VUDU TO BE ACQUIRED BY FANDANGO

[diamond204]

No, for multiple reasons. You should probably read the Terms of Service you agreed to.

But note that the terms of service must also conform under state and federal law so in other words retailers cannot place whatever they wish in their TOC. This will only become an issue if there was a substantial loss of digital ownership across the board. When you press 'BUY' there will be certain implied rights to the consumer via judges. Even if the TOC says that ownership rights can be reclaimed at any time I am sure the courts will call B.S. on that one. It would take extreme reasons for a copyright owner or major retailer to reclaim films and take away from those that purchases -even as easy as it is to do in a digital realm.

Now, if you purchased your Non-MA film from a 'flimsy' retailer that goes out of business. .... well, then your probably lost your movies.

[bestquality]

But note that the terms of service must also conform under state and federal law

Vudu has a binding arbitration clause, which the Supreme Court approved and why every company has moved towards them. There won't be any class action suits. It's referenced in the first paragraph of the TOS and how I knew that person hadn't even bothered skimming it.

[morfiend]

Guess it's time to buy some disk storage, setup a media server and start ripping blu rays

Already taken the money I would have spent the past 2 months on vudu and upgraded my NAS. Ripping my physical like a madman during this lockdown business, regardless of what FandangoNow does in a year or two - I'm ready.

Would it be possible to sue if we lost movies we purchased? Or was there a disclaimer somehere saying that we could potentially lose titles? If not, I think a class action lawsuit could be viable

No, because you didn't purchase anything. In the ToS, it's a rental. You have zero legal recourse. The only choice you have as a consumer, if you don't care for how FandangoNow treats their customers, setup your own media server or use another service instead.

[Wasteland]

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[Myrddin]

I rarely have purchased from Fandango because purchases tend to not show up in the regular video libraries online the way they do when buying from Vudu. That feature of Vudu has kept me coming back and buying content from Vudu for years. It's especially handy when you want to watch a title that will fill an ultrawide monitor, using an app that will "stretch to fill" instead of getting black-boxed all the way around the video.