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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 gbraad »

mmh0000 wrote: post #21
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.

What's funny is that Sony has done this before![0] I've had a personal boycott against Sony products due to this. "The feature was controversially removed by Sony since system firmware update 3.21, released on April 1, 2010.[2] A class action lawsuit was filed against Sony on behalf of users, but was dismissed with prejudice in 2011 by a federal judge. The judge stated: "As a legal matter, ... plaintiffs have failed…

I boycot Sony since they blocked my PSN account, which got hacked due to them! Purchases I made are not available, ... I really took a disliking before when they refused to fix my Vaio laptop, ... this was the last drop!

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by leafmeal »

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…

If you're open to physical media you can probably request it through your library, or similarly buy the dvd from ebay or something.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL »

garciansmith wrote: post #26
mmh0000 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's funny is that Sony has done this before![0] I've had a personal boycott against Sony products due to this. "The feature was controversially removed by Sony since system firmware update 3.21, released on April 1, 2010.[2] A class action lawsuit was filed against Sony on behalf of users, but was dismissed with prejudice in 2011 by a federal judge. The judge stated: "As a legal matter, ... plaintiffs have failed…

Yep. I had tons of Sony games across the first three Playstation consoles. I was a grad student with a PS3 at the time and I actually used Yellow Dog Linux on it as a computer to write papers when my laptop broke. Then the update came and I chose to ignore it, but that meant I couldn't play online games. Soon new games required a firmware update (still remember putting in the Dark Souls disc and being stunned I wasn'…

Kinda. On Steam I can still play games I bought 18 years ago.

Still walled garden, but they act way better.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by webdoodle »

A friend of mine owned the first Ipod, and diligently ripped all his cd's and cut and pasted them too his device. I asked if he had backups, and he said he had the cd's. I told him too make a copy, just in case the Apple mafia came too delete his stuff. He didn't, and then after a move he lost or scratched many of his CD's. His only backup WAS the ripped MP3's. A few years later Apple deleted all of his music claiming he hadn't purchased them. He didn't even know how to download music. Every single MP3 he had he ripped himself...

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by garciansmith »

Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #37
garciansmith wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. I had tons of Sony games across the first three Playstation consoles. I was a grad student with a PS3 at the time and I actually used Yellow Dog Linux on it as a computer to write papers when my laptop broke. Then the update came and I chose to ignore it, but that meant I couldn't play online games. Soon new games required a firmware update (still remember putting in the Dark Souls disc and being stunned I wasn'…

Kinda. On Steam I can still play games I bought 18 years ago. Still walled garden, but they act way better.

True, but Steam still controls Steam and they can change their terms whenever they want. But for now it's ok, at least. And their hardware is happily open: I've played a bunch of games I got on GOG, DRM-free, on my Steam Deck, for example.
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