Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them

Post by apparent » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 10:35 PM UTC

Reason077 wrote: post #357

Nevermark wrote: post #307

Revocation should come with full refunds. That would: 1. Balance the revocation economically, for both parties, while leaving the decision to the "seller". 2. The trade becomes the time-value of money vs. the time value of access. Inherently fair. The seller nets interest, and the inflation drop on the original price. What an accountant would come up with, yet automatic. 3. Provide users the remunerative recourse for…

> ”Revocation should come with full refunds.” Of course it should. If Sony are not doing that then it sounds like grounds for a class action? I remember when Google shut down Stadia. To their credit, they automatically refunded everything I’d ever purchased on the platform. Nice little windfall.

Post by voakbasda » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 10:40 PM UTC

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voakbasda wrote: post #277

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Can we though? There is marked difference in how the government reacts to populist demands. Notably, they learned from Vietnam how to manipulate the population to divide public opinion. I am not sure people today can overcome such organized machinations.

Of course we can. Using foreign wars to prosecute domestic agenda is a strategy that predates written history, let alone Vietnam. Rulers have always understood which levers were available to them, this is not a modern discovery. Classical history in particular is full of this sort of thing and worse in a democratic context, which is comforting in the sense of where we stand and concerning in the sense of where things…

Post by 8fingerlouie » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 10:46 PM UTC

Junk_Collector wrote: post #198

8fingerlouie wrote: post #83

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Phone gaming with a USC-C display or simply cast to the TV, and Bluetooth remotes. It might not be as bad as it sounds. My phone has 12GB RAM, 256GB NVME SSD, a decent GPU and a dedicated AI chipset as well. Sure, it won’t beat a tricked out gaming PC with some $4000 GPU in it, but it will probably be competitive with console gaming. Granted, the PS5 is 5-6 years old by now, but my phone has more power in every measu…

That's a Nintendo Switch. The general purpose docking OS was what Win8 was supposed to be but it was flubbed horribly.

Post by ndsipa_pomu » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC

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Part of what I've always hated about consoles is the inevitable push toward an entirely new generation of hardware when the current hardware is more than capable. The best games I've played in the last year would run on a PS4 and probably even a PS3 with a little optimization, yet we're already at the "end" of the PS5. It's so disingenuous. We should be squeezing everything we can out of the wonderful hardware we hav…

John Carmack said it in about 2011, if you cannot make your game vision work on a 360 or PS3 you are doing something wrong. I get that we have made huge strides in rendering tech, but the broad idea behind that I can still get behind. Other than higher res assets, shaders and cleaner rendering; I havent seen anything that probably couldnt be done on those systems and still broadly have the same overall feel.

Post by ndsipa_pomu » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 10:58 PM UTC

chrisweekly wrote: post #195

I know I'm not the only one here who remembers the Sony rootkit debacle in the age of CDs. One of the all-time worst companies I can think of when it comes to mistreating customers.