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  • If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't theft.
    by nyc_data_geek1
  • I feel these license agreements have to be set up in such a way people that already bought their movies get to keep them, like okay Sony lost the licences and they shouldn't sell it to new customers but existing customers should get to keep their movies. Since companies don't care the government needs to force their hand and put it into law
    by kelvinjps10
  • How is it that Steam manages to avoid yanking games from people's libraries even after the games are delisted for licensing issues, etc? I have multiple games that you can't "buy" anymore, but Steam doesn't stop me from reinstalling them as often as I like.

    Are they negotiating that as part of the deal with their vendors? Or is it as simple as "We're not dicks." ?

    by AdmiralAsshat
  • Piracy is justified especially when it comes to movies!

    If I am buying a DVD, I own that copy regardless of the studio and the distributor being in legal trouble or not. If I "buy" or "purchase" something online, I expect the same thing.

    I'm not always a fan of the EU over-regulating some things but I feel like they should start fining companies who want to re-define the meaning of the word purchase

    by thomasmarton
  • it should not be legal for the product page to say “purchase” or “buy” when in reality you’re only renting it with a to be determined end date
    by dc3k
  • They should absolutely be forced to provide either a refund or a downloadable copy, this is absurd. It sounds like they didn't actually have the license necessary to be able to sell these movies in any reasonable way.
    by patmcc
  • > Reminding Us Nothing Digital Is Ever Truly Ours

    Wrong, Kotaku. Lots of digital things are ours. Digital files on our personally owned HDDs and SSDs. Digital movies on DVD and Blu-Ray discs on our shelves. Digital ISO files on hard drives that are ripped from the aforementioned digital physical DVDs.

    What you meant to say is, streaming content is not ours - and that is true by definition, because the data is streamed from somewhere else. Someone else can always delete files, take down servers, or go out of business entirely.

    The word digital contrasts with analog. Digital and physical are two independent axes - there are digital physical things, digital virtual things, analog physical things, and analog virtual things.

    by nayuki
  • Not limited to PlayStation. Apple's been doing this for years.

    I have iTunes music going back to the day the store opened. Some of it is now missing from the iTunes cloud (or Apple Music or whatever it's called this week). It would be gone forever had I not made a local backup.

    At least Sony's contacting customers. I was looking for songs I knew I had and couldn't find them until I searched a local backup.

    When I complained, I got a boilerplate "tough titties, sometimes we lose licensing" response.

    Always keep hard copies people.

    This foolishness of trusting someone else to host your stuff for you? Well now you know.

    by naturalmovement

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