For that model to work, movies have to be sold on re-usable physical media that the library can loan out to a single person/family at a time.
Ah, but that is not so.
They could use the same technology they use for audio books. I download audio books from the library and they come with DRM that cause them to cease working after 7 (or optionally 14) days. During that 7 0r 14 day period, the audio book is not available for download to anybody else.
I imagine with movies the lending period would be less. But it should be a workable process, provided that the library could make available the bandwidth required to for the downloads.
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