Have you not heard of Google's legendary ability of ditching products? If you were able to buy those movies, how do you think that would go when it closes down?
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I've spent a huge amount of money on YouTube movies/TV shows. You don't even have to wait till it closes down!
I moved countries and they took away my TV shows. Then I rebought some and they took those away too claiming it was from the other country. Turns out after I swapped countries, I decided to buy two seasons of Rick and Morty while on vacation (I like watching things on planes). Strange because I didn't pay a different currency price or nothing. Customer support is so bad. Also, I bought mostly 4K and can't watch it in 4K because of some browser limitations.
Anyways, my Plex server serves me just fine now.
I hear you. 😁
Neighbour has a Plex server and I'm building my own storage.
All Google TV rentals/purchases are available concurrently on YouTube. I am sure they will remain there if and when it is shut down and they move their store to YouTube. They moved away from Play Music to YouTube Music, I figure they will want to leverage YouTube's name and branding to denote their media services and give their video store more recognition and respect. I expect there will be a new "service" separate from the main YouTube system just like their other YouTube apps...
YouTube Music
YouTube TV
YouTube ________ ?