved to see the film listed on any of the services you subscribe
to, such as Netflix, Hulu or HBO Max. When you click on the links,
however, there is a high chance that one of those dreaded landing
pages appears: “REMIND ME WHEN THIS IS AVAILABLE” or “THIS
TITLE IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN YOUR COUNTRY.”
There are ways to watch the film that don’t
involve paying, but let’s say that you’re a scrupulously honest
person. Fortunately, Amazon Prime has Double Indemnity available
on demand: you can rent the movie, for 48 hours of playback, for
$3.79 – or “buy” it for $14.99. The second option is more
expensive, but if it is truly one of your favorite movies you may
decide to buy it so you can watch it again whenever you want. And
in just a couple of clicks – faster than Barbara Stanwyck can light a
cigarette in the darkened living room of a California villa – the
Paramount logo is blooming on your television screen. Not bad,
right?
The problem is that you aren’t downloading the movie, to
own and watch forever; you’re just getting access to it on Amazon’s
servers – a right that only lasts as long as Amazon also has access to
the film, which depends on capricious licensing agreements that
vary from title to title. A month or five years from now, that license
may expire – and the movie will disappear from your Amazon
library. Yet the $14.99 you paid does not reappear in your pocket.
If you’re a film buff, like me, you may already have heard
of things like this happening. In 2018, users of iTunes who had
purchased titles for their digital libraries were unhappy to learn that the company had deleted some of them without telling them.
Last year, customers of Funimation, an anime streaming service
that was acquired by another company, discovered that the titles
they had purchased from Funimation would not be ported over to
the new platform. Video game and music fans have reported
similar frustrations.
If online chatter is any indication, a class-action lawsuit
against Prime would have some takers. Reacting to the news of the
suit, someone on Reddit described buying the director’s cut of
Aliens from Prime; after watching it for 10 years, “I went to my
purchased movies in the Amazon app and it is now gone. No
explanation and no recourse.”
“Happened to me,” another person wrote. “Bought the
original Battlestar Galactica series. Now it’s gone.”
(Amazon did not respond to my request for comment at
the time of publication.)
Disappointment with streaming’s limitations are a major
reason that many pop culture fans have, in recent years,
returned to a format long thought dying: physical media. Like vinyl
records, which have had an unexpected renaissance, film discs and
other seemingly old-school technologies have been embraced in
recent years by a small but passionate segment of film and TV
buffs. Earlier this year, the first new physical video store in many
years opened in New York.
In particular, movie fans have rediscovered Blu-rays,
which debuted in 2006 as a higher-definition successor to DVDs, as
well as their new and even higher-definition sibling, the 4K UHD,
which has become the gold-standard for “home cinema” enthusiasts. I’m one of those physical-media fans. I have about 400
movies on disc, mostly Blu-rays, hidden in a cabinet beneath my
TV. In the age of streaming, some of my friends think I’m deranged.
But the films look great, don’t need the internet to watch
and – most importantly – never disappear.
From: https://www.theguardian.com/2025/aug/27/
According to the text, a lawsuit against Amazon Prime has
brought into question the idea of ‘buying’ because the word
implicitly contains the notion of
Ano: 2025
Banca:
FURB
Órgão:
SED-SC
Prova:
FURB - 2025 - SED-SC - Professor - Segunda Língua Estrangeira Inglês - Edital nº 3.021 |
Q3810835
Inglês
Read the excerpt below from the 1982 short story The
body , by Stephen King:
"We had a tree house in a big tree which hung over some empty ground in Castle Rock. It was a kind of club, although it had no name. [...] The sides of the tree house were made out of wood, and the roof was metal we had taken from the dump, looking over our shoulders all the time because the manager of the dump had a dog which ate children for breakfast, or so people said."
According to the text, "because the manager of the dump had a dog which ate children for breakfast" is the answer to which question?
"We had a tree house in a big tree which hung over some empty ground in Castle Rock. It was a kind of club, although it had no name. [...] The sides of the tree house were made out of wood, and the roof was metal we had taken from the dump, looking over our shoulders all the time because the manager of the dump had a dog which ate children for breakfast, or so people said."
According to the text, "because the manager of the dump had a dog which ate children for breakfast" is the answer to which question?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
FURB
Órgão:
SED-SC
Prova:
FURB - 2025 - SED-SC - Professor - Segunda Língua Estrangeira Inglês - Edital nº 3.021 |
Q3810829
Inglês
Texto associado
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à
questão.
AI helps spread new stereotypes across
cultures
All cultures around the world have their own stereotypes
related to gender, age, or nationality. Some are
well-known, such as the idea that blondes are dumb or
that engineers are men, while others are more local —
like the cunning of people from Rio de Janeiro or the
belief that Pakistanis are conservative. With the rise of
AI-powered chatbots, this questionable cultural baggage
is now spreading across the globe, according to a new
study.
AI incorporates stereotypes about people from what
people say online, and then uses them as if they were
part of the world's general knowledge," says Margaret
Mitchell, lead researcher of the study and Chief Ethics
Scientist at Hugging Face, a company focused on
open-source AI models. "Everything is based on what is
known in English — in English-speaking culture,
especially in the U.S. — and then maybe it gets
translated into other languages, but without capturing
international nuances. And if these language models are
supposed to be general-purpose and work for everyone,
then in theory, they should be able to pick up on those
differences."
Together with a team of researchers fluent in 16
languages, Mitchell created a list of more than 300
stereotypes from around the world. With this material, the
researchers manually created a system to generate
questions about these topics, using different tones and
angles, which they then posed to several open-source AI
models.
Excerpt from: COLOMÉ, Jordi. AI helps spread new
stereotypes across cultures. El País, 2025. Available on:
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-06-24/ai-help
s-spread-new-stereotypes-across-cultures.html. Access
on October 28th 2025.
COLOMÉ, Jordi. AI helps spread new stereotypes across cultures. El
País, 2025. Available on:
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-06-24/ai-helps-spread-newstereotypes-across-cultures.html. Access on October 28th 2025.
According to the text, what are AI-powered chatbots
helping to spread?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
FUVEST
Órgão:
USP
Prova:
FUVEST - 2025 - USP - Técnico de Laboratório (Estruturas) |
Q3808776
Inglês
Observe a imagem a seguir:
Em relação à imagem apresentada, assinale a alternativa correta.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
VUNESP
Órgão:
A.C. Camargo Cancer Center
Provas:
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Psicologia
|
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Odontologia com Ênfase em Estomatologia |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Nutrição |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Fonoaudiologia |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Fisioterapia |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Física Médica |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Enfemagem |
Q3808677
Inglês
Texto associado
Read the following text to answer questions
The sum of the three main sources of background radiation – cosmic, terrestrial and internal – is about 2.4 mSv and is the annual whole-body dose equivalent arising from natural radiation. It must be emphasized that this is a global average dose, which may vary. There are several studies looking into the impact of high background radiation doses on humans and the possible long-term consequences of chronic exposure to such doses.
With respect to man-made radiation, the most significant source of exposure to the public is from medical procedures, which includes diagnostic X-rays, nuclear medicine, and radiation therapy. Medical exposure accounts for the largest radiation exposure to the population, after the natural background radiation. The advances in medical investigations, the important role of prevention through early diagnosis and also the aging population, are all factors leading to an increase in the number of diagnostic procedures. It is, therefore, important to find the balance between radiological exposure and the associated benefit to the patient. In order to reduce the risks of any deleterious effects from medical exposure, this should be limited as much as possible, especially in children, who are more susceptible to radiation-induced adverse events than adults.
(Bezak et al. Johns and Cunningham’s The Physics of Radiology, 2021. Adaptado
Com base nas informações apresentadas no texto,
é correto afirmar que
Ano: 2025
Banca:
VUNESP
Órgão:
A.C. Camargo Cancer Center
Provas:
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Psicologia
|
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Odontologia com Ênfase em Estomatologia |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Nutrição |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Fonoaudiologia |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Fisioterapia |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Física Médica |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Enfemagem |
Q3808676
Inglês
Texto associado
Read the following text to answer questions
The sum of the three main sources of background radiation – cosmic, terrestrial and internal – is about 2.4 mSv and is the annual whole-body dose equivalent arising from natural radiation. It must be emphasized that this is a global average dose, which may vary. There are several studies looking into the impact of high background radiation doses on humans and the possible long-term consequences of chronic exposure to such doses.
With respect to man-made radiation, the most significant source of exposure to the public is from medical procedures, which includes diagnostic X-rays, nuclear medicine, and radiation therapy. Medical exposure accounts for the largest radiation exposure to the population, after the natural background radiation. The advances in medical investigations, the important role of prevention through early diagnosis and also the aging population, are all factors leading to an increase in the number of diagnostic procedures. It is, therefore, important to find the balance between radiological exposure and the associated benefit to the patient. In order to reduce the risks of any deleterious effects from medical exposure, this should be limited as much as possible, especially in children, who are more susceptible to radiation-induced adverse events than adults.
(Bezak et al. Johns and Cunningham’s The Physics of Radiology, 2021. Adaptado
According to the excerpt, the authors aim to emphasize the
Ano: 2025
Banca:
VUNESP
Órgão:
A.C. Camargo Cancer Center
Provas:
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Psicologia
|
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Odontologia com Ênfase em Estomatologia |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Nutrição |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Fonoaudiologia |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Fisioterapia |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Física Médica |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Enfemagem |
Q3808675
Inglês
Texto associado
Read the following text to answer questions
Effective communication is central to the clinicianpatient encounter. When the patient’s needs and concerns are well understood through a biopsychosocial formulation, then a comprehensive care plan can be mutually agreed on. Communication skills training (CST) has become one vehicle to build skills that optimally advance the clinical agenda, alongside promoting professionalism and excellence of care. Good communication skills have been linked to higher patient satisfaction, greater patient adherence to treatment, better patient health outcomes, fewer physician malpractice claims, reduced patient anxiety, increased recall, and improved understanding.
Patients with cancer report unmet communication needs for information about the extent of disease, prognosis, and treatment options, intent, and adverse effects. This is consistent with earlier studies on communication in clinical encounters. When the clinician is responsive to patients’ needs, their anxiety levels have been significantly reduced.
In this article, we propose the establishment of a universal CST curriculum for fellows of all cancer specialties that builds their professionalism and sustains effective clinician-patient communication throughout their careers.
(https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3341141/. 06.08.2025. Adaptado)
Com base no contexto do trecho, a primeira sentença do
segundo parágrafo “Patients with cancer report unmet
communication needs for information about the extent
of disease, prognosis, and treatment options, intent, and
adverse effects” indica que
Ano: 2025
Banca:
VUNESP
Órgão:
A.C. Camargo Cancer Center
Provas:
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Psicologia
|
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Odontologia com Ênfase em Estomatologia |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Nutrição |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Fonoaudiologia |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Fisioterapia |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Física Médica |
VUNESP - 2025 - A.C. Camargo Cancer Center - Residência Multiprofissional - Enfemagem |
Q3808673
Inglês
Texto associado
Read the following text to answer questions
Effective communication is central to the clinicianpatient encounter. When the patient’s needs and concerns are well understood through a biopsychosocial formulation, then a comprehensive care plan can be mutually agreed on. Communication skills training (CST) has become one vehicle to build skills that optimally advance the clinical agenda, alongside promoting professionalism and excellence of care. Good communication skills have been linked to higher patient satisfaction, greater patient adherence to treatment, better patient health outcomes, fewer physician malpractice claims, reduced patient anxiety, increased recall, and improved understanding.
Patients with cancer report unmet communication needs for information about the extent of disease, prognosis, and treatment options, intent, and adverse effects. This is consistent with earlier studies on communication in clinical encounters. When the clinician is responsive to patients’ needs, their anxiety levels have been significantly reduced.
In this article, we propose the establishment of a universal CST curriculum for fellows of all cancer specialties that builds their professionalism and sustains effective clinician-patient communication throughout their careers.
(https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3341141/. 06.08.2025. Adaptado)
According to the excerpt, the most appropriate title for the
article is:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Instituto Ágata
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Juruti - PA
Prova:
Instituto Ágata - 2025 - Prefeitura de Juruti - PA - Professor de Língua Inglesa |
Q3806774
Inglês
Texto associado
Read the excert to answer the question.
In the Common Core National Curriculum (Base Nacional Comum Curricular, or BNCC) for basic education which came into
effect in 2018, the declared ideological basis was a preoccupation with citizenship seen as a concern with the quality of
education in Brazil with its extreme regional differences. It is intended to overcome the perceived shortcomings of previous
national curricula, such as the […] National Curriculum Document (Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, or PCN`s), which were
based on the homogeneous educational needs, demands and characterisitcs of the largely urban, industrial and prosperous
Southeast of the country. With a lack of adequate funding for materials and teacher education in the rest of the country, it
is claimed that the previous curricula ended up privileging learners in the Southeast who received an adequate education,
and created a divide with the rest of the country whose needs, demands, and largely rural characteristics were not attended
to, thus prejudicing equality of opportunities and citizenship. The BNCC then proceeds to offer the possibility of a “commom
core” model of which at least 60% of its content needs to be covered nationally, while 40% can be “complemented” regionally by schools systems. What concern us here is how the teaching of languages is portrayed In the BNCC, and the political
implications of this.
(Available at: Menezes de Souza, L. M. T. Coloniality, epistemicide, and language learning in Brazil. In: Multilingual Nations, Monolingual Schools: Confronting colonial language policies across the Americas. New York: Teachers College Press, p. 64, 2024 )
Based on the excerpt “What concerns us here is how the teaching of languages is portrayed in the BNCC, and the political
implications of this,” mark the sentence that best represents the main concern expressed.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Instituto Ágata
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Juruti - PA
Prova:
Instituto Ágata - 2025 - Prefeitura de Juruti - PA - Professor de Língua Inglesa |
Q3806773
Inglês
Texto associado
Read the excert to answer the question.
In the Common Core National Curriculum (Base Nacional Comum Curricular, or BNCC) for basic education which came into
effect in 2018, the declared ideological basis was a preoccupation with citizenship seen as a concern with the quality of
education in Brazil with its extreme regional differences. It is intended to overcome the perceived shortcomings of previous
national curricula, such as the […] National Curriculum Document (Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, or PCN`s), which were
based on the homogeneous educational needs, demands and characterisitcs of the largely urban, industrial and prosperous
Southeast of the country. With a lack of adequate funding for materials and teacher education in the rest of the country, it
is claimed that the previous curricula ended up privileging learners in the Southeast who received an adequate education,
and created a divide with the rest of the country whose needs, demands, and largely rural characteristics were not attended
to, thus prejudicing equality of opportunities and citizenship. The BNCC then proceeds to offer the possibility of a “commom
core” model of which at least 60% of its content needs to be covered nationally, while 40% can be “complemented” regionally by schools systems. What concern us here is how the teaching of languages is portrayed In the BNCC, and the political
implications of this.
(Available at: Menezes de Souza, L. M. T. Coloniality, epistemicide, and language learning in Brazil. In: Multilingual Nations, Monolingual Schools: Confronting colonial language policies across the Americas. New York: Teachers College Press, p. 64, 2024 )
According to the excerpt, one of the main criticisms of the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCNs) was that:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Renascer Soluções e Serviços
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Nova Erechim - SC
Prova:
Renascer Soluções e Serviços - 2025 - Prefeitura de Nova Erechim - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3803579
Inglês
Texto associado
Yesterday
The Beatles
Yesterday
All my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Suddenly
I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly
Why she had to go? I don't know
She wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long
For yesterday
Yesterday
Love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Why she had to go? I don't know
She wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long
For yesterday
Yesterday
Love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
In “I'm not half the man I used to be,” the expression
most effectively conveys a:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Renascer Soluções e Serviços
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Nova Erechim - SC
Prova:
Renascer Soluções e Serviços - 2025 - Prefeitura de Nova Erechim - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3803573
Inglês
Considering the semantic groups — approaching, happening/creating, preparing, and disrupting/damaging — and the nuanced meanings of the phrasal verbs
presented, which option best misinterprets the phrasal
verb in context, creating a semantic mismatch with the
intended meaning of the original sentence?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Renascer Soluções e Serviços
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Nova Erechim - SC
Prova:
Renascer Soluções e Serviços - 2025 - Prefeitura de Nova Erechim - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3803570
Inglês
Texto associado
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of Victory!
As he, defeated — dying —
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!
(c. 1859)
– Emily Dickinson –
Throughout the poem “Success is counted sweetest”,
Emily Dickinson explores a subjective experience regarding the value of success and victory. Considering
the poetic devices employed by the author, the imagery
constructed, and the dramatic perspective adopted,
which human interiorization is conveyed in the poem?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Instituto IBED
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Parnaguá - PI
Prova:
Instituto IBED - 2025 - Prefeitura de Parnaguá - PI - Professor de Inglês |
Q3801350
Inglês
Os 'Discourse Markers' (marcadores discursivos),
como 'however', 'therefore', 'furthermore', são elementos
coesivos essenciais para a construção da coerência textual em
inglês, indicando relações lógicas entre ideias e sinalizando a
progressão do argumento. A sua correta utilização por falantes
não nativos demonstra um nível avançado de proficiência, pois
exige a compreensão das nuances semânticas e pragmáticas que
operam na organização do discurso, permitindo a inferência de
relações complexas de concessão, adição, exemplificação ou
conclusão, que ultrapassam a mera ligação gramatical de
sentenças isoladas.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Instituto IDEAP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Monte Alegre de Minas - MG
Prova:
Instituto IDEAP - 2025 - Prefeitura de Monte Alegre de Minas - MG - Professor de Inglês |
Q3795587
Inglês
What is the main idea of the passage?
“In our everyday lives, much of what we do is driven by habits. From brushing our teeth in the morning to the way we tie our shoelaces or greet a friend — habits shape our routines, decisions, and even the direction of our lives. But have you ever paused to think about how powerful habits can be in shaping your personality, mindset, and success? Let’s explore what habits truly are, how they can benefit your life, and practical ways to build habits that stick.”
Source: https://www.makemebetter.net/the-powerof-habits-how-small-actions-shape-your-life/ (28/09/2025)
“In our everyday lives, much of what we do is driven by habits. From brushing our teeth in the morning to the way we tie our shoelaces or greet a friend — habits shape our routines, decisions, and even the direction of our lives. But have you ever paused to think about how powerful habits can be in shaping your personality, mindset, and success? Let’s explore what habits truly are, how they can benefit your life, and practical ways to build habits that stick.”
Source: https://www.makemebetter.net/the-powerof-habits-how-small-actions-shape-your-life/ (28/09/2025)
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