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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 Gigachad »

tartoran wrote: post #54
NoSalt wrote: post #15

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 t…

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.

The iPhone has never had a microsd slot, many years before icloud existed.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by temporallobe »

Would live to hear an attorney’s opinion on this - why isn’t this considered to be something like “constructive theft” just like constructive abandonment or constructive dismissal? Sony deceived millions of customers by implying that purchasing something meant permanent ownership (as permanent as digital media can be), then through legal trickery and without consent, essentially “took” away their digital property. I wonder if legal concepts such as “constructive larceny” or “theft by conversion” could be applied here, or if this would be considered destruction of property?

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by Gigachad »

mort96 wrote: post #95
NoSalt wrote: post #15

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 t…

I just wish it was possible to buy decent ųSD cards. Even really expensive ones sold in reputable stores die all the time. Sure they work just fine if your goal is to write photos into it, never delete anything and get a new one once it fills up, but anything more write heavy typically kills my SD cards within months. SSDs last decades.

An SD card should only ever be treated as a local cache for data you can replace or will soon move to more permanent storage. Even if you had the best card in the world you could still lose or have your phone stolen.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by unselect5917 »

majesticmerc wrote: post #199
MarcScott wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- 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.

Ublock Origin (at least on Firefox, RIP Chromium users) makes all these problems go away instantly.

I use Ublock on Brave (chromium). Ublock is supposed to be unnecessary with brave alone, but I use it all the time to delete annoying UI elements mostly permanently.

Why anyone still uses vanilla Chrome for personal use is beyond me while brave exists and is actively maintained. It's essentially youtube premium for free even on mobile.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by temporallobe »

Buttons840 wrote: post #143
Danii27 wrote: post #84

The honest product description would be: "You are purchasing a revocable license to stream this content at our discretion, for an unspecified period, subject to change without notice." Nobody would buy that. So they say "buy" instead, and courts have largely let them get away with it. Until legislation actually forces the word "buy" to mean ownership, this will keep happening.

I disagree. People would still buy that. There's a dangerous path where the companies are required to describe these transactions as "rentals", but that wont actually solve anything. If we require clearer advertising, we're going to end up with a world where everything is very clearly a rental, and there simply is no option to purchase. People will still buy the $40 "rentals" because it's their favorite movie and the…

> I think people understand the situation when they "purchase" digital media. They know it might not last forever.

I don’t think this is true at all because 1) truly nothing is forever, i.e., even physical media degrades over time or gets lost, stolen, etc., and 2) the customer is absolutely led to believe that “purchase” means ownership similar to having a physical copy, as long as that service provider exists. Otherwise it’s clearly a rental.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by charcircuit »

haakon wrote: post #62
charcircuit wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's copyright infringement. They do not have the rights to distribute the movies.

You're right, we should strive for compliance with copyrights and distribution licenses in our personal lives.

It is the best way to support artists and the industry.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by rustcleaner »

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…

Never buy, never subscribe, obtain by other means, until things change.

Starve 'em!

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by someonebaggy »

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.

The Pirate Bay is also like that. Get uBlock Origin.

Re: Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Post by someonebaggy »

unselect5917 wrote: post #234
majesticmerc wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ublock Origin (at least on Firefox, RIP Chromium users) makes all these problems go away instantly.

I use Ublock on Brave (chromium). Ublock is supposed to be unnecessary with brave alone, but I use it all the time to delete annoying UI elements mostly permanently. Why anyone still uses vanilla Chrome for personal use is beyond me while brave exists and is actively maintained. It's essentially youtube premium for free even on mobile.

Well first of all, uBlock is a version that was sold to advertising companies many years ago, which is why uBlock Origin was created.

uBlock Origin is the one that Google blocked on Chrome by redesigning how extensions work, creating a big fuss. You could try uBlock Origin Lite but, well, it's called Lite for a reason, as it can't block as much stuff. Or you could switch to a browser that supports adblock extensions, which is Firefox.

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