Scharon Harding, writing at Ars Technica:
One could be forgiven for assuming they had greater control over DVR recordings from YouTube TV. The earliest DVR machines stored can’t-miss episodes and historical sporting events locally, giving users power over when they could watch or delete what they had recorded. As a result, people might presume that today’s DVR recordings work similarly. But nowadays, DVR files are stored in the cloud, giving companies the ability to rip them away at any time. In this case, people are losing access to files that they may have recorded long before Disney and Google’s disagreement went public.
It really sucks that people who have "recorded" shows on their "DVR" have lost access to those "recordings". It's just another reminder that these services just aren't as good as ones that actually put a recording on a device you own, like a TiVo.
YouTube TV’s Disney blackout reminds users that they don’t own what they stream
“This is a hard lesson for us all.”...