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Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by noahbp »

eska wrote: post #6

It should be illegal to have others purchase what you as a company only licensed and therefore aren’t legally allowed to sell.

Plenty of people purchase digital movie rentals from Apple, Youtube, etcetera because they know they will watch it once, and the lower price in exchange for a temporary license is acceptable to them. I don't think banning this is pro-consumer.

It should, however, be illegal to tell your customers that they are purchasing/buying media without explicit "Rent" language (which implies a non-expiring license) when you do not yourself have the right to grant non-expiring licenses.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by zamadatix »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #3

They should at least make an effort to let you sync them into MoviesAnywhere which is supposed to solve the "I have this on iTunes, but not Android TV" problem by unlocking it across platforms if you sync your accounts. They should really let you permanently keep movies on defunct platforms as part of your standard MoviesAnywhere movie collection.

Movies Anywhere works by aggregating the active digital access licenses you have participating partner services. The problem here is Sony won't be able to give any active digital access licenses for these movies to users after September 1st, let alone one which allows them to transfer that through Movies Anywhere.

It's typical "you own nothing" logic to the point the companies selling you that also don't even own it.

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Post by [deleted] »

piltdownman wrote: post #10
eska wrote: post #6

It should be illegal to have others purchase what you as a company only licensed and therefore aren’t legally allowed to sell.

They make it up as they go along. Their 2005 Audio-CD EULA includes provisions purporting to require the immediate deletion of all copies if a user files for personal bankruptcy https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2005/12/summary-claims-against...

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Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by 404mm »

eska wrote: post #6

It should be illegal to have others purchase what you as a company only licensed and therefore aren’t legally allowed to sell.

I bet there’s a class action coming.

And Sony made it easy for them too by using this verbiage: “previously purchased content”

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by NoSalt »

Ever since Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc. started offering "free" online storage for photos, ever since streaming started to be popular, I have ALWAYS extolled the virtues of µSD card slots in phones and owning your own media (i.e., purchasing CDs and DVDs). Many people would give me a hard time about this, calling me a Luddite, but I will never lose access to my photos, music, or movies ... unless it is the end of the world as we know it, which I happily have on R.E.M.'s Eponymous album.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by etempleton »

noahbp wrote: post #11
eska wrote: post #6

It should be illegal to have others purchase what you as a company only licensed and therefore aren’t legally allowed to sell.

Plenty of people purchase digital movie rentals from Apple, Youtube, etcetera because they know they will watch it once, and the lower price in exchange for a temporary license is acceptable to them. I don't think banning this is pro-consumer. It should, however, be illegal to tell your customers that they are purchasing/buying media without explicit "Rent" language (which implies a non-expiring license) when you do…

They often have two tiers, a rental tier and a purchase tier. If you purchase the assumption is it will be available forever.

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Post by azalemeth »

piltdownman wrote: post #8

Sony literally distributed a rootkit in the guise of DRM for Audio CDs back when piracy meant CD-R distribution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk... Anyone remotely surprised at their history of utter contempt for the end-user need only remind themselves of SVP Steve Heckler's remarks to conference attendee's in 2000 "The industry will take whatever steps it needs to protect itself and pro…

I haven't bought a single Sony product since then. I used to have a Sony walkman, clock radio, buy classical Sony CDs (or their sub brands), etc, nearly got an original PlayStation.

I wrote a letter to them after the rootkit fiasco saying they've lost a consumer for life. Didn't get a real response. Wrote to them last anti DRM day. Didn't get a response.

Really, this is the only power one has in capitalism -- don't buy their products.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by juliend2 »

shadowtree wrote: post #9

It is legitimately impossible to purchase certain movies, especially classic, in any format due to regional blocks. Simple example: "The Things of Life", a classic French movie from 1970. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Things_of_Life No way to get it in the US. No physical media, no streaming. It is on Apple TV ... in France. You can torrent it. Utterly brokem model. Music is the same btw, Apple Music and Spotify…

And for some non-geoblocked music, if you want to actually purchase the song as MP3, there's no way unless you have a Mac or Windows PC to install iTunes (too bad for Linux users).

https://uk.7digital.com/ has a lot of songs available in MP3 format, but not as many as on iTunes.

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