If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably got multiple streaming subscriptions—and you’ve also had that moment where you realise you don’t actually “own” what you paid for. In this video I talk about why that’s been winding me up (Amazon removing movies I’d bought was the final straw), and why I’ve gone back to a more homelab-friendly approach: keeping my own physical media and a data copy on my NAS so it can’t just disappear overnight. I walk through the real-world options I tested for getting streaming content into a usable file format, and what’s hype vs what actually works. My old fallback was Audials, which can record anything on-screen, but it’s a 1:1 capture—so an 18-hour series takes 18 hours to grab. I also mention 4K Video Downloader+ as a tool I’ve used for years for backing up my own YouTube content, but it won’t handle Netflix/Prime. From there I compare tools like StreamFab (good but painfully expensive), NoteBurner (worked well but licensing didn’t suit my setup), and the one I ended up liking as the best all-rounder: BBFly, because it pulled streams down quickly and supported a bunch of UK services too. Finally, I show how I serve everything back out with Jellyfin for that “Netflix experience”, but with my own library on my own network.