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13 hoursHow can a company even legally give you a “license to view something” like that without advertising it as "until we randomly decide to take it down. It shouldn’t be legal. They should have to say what the contract is for all the things they sell licenses for.
- Janx@piefed.socialEnglish15 hours
I don’t even sail the high seas these days, but objectively it’s the morally right thing to do. They’re straight-up stealing from people and giving them nothing in return. So please pirate anything and everything Sony!
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish20 hours
Thanks to Sony for showing us why digital piracy is necessary and justified.
- Malfeasant@lemmy.worldEnglish13 hours
Didn’t they do this once before several years ago? Or maybe that was Amazon. In any case, if you don’t own what you pay for, then taking it without paying can’t be wrong.
No it still was Sony. At the time they said "sorry won’t happen again 😉 " and we all believed them
I truly feel sorry for everyone affected but it’s also important to draw firm conclusions from this happening to oneself.
I’ve had this happen to me once, bought myself an Album on Amazon Music, back then the Amazon Music App was rather unusable so I just downloaded the MP3, years later I wanted to redownload some of the “worse” songs from this album I had deleted/lost over the years. Gone, the entire thing gone. Still there in my purchase history, unavailable anywhere else. Best part: the album itself was still on Amazon so I could have bought it again.
I drew my conclusion: Never buy with DRM. Always download the files, even if I don’t need them.
- 19 hours
"From September 1, 2026, due to our content licensing agreements, you will no longer be able to access your previously purchased content from Studio Canal, and it will be removed from your video library.
Fuck
Thankyou,PlayStation Store"
Fixed it for you.
Yeah, this is why I don’t buy digital movies.
No DRM Free download option.
FWIW, I buy digital music all the time, because I can download it, back it up, etc.
And just to be sure make a digital copy of those so you have at least 2 versions available should either version degrade.
In some jurisdiction bypassing the DRM for strictly personal use is even legal, in those where it’s not: if you don’t share your private copy can anyone even prove you bypassed it?
- acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish24 hours
or don’t bother with making copies and just pirate a copy later if there’s an issue with the disc.
Runs you the risk of getting caught plus is more work if you need a specific version rather than just a version.
- 22 hours
I am not an optical disc expert, but I recall with CDs/DVDs, factory pressed are more resilient whereas burned discs can rot more easily. I believe this still holds true with BR. Furthermore, there are carbon-based BR discs that profess to not exhibit data rot for 1000 years.
- 20 hours
That and the quality of the disc. There used to be a manufacturer grade rating for the CD/DVDs. Don’t know if BR got rated as well.
- Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish20 hours
All physical objects degrade with time. Factory-pressed commercial discs like movies have an expected lifespan of 10-20 years assuming they’re stored properly at all times.
- Malfeasant@lemmy.worldEnglish13 hours
I just want to say I have 30 year old DVDs that still read just fine, and I’ve had other DVDs that stopped reading after 10 years with no visible damage. Shits a crapshoot.
Sony pulled Linux from the PS3.
They’ve also pulled similar stuff on phones and other gadgets.
They lost my trust and I won’t buy anything from them again.
- 23 hours
Same here, ever since this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
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.
- 12 hours
And thought nobody would catch them. And thought they could BS their way out of it when they were caught.
Yep.
- yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish22 hours
lol yeah I was gonna say I think it was the time they put a fucking virus on my computer
Sony pulled Linux from the PS3.
which was there so Sony could sell their console with a lower tax rate in some countries because it qualified as a “Personal Computer” due to Linux being available, whereas without they would have needed to sell it as “Entertainment Media”
- MrNesser@lemmy.worldEnglish21 hours
If i buy digitial i should reserve the right to download and retain that item in a digital format
- anon_8675309@lemmy.worldEnglish21 hours
Rrrr matey. Thats why all my digital purchases are accompanied by me grabbing a copy I can keep when the Enshitification hits the fan.
