Purchased Films no longer available to watch on Apple TV

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I have turned my Apple TV on to watch the above film which I purchased at £13.99 and have found this has been removed from the apple store and I can no longer watch this. How is this possible if I own the film?
But I have purchased this for £13.99 and now it has gone? If I have paid for it how can the studio or apple take the film away from me? I purchase all my films through Apple TV, but if I had known this would happen I would not have bought any! Over the last few years I have invested heavily in iTunes for films on the basis that I own the films as they say purchase, but this is clearly not purchasing it's more like an expensive hire!!!
This is as bad as me buying a bluray copy and having a thief breaking into my home and stealing it.
How can this be allowed??
Also I only have an iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. I have bought into the Apple iCloud ethos, but it appeared to have let me down. Honestly I do not expect to pay for something that May or may not disappear for reasons out of my control. Someone at Apple needs to make due consideration towards this as the service has a major fault! We are in an age of cloud based services so the suggestion of backing up purchases is not acceptable especially when the Apple TV doesn't offer a hard drive option or even upgrade.
I have also just tried to watch Anuvahood of which again I purchased for £13.99. This has also been removed. How many more films will disappear? If you don't have indefinite licence from the studio how can you offer these movies as anything other than a rental?? I have spent thousands of pounds with Apple and I'm beginning to feel very unhappy with the whole service. When I buy something I do not expect it to disappear.
I wish to understand apples long term plans regarding offing purchases on Apple TV as I have bought another Apple TV recently and I do not see this as a realistic option at present.

That really does only tell me that the Apple TV is not a complete product. Something along the lines of buy films from us using your cloud based tv solution but you also have to buy a computer and an obscenely large hard drive to protect your purchases.
Again as I have previously stated the iCloud Apple TV ethos around movies is flaud. Still the movies on the Apple TV say buy(that means I own them).
Why once removed are we not informed?
I hope you don't work at apple as I have just added up my entire itunes account purchases and they equate to over £15k. Terms or no terms and back up or no back up, I purchased them on a extended rental.
How many more films may fall under this same situation? I have 415 films today, how many tomorrow?

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