That and consolidate accounts. I "bought" movies with two different google accounts and there is no way to transfer from one to the other. You also cannot be logged in i to two differwnt accih t at the same time with an Android TV.
All this bad faith is doing is pushing people to pirate more, not less.
Happened to me with Bandcamp. Support was kind and helpful. After I gave them proof of my purchases, they just merged the collections to my current one. Excellent experience. I wish it was always like this.
You can try https://families.google.com/families which will share your purchases across accounts, however, it does not work for connecting a regular Gmail and Google Workspace account together.
As far as I know, only the family manager can share purchased content. If you have different content from two different accounts and join them in a group, only one of those accounts can share their content. Also, groups are limited to six members total only (managers + 5).
In the physical world, if I "buy" something, I can lend it, give it, or even sell it to somebody else.
Alos, the fact that the content is linked to an account rather than a biological person raises other issues about digital identity.
All this bad faith is doing is pushing people to pirate more, not less.