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Except after you rent/buy the video, you can only watch it as long as you pay for the subscription service you bought it from.
That's not what buying means or at least not the "buying" I am talking about. I mean I give some amount of money and I receive a download of the purchased material, free of DRM. There is no subscription involved. Like Steam (with no DRM) or GoG, but for movies and shows instead of games.
Steam provides licenses, you don't own the software. If your account is banned, you lose it all. Death? You guessed it, lost access (officially).
That's why I said without DRM. Some games on steam don't have DRM, as far as I understand. Otherwise GoG.
Music went through this many years ago.
iTunes would have drm'd music files. Amazon too, I think.
Then at some point it all became sane and I could buy an MP3 and download it.
If it is anything like Steam, then you keep this media available to redownload as long as you wan. Same as Steam games that got delisted are still downloadable and playable.
Most streaming services are nothing like Steam. "Your" stuff can disappear with no notice and no ability to watch it even if you have it "downloaded" due to layers of DRM.