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Posted by nekusar 9 hours ago

Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them(www.techdirt.com)
512 points | 312 commentspage 2
ocd 2 hours ago|
Sony and other vendors got to remove the concurrency problem of tangible items, and it's only fair the internet of file sharing gets to solve the concurrency problem of a public library in the same way.
FitchApps 4 hours ago||
So the only "buy" option one has now is to torrent the movie? At least no one is going to delete the mp4 file.
anal_reactor 4 hours ago|
The problem with torrents is that they naturally die when people lose interest.
k4rli 1 hour ago||
If it's something worth watching, then very unlikely. 99.9% of movies/tv simply aren't.
runamuck 1 hour ago||
Is there any way to buy long (decades) lasting physical media?
dcchuck 3 hours ago||
Curious what others use to store media for home/remote use.

I naively assumed my purchases from [company A] would mean I have permanent/immutable access. Even in the case of access not being revoked, I've found content itself changes over time. Usually related to jokes which have "not aged well" let us say.

I'm not here to champion leaving in that content. Or defend nostalgic rewatching. It just feels strange to not acknowledge.

mortenjorck 8 hours ago||
As bad as this is, it’s worth noting that this is the same incident that was widely reported earlier this month. Sony has only rugpulled hundreds of purchased titles from customers once this year.

So far.

bluescrn 7 hours ago|
But their timing was amazing, doing it just days before they announced that they were ending releases of games on physical media.
lemoncookiechip 8 hours ago||
If they offered refunds this would still be terrible.

They don't even offer refunds.

bogometer 7 hours ago||
if you cant hold it your hands, you don't own it. used dvd and bluray on ebay are cheaper anyway. another underutilized resource - the public library - mine has a huge catalog of movies you can borrow for free.
teroshan 6 hours ago||
> another underutilized resource - the public library

As an indication of where things are going on this front, from the same publisher: Sony announced that games are not going to get distributed as physical copies anymore. So no new video games to be borrowed from public libraries, and even if you can borrow older games the new Playstations probably won't even have a disk tray to read them.

Whatever your stance on video games being something that is worth having in a library is, if they could get away with it that's probably their ideal end game for movies as well.

inigyou 5 hours ago||
Time for libraries to start carrying hard drives full of pirated copies, I guess.
cliglot 7 hours ago|||
Sadly mine has awful, inconvenient hours because it became the local fight club for teenagers.
qingcharles 6 hours ago||
Depending on your library, you might be able to stream the same movies online for free. Check their web site.
naravara 7 hours ago|||
If you can hold it in your hands you still might not necessarily own it. Remember DivX? (The medium, not the codec).
ssl-3 6 hours ago||
Remember Meraki?
bellowsgulch 2 hours ago|||
If someone can take it away from you after you've paid for it.*

Physically holding things in the digital age, where someone can remotely change your software, or render it unusable, isn't true ownership.

gibberish678678 4 hours ago||
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pluralmonad 8 hours ago||
Hopefully most of these folks that have been scammed know how to sail the high seas.
chuckadams 5 hours ago|
Which is a bit tricky on a Playstation. Sure you can scrounge up some Jellyfin-ish sort of thing, but most people buy on the console platform because they specifically don't want to jump through hoops.
MYEUHD 6 hours ago||
Previous discussions:

Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For (294 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747389

Sony erases digital content from libraries (74 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730904

21asdffdsa12 6 hours ago|
Once its deleted it becomes a indefinite p(irate) license.
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