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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.



> That and consolidate accounts.

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.




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