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Q3812985
Biologia
Durante uma expedição no semiárido nordestino,
pesquisadores observaram várias adaptações morfológicas em
plantas nativas que favorecem sua sobrevivência nesse
ambiente. Entre essas adaptações estavam: raízes tuberosas
com tecido parenquimático especializado, caules suculentos
revestidos por cutícula e colênquima, folhas transformadas em
espinhos com redução da lâmina foliar e flores dispostas em
inflorescências densas. Considerando a função adaptativa dessas
estruturas, analise as proposições a seguir:
I. Raízes tuberosas apresentam tecido parenquimático especializado com função principal de suporte mecânico à planta, dificultando o armazenamento de reservas energéticas.
II. Caules suculentos apresentam parênquima aquífero e cutícula impermeabilizante, ambos essenciais para minimizar a perda hídrica e promover armazenamento interno de água.
III. A transformação das folhas em espinhos amplia a área foliar disponível para fotossíntese em condições de baixa luminosidade típicas do semiárido.
IV. Inflorescências densas favorecem a atração dos polinizadores, que podem visitar várias flores em menos tempo, aumentando a eficiência do transporte de pólen.
É correto o que se afirma somente em
I. Raízes tuberosas apresentam tecido parenquimático especializado com função principal de suporte mecânico à planta, dificultando o armazenamento de reservas energéticas.
II. Caules suculentos apresentam parênquima aquífero e cutícula impermeabilizante, ambos essenciais para minimizar a perda hídrica e promover armazenamento interno de água.
III. A transformação das folhas em espinhos amplia a área foliar disponível para fotossíntese em condições de baixa luminosidade típicas do semiárido.
IV. Inflorescências densas favorecem a atração dos polinizadores, que podem visitar várias flores em menos tempo, aumentando a eficiência do transporte de pólen.
É correto o que se afirma somente em
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Q3812984
Biologia
A empresária Perinalva Dias Paiva passou 28 dias em coma
em Vitória da Conquista, no interior da Bahia. Os médicos
constataram que rins e fígado haviam parado de funcionar,
restando apenas o coração em atividade. Ela chegou a desfalecer
em casa, ainda antes da chegada do Samu. Os sintomas
começaram após sessões de soroterapia, um “soro da
imunidade” rico em vitaminas, aplicado em uma clínica médica.
Fonte: G1 - Fantástico - https://encurtador.com.br/lkoTb
No que diz respeito às vitaminas, é correto afirmar
Fonte: G1 - Fantástico - https://encurtador.com.br/lkoTb
No que diz respeito às vitaminas, é correto afirmar
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Q3812983
Biologia
Estudos recentes destacam a aplicação de fungos
micorrízicos e filamentosos na micorremediação, um processo
biotecnológico que utiliza esses organismos para a imobilização
e remoção de metais pesados em solos contaminados. Nesse
contexto, com base nas características do Reino Fungi, assinale a
afirmação verdadeira.
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Q3812982
Biologia
Considere as cadeias alimentares representadas a seguir:
• cacto → gafanhoto → lagarto → jararaca → onça-pintada
• gramínea → preá → raposa
• ipê → besouro → galo-de-campina → gavião
Com base na organização dos níveis tróficos nessas cadeias, é correto afirmar que
• cacto → gafanhoto → lagarto → jararaca → onça-pintada
• gramínea → preá → raposa
• ipê → besouro → galo-de-campina → gavião
Com base na organização dos níveis tróficos nessas cadeias, é correto afirmar que
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Q3812981
Biologia
Durante uma campanha de saúde, uma médica explicava à
população sobre diferentes categorias de doenças, ressaltando
que algumas doenças são contraídas ao longo da vida, outras
estão presentes desde o nascimento como as genéticas e as
congênitas. Com base nesse contexto, analise as afirmações a
seguir e assinale-as com V ou F conforme sejam verdadeiras ou
falsas.
( ) Doenças adquiridas, como infecções virais ou alterações causadas por hábitos de vida, ocorrem devido a influências ambientais e não estão presentes no genoma do indivíduo.
( ) Condições congênitas resultam de mutações genéticas herdadas dos pais, que se manifestam no nascimento.
( ) A expressão fenotípica de doenças genéticas pode sofrer influência de fatores ambientais, mesmo em casos de alterações hereditárias.
( ) As doenças congênitas são causadas por alterações no material genético do feto durante o desenvolvimento.
Está correta, de cima para baixo, a seguinte sequência:
( ) Doenças adquiridas, como infecções virais ou alterações causadas por hábitos de vida, ocorrem devido a influências ambientais e não estão presentes no genoma do indivíduo.
( ) Condições congênitas resultam de mutações genéticas herdadas dos pais, que se manifestam no nascimento.
( ) A expressão fenotípica de doenças genéticas pode sofrer influência de fatores ambientais, mesmo em casos de alterações hereditárias.
( ) As doenças congênitas são causadas por alterações no material genético do feto durante o desenvolvimento.
Está correta, de cima para baixo, a seguinte sequência:
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Q3812980
Biologia
Nos animais, os tecidos podem ser classificados em
epitelial, conjuntivo, muscular e nervoso. Já nos vegetais,
destacam-se tecidos meristemáticos e tecidos permanentes
(fundamental, de proteção e vascular). Tomando por base a
histologia animal e a vegetal, assinale a afirmação verdadeira.
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Q3812979
Biologia
Em uma floresta tropical úmida, foi constatado que a
biomassa da serapilheira (folhas, galhos e frutos em
decomposição) é rapidamente degradada por microrganismos,
liberando, em intervalos curtos, nutrientes que são prontamente
absorvidos pelas plantas. Contudo, apesar da alta taxa de
decomposição, o solo apresenta baixos níveis de nutrientes
disponíveis e a produtividade vegetal é sustentada, quase que
exclusivamente, pela ciclagem interna de nutrientes na biomassa
viva. Considerando esse cenário, assinale a opção que apresenta
a correta explicação para essa dinâmica ecológica.
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Q3812978
Biologia
Em ervilhas, duas características são determinadas por genes independentes com dominância completa:
• o gene A controla a cor da semente: A (amarela, dominante) e a (verde, recessivo).
• o gene R controla a textura da semente: R (lisa, dominante)e r (rugosa, recessivo).
Um cruzamento é feito entre uma planta heterozigota para ambas as características e uma planta que é verde e lisa homozigota. Assim, é correto afirmar que as proporções fenotípicas esperadas na descendência são as seguintes:
• o gene A controla a cor da semente: A (amarela, dominante) e a (verde, recessivo).
• o gene R controla a textura da semente: R (lisa, dominante)e r (rugosa, recessivo).
Um cruzamento é feito entre uma planta heterozigota para ambas as características e uma planta que é verde e lisa homozigota. Assim, é correto afirmar que as proporções fenotípicas esperadas na descendência são as seguintes:
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Q3812977
Biologia
Considere que uma população de insetos fitófagos que vive
na Caatinga apresenta variação na coloração corporal, indo do
verde-claro ao marrom-escuro. Durante longos períodos de seca,
a vegetação perde folhas e a coloração do ambiente torna-se
mais parda. Ao longo de várias gerações, os insetos fitófagos de
coloração mais escura se tornaram mais frequentes.
Paralelamente, ocorreu redução da variabilidade em alguns loci,
especialmente em populações pequenas e isoladas desses
insetos. Em outro conjunto de populações dos insetos fitófagos,
verificou-se a entrada de novos alelos associados à coloração
intermediária, trazidos por indivíduos provenientes de áreas
vizinhas.
Com base nos mecanismos evolutivos, é correto afirmar que a
Com base nos mecanismos evolutivos, é correto afirmar que a
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Q3812976
Biologia
As plantas, por serem organismos fotossintetizantes, são
essenciais para o funcionamento dos ecossistemas, atuando
como produtoras nas cadeias e teias alimentares. Considerando esse contexto e os processos envolvidos na fisiologia vegetal,
assinale a afirmação verdadeira.
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Q3812975
Biologia
Em uma pesquisa sobre os helmintos parasitas do lagarto
Colobosauroides cearensis, realizada em área de Caatinga, foi
identificado que lagartos de maior tamanho corporal
apresentaram maior riqueza e abundância parasitária, enquanto
não houve diferença significativa entre os sexos.
Fonte: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-21100
Considerando os dados apresentados e os aspectos biológicos relacionados, assinale as seguintes afirmações com V ou F conforme sejam verdadeiras ou falsas.
( ) As diferenças sexuais afetam a infecção parasitária, pois machos e fêmeas possuem características hormonais, fisiológicas e comportamentais distintas, resultando em variações na quantidade de helmintos.
( ) O aumento no tamanho corporal dos lagartos favorece o estabelecimento e a manutenção dos helmintos, porque proporciona maior espaço para colonização e mais recursos para desenvolvimento dos parasitas.
( ) A variação na resistência imunológica entre lagartos pode influenciar a riqueza e a abundância de helmintos, que também sofrem variação com o tamanho corporal do lagarto.
( ) A competição interespecífica entre lagartos adultos e jovens de Colobosauroides cearensis, explica a maior infestação dos adultos, pois indivíduos maiores são mais eficientes na exploração de recursos.
Está correta, de cima para baixo, a seguinte sequência:
Fonte: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-21100
Considerando os dados apresentados e os aspectos biológicos relacionados, assinale as seguintes afirmações com V ou F conforme sejam verdadeiras ou falsas.
( ) As diferenças sexuais afetam a infecção parasitária, pois machos e fêmeas possuem características hormonais, fisiológicas e comportamentais distintas, resultando em variações na quantidade de helmintos.
( ) O aumento no tamanho corporal dos lagartos favorece o estabelecimento e a manutenção dos helmintos, porque proporciona maior espaço para colonização e mais recursos para desenvolvimento dos parasitas.
( ) A variação na resistência imunológica entre lagartos pode influenciar a riqueza e a abundância de helmintos, que também sofrem variação com o tamanho corporal do lagarto.
( ) A competição interespecífica entre lagartos adultos e jovens de Colobosauroides cearensis, explica a maior infestação dos adultos, pois indivíduos maiores são mais eficientes na exploração de recursos.
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Q3812974
Biologia
“Por que as aves megacoloridas sumiram das cidades?”
Essa foi a pergunta norteadora de uma pesquisa que obteve,
dentre seus resultados, a constatação de que “no ambiente
urbanizado, há filtros que impedem o desenvolvimento e a
adaptação de aves mais coloridas. Isso pode ser determinado
pelas pressões ambientais”. Segundo o biólogo Nascimento, “O
ambiente urbano seleciona espécies onívoras e espécies grandes,
só que as espécies mais coloridas tendem a ser pequenas e com
dieta especialista”.
(https://jornal.usp.br/ciencias/por-que-as-aves-megacoloridas-sumiramdas-cidades/)
Sobre as aves megacoloridas, é correto afirmar que
(https://jornal.usp.br/ciencias/por-que-as-aves-megacoloridas-sumiramdas-cidades/)
Sobre as aves megacoloridas, é correto afirmar que
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Q3811478
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Texto associado
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/
Because the author is a fan of physical media in the age of
streamings, he admits being considered
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Texto associado
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 makes it clear that there was an attempt to elicit
a comment from Amazon, which
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Inglês
Texto associado
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/
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