Sadly the days of doing what you want with the thing you payed money for are gone. In which case, you are paying money just to make yourself feel less guilty about pirating/breaking that agreement.

Now, if you are gonna rip/bypass that restriction from a digital storefront, you are still technically pirating because you are breaking that terms of service agreement. You agree to these restrictions when accept the storefronts terms of service. But like I said, this is the legal, technical restrictions put on you. You are not buying the right to watch the media any way you want. If theres a cloud with down-arrow symbol on that TV show season, click it. At the bottom right corner of the screen, there is a checkbox for Download HD When Available. You’ll never get the higher quality than what you’ve already purchased. Go to the iTunes Store Purchased screen Download your past purchases - Apple Support Set it to show TV Shows and All. When you are buying these things from the digital storefront, you are buying a license to stream it/watch it strictly through the media players associated with that storefront (ie iTunes, googleplay). With iTunes there’s usually an option between SD and HD but you have to make sure you’re on the correct option before hand. Unfortunately, speaking from a technical legal standpoint, you are not allowed to download the movies/tv you buy unless the storefront you are buying from has that option freely available. is the safest avenue to acquire a digital copy that isn’t bound to a storefront or will get you in trouble with the law/sued. Ripping dvds/Blu-ray’s are the only truly legal way to do this. This is not a “you should/shouldn’t pirate” comment.

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