Sony has written to customers to advise that hundreds of "previously purchased" digital movies previously available via its online store will "be removed".

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[–] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yep, since the beginning. Made digital purchases only if I could have a backup of the file.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    Lol. Digital 'purchases'

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's pretty much the definition of "If buying is not owning, pirating is not stealing." I generally don't pirate stuff, but man if that thing happened to me I would probably just do it out of spite. This isn't Netflix where you are paying per month for access to the content. You bought the damn thing. Imagine the same thing happening to a game you bought on Steam. People would be up in arms.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    And this is why I have zero qualms about pirating shit.

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    [–] 26 points 4 months ago

    Thank fuck for piracy.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Google pulled all my movies that i stupidly purchased over the years. That was around five years ago. I don't have any qalms of sailing the seas for movies anymore.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    If buying is not owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I wonder if there's a 500+ item torrent right now somewhere called, "All the Movies Sony Pulled this Week."

    This is going to be a huge wakeup call to a lot of people. These are some BIG movies that a lot of people are going to have to REWATCH regularly.

    Personally, I'm enjoying my quasi-TV Land-style media life watching what I can pick up at thrift stores for 50 cents-$2.

    I decided that my internet bill was really only there for streaming; once I got rid of streaming, I realized I could get by quite fine with an unlimited cellular connection, limited hotspot, and transfer files from my phone to my PC if necessary.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    It's funny.. because Linux sucks guy thinks the Sony PlayStation is the greatest console.. just wait until they f their player base

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    they already do and the fanboys defend them

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Yes Sir.

    I want the movie media I buy to randomly not work due to new copy protection not compatible with my player, I want my CD's to have spyware, and it's excellent for consumers to buy hardware which is locked down 100% to a single vendors store.

    Nevermind that the PS5 probably uses linux internally, what I really need is something thats a computer, but totally locked

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