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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 sandcat_ »

mikestew wrote: post #96
tartoran wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would anyone call you a luddite for advocating for MicroSDs? Of course the reason SD were pushed away (at least for Apple) was to offer cloud backup as the only option with no alternatives.

Of course the reason SD were pushed away (at least for Apple) was to offer cloud backup as the only option with no alternatives. Except that no part of what you claim is true: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/back-up-iphone-iph3ec...

Does anyone actually do this? I’m looking to reduce my reliance on iCloud but I’ve kept my backups there so far as it always seemed onerous to have to plug in and trigger the backup manually. And easy to forget, too.

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Post by wing-_-nuts »

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.

Till Gabe dies and valve is bought out by private equity

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Post by RajT88 »

I am fine with "renting" a streaming movie, as an analogue to analog - going to Blockbuster and renting a movie.

But I not for a single second trusted "buying" digital goods, and I was quickly proved right. The first digital purchases getting yanked story must have been close to 20 years ago at this point.

I still buy CD's and books and game discs when the digital DRM-free equivalent cannot be had.

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Post by dtech »

charcircuit wrote: post #87
AndroTux wrote: post #69

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Neither does Sony (anymore), apparently. They still sold them.

Sony sold them while they still had the license with a clause that they could remove them at any time.

That's not selling, that's renting

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Post by wing-_-nuts »

xtracto wrote: post #66
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.

If buying is not owning, piracy is not theft.

A buddy of mine is pretty insistent on physical media, wherever possible, and honestly, at this point, he's been proven right again and again.

Sad that most executable code (games, software, etc) these days is digital only and requires drm calls to a license server to install. I will not pirate executable code.

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Post by matheusmoreira »

nekusar wrote: post #105
matheusmoreira wrote: post #89

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Yeah. Copyright monopolists equate copyright infringement to literal high seas piracy because it's the only way they can make any impact. Nobody would give a fuck otherwise.

And the OTHER copyright monopolists (Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, X) proved the rules don't apply to them with copyright. And then Anthropic publically bellyaches that "WAHHHH CHINESE ARE STEALING OUR STOLEN DATA WAH". Lemee get that worlds tiniest violin for that sonata! These days if you're following the rules, you're a rube and a stooge. And you will be taken advantage of again and again and again.

Yeah. It's so disgusting.

One would think dozens of SWAT officers would rappel down helicopters and storm the mansions of these big tech CEOs. Unpayable trillion dollar fines, actual prison time. Instead the AI companies reached some absurd settlements with publishers that made a mockery out of all the previous copyright enforcement victims.

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Post by wongarsu »

Shalomboy wrote: post #114
Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Valve is in a funny position now. They lived long enough to see every one of Sony and XBOX's moats dry up by being pro-consumer where possible, but with Steam as the leader of a fungible game distribution market it may no longer make good business sense to continue to act so benevolently. We've reached a sort of gaming singularity where nearly every video game can be run on any hardware you choose or be streamed over…

Steam still has to deal with Epic being willing to throw billions at trying to dethrone Steam, and Gog being alive and well and being in the perfect position to say "we told you all along that you shouldn't have to trust Steam, buy your DRM free games here". Also every big publisher wanting to pull their own games to their own storefront and only being forced to crawl back because gamers refuse to leave Steam

And even if they somehow arrived in a market position where being less benevolent would make more money: Valve isn't publicly traded, nobody is forcing them to make the most profitable move. As long as Gabe and the other owners prefer being benevolent they can continue doing it

(not that they are all around benevolent. "consistent" and "usually choosing the side of the customer over the side of the publisher" is maybe the better framing)

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Post by throwaway85825 »

hodgehog11 wrote: post #110
nullsmack wrote: post #45

We need some kind of modern equivalent to the old proposed Digital Media Consumer's Rights Act but which protects people's rights to digital media they buy. These should never be sold and then taken away with no compensation like this. We need a law that forces companies to treat digital files the same as a physical purchase. They can't take it away and have to allow people to resell and loan out as well. And in case…

Not sure if you know this, but this is literally the Stop Killing Games movement. Despite the recent apparent setback as reported in the news, the organisers are in talks with EU MPs that are writing sweeping legislation to address this sort of thing across all digital mediums. You only need legislation like this to hold in one major market to make a big difference.

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