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Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by crote »

PUSH_AX wrote: post #44
jo4329j5 wrote: post #32

That's why I pirate content and will continue to pirate content. I'm not hurting artists. I go to shows and premiers and book signings. I'm perfectly fine with stealing from publishing cartels.

> I'm not hurting artists I guess residuals are a made up thing.

Basically, yeah. A company like Spotify pays fractions of a cent per stream. If you're not a Taylor Swift, residuals are essentially a rounding error. Going to tours, concerts, or signings makes the artist far more money. We've reached a point where Spotify has become nothing more than a well-disguised advertising platform for concerts.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by TheSkyHasEyes »

Grombobulous wrote: post #176

We’re all familiar with all the ways this sucks, of course, so I’ll discuss something else: The fact that someone like Sony can’t negotiate a contract that provides perpetual re-download rights to customers is embarrassing. I doubt that would have cost any money. No movie studio would have objected to the idea that the original buyer gets to keep the non-transferable media forever. I guess they just didn’t think of i…

> can’t

....or won't.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by cheesemonk66 »

itintheory wrote: post #150
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'…

> the Switch 2 takes carts I believe the switch 2 carts don't contain the actual game, just a license key. The game is downloaded on first run.

Many Switch 2 carts contain the entire game. A larger portion just act as a license key.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by yeah879846 »

MarcScott wrote: post #180
dimitri-vs wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1337x

- Type the name of the media you are after into the search bar. - Click search. - Close the tab tab that opens to opera.com - Click search again - Close the starfleetacommand.com tab - Click search again - Close the jerkmaate.net tab - Find your media. - Click the magnet link - Close the livetruematch.com tab The site is garbage.

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Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by M95D »

throwaway85825 wrote: post #130
hodgehog11 wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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Considering the kind of people that get voted into Parliament, I consider that a very good thing.

I only consider true democracies those countries where citizens can force new legislation by national referendum, bypassing parliament. There are very very few countries that allow it, and even fewer where the requirements are low enough to actually allow it to happen.

Anyway, back to the subject. If Stop Killing Games will ever be law, it will be in EU. We already have very nice things like GDPR, USB charging, and replaceable batteries (soon).

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by FlamingMoe »

This is why I recently purchased a NAS and have started storing all my movies and TV shows on it. Especially classics that I will want to watch with my kids when they are older. It's a bit of a PITA to rip dvds, but my thought is that if a movie or show isn't worth the time it takes to rip and transferring to the NAS, then it's probably not worth a watch at all.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by bsimpson »

acdha wrote: post #152
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…

I’d go with a simple proposal: if you use the word “buy” the seller is required to refund buyers if the seller’s action removes access (unlike, say, losing access to a CD or DVD after the disc is scratched). The most likely outcome is that they’d change their storefronts to use the word “rent” but that’s a good outcome (it encourages buyers to accurately understand what they’re paying for) and it would allow other op…

Include "add" and other potential weasel words

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by bsimpson »

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…

> DirectX is losing ground too thanks to Proton and Vulkan

[citation needed]

My understanding is that Proton is effectively a distribution of WINE + DXVK, which does for DirectX what WINE does for Win32. Valve is even on record saying "make one good copy of your game and trust our compatibility tools to port to other platforms" which is effectively saying "use DirectX if you want - Proton will run it just as well."

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by cogman10 »

nradov wrote: post #168
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…

We need consumer boycotts, not legislation. I find it hilarious that people would continue to buy (or license) content from a trash company like Sony after they were caught literally installing rootkits on customer computers. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

Yes, let's boycott sony and go to... sega?

There's only 3 major companies at this point in the home entertainment system market. Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. Microsoft has indicated they want to get out.

When so few companies have so much control over a market boycott becomes pointless as you are basically saying "You need to give up a product you like and there is no real alternative".

That means we need regulation, legislation, and enforcement.

We need better antitrust enforcement and tweaks to to give it more teeth. We should be seeing more corporate breakups.

Memory is in the same boat. There's only 3 major companies producing most of the RAM and they've repeatedly colluded to raise prices.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by bsimpson »

garciansmith wrote: post #63
Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't disagree with you, but open hardware DOES make a difference, in the worst case scenario I can turn the hardware into a GOG machine, or into a PC. Also if they ever lock my library, I am turning to piracy (I have 1000+ games)

Agreed, for sure. Open hardware is the only way forward honestly. As someone who has traditionally played mostly on consoles, it does make me sad, partially because consoles are so much less finicky. But the control is worth it (and work on things like Proton has made playing older games so much smoother). Now if the RAM companies make it so you won't ever be able to afford your own hardware and every game company pu…

SteamOS got me to migrate from a Nintendo.

There's a lot that I love about it, but "choose which of these thousand settings permutations to get the game to look good without crashing" is a major chore.

One nice thing about Valve/Steam leading with hardware is that it gives console-esque performance targets. If you know your device is a bit better than a Steam Deck, you can probably start at the Steam Deck preset and adjust accordingly.

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