Sony has written to customers to advise that hundreds of "previously purchased" digital movies previously available via its online store will "be removed".
    • TWeaK@lemmy.todayEnglish
      9·
      7 days ago

      Piracy never was stealing.

      Stealing is taking with intent to deprive, making a copy does not deprive.

      • ltxrtquq@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        6 days ago

        Stealing is taking with intent to deprive

        I don’t think that intent has anything to do with it.

  • TachyonTele@piefed.socialEnglish
    16·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • the16bitgamer@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Out of curiosity are you sure you can’t access them on YouTube? I found many of my Google Movie purchases there even though I was never warned or told.

      With that said still scummy and 100% not buying from Google again.

  • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    7 days ago

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

      • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        7 days 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

  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    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.

    • kalpol@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      The thrift store and library media experience is pretty unparalleled.

      • j5y7@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        And it gives you access to out of print, unstreamable because of copyrights and obscure titles.