If you want to really own something, buy physical media. Simple as.
I just pirate. I'll stop when my rights are respected, promise.
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Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content
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Re: Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
> They wrote "previously purchased Discovery content". Should I believe you or Sony's official statement? ;) You should believe that Sony is trying to scam you. :-)
No their legal team would have wrote something like that: Your previous purchased and limited license to consume media from our partner Discovery is hereby revoked as we can written in our EULA (you have accepted that with your first setup of our excellent product THE PS5 super-slim) we love our customers and have a great day.
Re: Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Physical media (one that is left) is encrypted with remotely revokable licenses as well, so not sure what are you implying here.
It's not, WTH are you on about. My old Blu-Rays, will still play in my old Blu-Ray player 50 years from now. Those keys are burned in the DVD and in the player's chip and can't be remotely revoked because they run on physics, not magic.
Where are you going to find a working 50 year old Blu-Ray player 50 years from now?
I have continuously rediscovered that files in inaccessible formats become inaccessible after time, time and time again.
Re: Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content
#74> you will no longer be able to watch any of your previously purchased Discovery content and the content will be removed Content you purchased. Their wording. Not content you rented, not license you paid for. They are effectively stealing the content you purchased.
If it lives on their servers you never really owned it.
Then selling it was fraud, surely. I'm not a lawyer, but I've never understood how these online storefronts haven't been sued out of existence for claiming that you can "buy" something when they clearly mean something more akin to "leasing access to it until they feel like it".
Re: Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content
#75Piracy is morally justifiable if this is the alternative.
Re: Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content
#76If you want to really own something, buy physical media. Simple as.
nope. get content at a local library and burn a backup copy, in case the library burns down or something. You're doing them a favor.
Re: Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's assuming you only ever run old Blu-Rays on that player. Blu-Ray has a thing called BD+ on it, which lets content companies run arbitrary native code on your player (among other things). It also lets you update your player's key revocation list for HDCP. So either of these mechanisms could be used to render your old purchased content unplayable.
That's fun... if you connect your DVD player to the internet.
No, they can ship updates on new disks and the player will read the code when it reads the movie.
Re: Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not, WTH are you on about. My old Blu-Rays, will still play in my old Blu-Ray player 50 years from now. Those keys are burned in the DVD and in the player's chip and can't be remotely revoked because they run on physics, not magic.
Where are you going to find a working 50 year old Blu-Ray player 50 years from now? I have continuously rediscovered that files in inaccessible formats become inaccessible after time, time and time again.
Er, I own working DVD readers, CD readers, and cassette players, and I don't personally own anything that can play 8-tracks or records but I know other people who do. Why would Blu-ray be the first exception?
Re: Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content
#79This is exactly why digital content under a subscription such as PlayStation Plus or Xbox Game Pass is a total scam no matter how long you have subscribed to the service. You never owned the content in the first place. Buy the physical medium.
I don't think rentals are a scam. You know that you won't have access if you stop renting. The problem is when something is called a "purchase" but it isn't.