The Latest Lawsuit Against Amazon Is A Battle Cry For A Better Film Future

There may not be more fraud in home entertainment at the present time from the option to “buy” on digital films offered by signs such as Amazon Prime Video, Google Play and Orchender Apple TV+. When you buy well, this is permanent unless you decide to sell it. This is the stable law, and in fact, it should go without saying. But the emergence of digital property has cast a key to business, and now consumers, who have discovered that buying their media can be linked from their account at any time, fighting in the courts.

On August 22, 2025, Lisa Ringold filed a possible collective lawsuit in the Federal Court against Amazon (via The Hollywood Reporter), claiming that the company was lost when it bought a series of fans in Nickelodeon “Bella and the Bulldogs- Volume 4.” This is the second lawsuit filed against the owned Jeff Bezos company. In 2020, Amanda Kudel, in California, filed a lawsuit against Amazon for unfair competition and wrong ads, claiming that the company “secretly retains the right” to end the access of users to the media they bought instead of renting them. The case was eventually rejected, but this time, Amazon may not be very fortunate.

The recently year -old California Law states that any submitted language indicates that the user has bought or bought a digital product. The customer must directly inform that the broadcast service retains the right to remove the aforementioned media at any time. Depending on how the law is legalized legally, the printing defense can decrease reading in the fire. If so, this may affect the theatrical exhibitions industry in a very positive way.

Hollywood has always justified the tightening of the theatrical exhibition by offering new versions for rent at distinctive prices, just a few weeks from a large movie. It also encouraged broadcasting services to encourage its users to “buy” movies and TV programs, which is the idea that these media will always be present for subscribers to display.

I used to do this sometimes when a specific movie was not available for broadcast/rent on other services or if you cross a set of films in theaters. (According to my Amazon purchase date, I recorded $ 25 for “X-Men: Days of Future Past” in 2014. But because I am a fan of science fiction and question the major business while living in a country where the laws are bent, and at the present time, I never, I never thought a permanent purchase. In the end, I went back to buying material media, and I am pleased to do so.

Unfortunately, many films and series do not receive physical media treatment. So, if, like Mrs. Ringold, she coincides with being a fan of Nickelodeon series in mid -2010 “Bella and The Bulldogs”, she jumped at the opportunity to buy one of his four seasons on Prime Video for $ 20.79. Certainly, you were connected when the purchase disappeared from your flowing library.

Legally, I have no idea how to do so, but if more courts apply that the “purchase” option in California in broadcasting services may disappear forever – which will be excellent news for theatrical exhibitors and physical media producers. Once again, I am skeptical that Amazon will not use her huge legal and political influence to obtain this lawsuit from the courts as I did with the 2020 case, but at the present time I chose to have prevailed in Mrs. Ringold. Because when we try to re -connect the meaning of “purchase”, we go to treacherous water that is not friendly to consumers.