{"id":3464,"date":"2018-11-03T18:31:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T10:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2018-11-03T18:31:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T10:31:05","slug":"digital-media-purchasing-still-horrible-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2018\/11\/03\/digital-media-purchasing-still-horrible-in-2018","title":{"rendered":"Digital media purchasing, still horrible in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lying in bed with iPad in tow, and not feeling like reading, I fired up Netflix thinking I could watch the new season of House of Cards. Unfortunately, in Germany, November 2 2018 means something completely different (i.e. Season 5 is the latest).<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Spacey, irregardless of what you think of him, was a pretty good actor. I read on Wikipedia that he was in another movie called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billionaire_Boys_Club_(2018_film)\">Billionaire Boys Club<\/a> and how it grossed terribly. I hopped on over to Amazon and realised I could rent it (it wasn&#8217;t on Netflix). Then I remembered I had some Google Play credit, so I tried to rent it <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/movies\/details\/Billionaire_Boys_Club?id=IDJz0MyQzGg\">there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I even then downloaded the app from the App Store. In Chrome, it kept on trying to get me to download a SetSID file. Urgh. The purchase basically would not complete. <\/p>\n<p>All in, I spent a good 15&#8211;20 minutes before I gave up trying to watch Billionaire Boys Club. And I was willing to pay $3.99-$4.99 (with tax, the SD version is $4.39, $0.40 for taxes), in the hopes of watching it in my German hotel room. 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