Movies Anywhere

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{{InfoboxCompany
| Name = Movies Anywhere
| Type = Private
| Founded = 2014
| Industry = Entertainment
| Official Website = https://moviesanywhere.com/
| Logo = Movies Anywhere.png
}}
'''Movies Anywhere''' (previously known as '''Disney Movies Anywhere'''<ref name="d23">[https://d23.com/a-to-z/disney-movies-anywhere/ "Disney Movies Anywhere"] - d23.com - accessed 2025-02-03</ref>) is a private movie streaming platform founded in 2014 by [[Disney]]. Prior to 2018<ref>[https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/disney-movies-anywhere-shutdown-1202712998/ "Disney Movies Anywhere Shutting Down Today, but Your Movies Won’t Be Lost Forever"] - variety.com - accessed 2025-02-03</ref>, the service allowed users to watch digital copies of their Disney, Pixar, or Marvel DVDs.<ref name="d23" /> Currently the service allows users to connect their streaming accounts to watch purchased movies on one application, offering a consolidated librery that aggregates movie purchases from various online retailers. Users have mentioned Movies Anywhere offers a higher bitrate for streaming compared to other vendors.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/MoviesAnywhere/comments/1hma74e/whats_the_real_point_of_movies_anywhere/ "What’s the real point of Movies Anywhere?"] - reddit.com - accessed 2025-02-03</ref>

==Incidents==
===Automatic opt-in to ToS change===
Movies Anywhere notified users<sup>[''when?'']</sup> of an opt-out change in their [[Terms of Service]] (TOS). As per the email, the user is already opted into a new updated agreement and will be under those conditions effective as of June 12, 2024.
[[File:MoviesAnywhere Updated TOS 2024.png|thumb|Emailed TOS from MoviesAnywhere]]

===Impact on consumers===
Unless the account owner manually intervenes, the updated TOS<ref> {{cite web|author= |date= January 17, 2025 |title=Movies anywhere terms of use |url=https://moviesanywhere.com/terms-of-use#binding-arbitration|website=Moviesanywhere|access-date=February 13, 2025}} </ref> will apply and the users will be bound by an arbitration agreement. In addition Movies Anywhere stipulates that "You may not and agree not to redeem an unauthorized, expired, invalid, or used digital code...", thereby allowing the company to remove content which it has deemed to meet that criteria{{citation needed}}. It is worth noting that in 2017 [[Disney]] filled a copyright claim against [[Redbox]] for their service that offered digital codes of their films for purchase. <ref>{{cite web|author= |date= December 1, 2017 |title= Disney Sues to Block Redbox’s Digital Movie Sales |url=https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/disney-sues-redbox-digital-movie-downloads-1202627882/ |website=Variety|access-date=February 13, 2025}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Disney]]

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