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PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

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Re: PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

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Post by [deleted] »

nerdsniper wrote: post #8
thomasmarton wrote: post #6

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

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Re: PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

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Post by pinkmuffinere »

cebert wrote: post #20
jmclnx wrote: post #4

Off to small claims court people should go. Amazon tried something similar and got in trouble because people when after them. And people wonder why some people sail the high seas.

I believe you’d lose in small claims court as all of the streaming companies make it clear you’re purchasing a revokable license.

Wow, "purchasing a revokable license" is an insane concept. Purchase of something revokable in general feels like... not purchasing? If there was a definite time bound that's one thing, but imagine if I sell a revokable license and then revoke it a week later -- it seems like that would be allowed?

I don't mean to disagree with you, and I have basically no expertise in this area, just shocked by the whole thing.

Re: PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

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Post by plagiarist »

Eric_WVGG wrote: post #9
thomasmarton wrote: post #6

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

punishing customers for not using BitTorrent seems like a weird strategy but I’m not an MBA so what do I know

The amount of people who are willing to tolerate the "cable-ization" of streaming services is far larger than those who will torrent

Re: PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

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Post by darreninthenet »

cebert wrote: post #20
jmclnx wrote: post #4

Off to small claims court people should go. Amazon tried something similar and got in trouble because people when after them. And people wonder why some people sail the high seas.

I believe you’d lose in small claims court as all of the streaming companies make it clear you’re purchasing a revokable license.

Would likely win in the UK as we have an unfair terms regulation, a small claims court could easily rule it an unfair as any reasonable consumer would assume they were purchasing the movie to watch whenever they want to.

Re: PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

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Post by skywhopper »

LoganDark wrote: post #13
dc3k wrote: post #2

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

Renting what? The non-exclusive, revocable license? Because that's what purchase or buy means.

No, that’s not what “purchase” or “buy” means.

Re: PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

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Post by skywhopper »

cebert wrote: post #20
jmclnx wrote: post #4

Off to small claims court people should go. Amazon tried something similar and got in trouble because people when after them. And people wonder why some people sail the high seas.

I believe you’d lose in small claims court as all of the streaming companies make it clear you’re purchasing a revokable license.

No, that is not what the plain meaning of “purchase” is.

Re: PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

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." ?

Re: PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

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Post by rachel-ftw »

This is making me mad enough that I’m going to spend my weekend figuring out a media server and pirating movies.

If buying isn’t owning, pirating isn’t stealing. Fuck those guys.

It’s been 20 years since I’ve pirated shit, but here we are again…

Re: PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

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Post by wetpaws »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #28

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." ?

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