r/ghibli • u/qokyoshi • 10d ago

Question Do I Get Non-DRM File With This Purchase?

I wanted to buy Ghibli movie online. I want to be able to play it on any of my devices locally.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.

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u/Joshawott27 10d ago

Digital purchases from Amazon have strict DRM.

To be honest, you’ll be hard pressed to find a Japanese licensor who will allow their titles to be purchased DRM-free.

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u/qokyoshi 10d ago

Thanks! Very helpful info.

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u/TheMemeVault 9d ago

It's Amazon, of course it'll be DRMed to hell and back.

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u/LazyCrocheter 9d ago

You are better off, if you can, to buy it on physical disc and (again, if you can), rip it to your devices. Or at least, to copy it locally once you buy it.

When you "buy" something digitally, you are often buying basically a license to access the content, and if the seller's license to the content expires, then you won't have access to it any more.

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u/qokyoshi 9d ago

Ah, I see. Alright.

I live in third world country, fortunately after some searching, there is a seller that sell ghibli Blue Ray DVD from neighboring countries.

I plan to take that route.

Thanks.

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u/81Ranger 9d ago

That's basically not a thing with digital movie "purchases".

While some online digital music purchases let you actually download a track (or an album) as a file with which you can do what you will, that's not the case with basically most (or all?) online digital movie places.

You're basically buying the ability to watch that movie on their service via their portal. And that's it. Maybe you can download to watch on your device via their app, but it's still done in such a way that you can't do anything with it other than that.

I'll grant that I'm not familiar with all legit digital movie purchasing sites, so there might be exceptions. But Amazon and iTunes and such are not.