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Sony is deleting 551 movies and TV shows you bought on PlayStation, because you don't really own your digital purchases— John Wick, Paddington, and Terminator 2 are among the titles–no refunds offered (www.playstation.com)

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[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 24 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Same here, ever since this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

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[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

lol yeah I was gonna say I think it was the time they put a fucking virus on my computer

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[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago

.. and so do I.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Jesus fucking Christ, what a read. It really was the wild west days back then, huh? Sony was out there just putting straight up malware on audio CDs.

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[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 3 points 4 months ago

And thought nobody would catch them. And thought they could BS their way out of it when they were caught.

Yep.

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