Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

Posted by bilsbie 7 hours ago

Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For(reclaimthenet.org)

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jo4329j5 5 hours ago|

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.

PUSH_AX 5 hours ago|

> I'm not hurting artists

I guess residuals are a made up thing.

crote 1 hour ago|||

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.

PUSH_AX 1 hour ago||

Ok cool, can I cherry pick now? TV actors in expansive TV series' with residuals in their contract. It can be a significant part of their income.

Waterluvian 5 hours ago||||

The communication on this could be better. I feel like I’ve heard that artists often get pretty much nothing.

At some point, being more honest about what artists get paid will probably help the middlemen more than harm them.

someonebaggy 5 hours ago|||

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RajT88 3 hours ago||

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.

piltdownman 6 hours ago||

Sony literally distributed a rootkit in the guise of DRM for Audio CDs back when piracy meant CD-R distribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

Anyone remotely surprised at their history of utter contempt for the end-user need only remind themselves of SVP Steve Heckler's remarks to conference attendee's in 2000

"The industry will take whatever steps it needs to protect itself and protect its revenue streams ... It will not lose that revenue stream, no matter what ... Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this. We will develop technology that transcends the individual user."

https://web.archive.org/web/20090318115847/http://www.nyfair...

The remarks of Stewart Baker of the DHS admonishing Sony are as relevant today as they were then; namely that "it's your intellectual property - it's not your computer."

https://web.archive.org/web/20051229031842/http://www.mp3new...

azalemeth 6 hours ago|

I haven't bought a single Sony product since then. I used to have a Sony walkman, clock radio, buy classical Sony CDs (or their sub brands), etc, nearly got an original PlayStation.

I wrote a letter to them after the rootkit fiasco saying they've lost a consumer for life. Didn't get a real response. Wrote to them last anti DRM day. Didn't get a response.

Really, this is the only power one has in capitalism -- don't buy their products.

stronglikedan 5 hours ago||

I really hope this leads to a class action that sets precedence, but I won't hold my breath or even consider whether that's even possible.

someonebaggy 4 hours ago|

Class actions are usually not very effective. Each affected individual will receive $0.03 and the company will pay 0.5% of the money it made from this maneuver. What actually works is the opposite, mass small claims lawsuits for refunds, because that way the cost of handling those cases is much higher for the company than for the individual.

Cider9986 3 hours ago||

https://fmhy.net is the most comprehensive piracy guide ever creates with over 30k links.

bloomingeek 5 hours ago||

Wait, people trusted a corporation and got screwed?!? Why, that's...unheard of!(My wife, bless her, has "purchased" dozens of movies on amazon. I warned her that when the amazon wind changes, she may regret those purchases. I got the look.)

mskonline 2 hours ago||

Or when the account gets compromised. I recently lost my amazon account and with it, all of my kindle purchases. Fortunately, I was able to turn on the airplane mode on my kindle just in time and preserve the books which were already downloaded. Guess I have to jail break it some day.

devn0ll 5 hours ago|||

I understand where you are going with this, but it also feels incorrect to me to blame people innocently "buying" media from a $corporation.

What are people to do if they want to stay on the non-pirate/legal side of this but also prevent being royally F-ed?

someonebaggy 4 hours ago|||

There's no overlap. Just pirate.

ahartmetz 3 hours ago||||

I suppose you could "buy" and also get a copy off of thepiratebay.org - you already paid for the license. It is teeechnically illegal because the "purchase" agreement very likely doesn't allow backups, but come on. (Also, the uploading part of torrenting is usually separately illegal)

nkrisc 4 hours ago|||

You can just not watch a movie. No one needs movies.

Capricorn2481 4 hours ago||

Nobody said otherwise.

someonebaggy 5 hours ago||

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danbruc 3 hours ago||

What did those movies cost? More like a movie ticket or more like a Blu-ray?

jobs_throwaway 5 hours ago||

This is one reason why piracy is legitimate and important

cooprh 3 hours ago|

Excellent time to get a Jellyfin instance setup!

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