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Sony is going to remove certain purchased titles from user libraries (www.playstation.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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As always, the paying user has the worst experience. "Purchase" a show, can only watch on a certain console of a certain brand, no transfers, no backups, then it suddenly disappears from the library and nothing can be done.

If media companies insist on draconian DRM, then they should pay for full refunds to their loyal customers when one day they decide to delist that specific show.

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[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

That list of shows that's being removed is huge too.

God I hope people reconsider purchasing products from companies that do these kind of things to them.

At some point you think if they get smacked up the side of their heads enough times that they will actually wake up and do something about it.

[-] KpochMX@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago

This is why i hate digital only and no more game disc, also battlepass and dlc.

you own nothing but pays the full price for the permission to play and they cant remove access at any time.-

Marvel vs capcom 2 its my favorite game and they removed from store, i know is about licensing but they will not come to my house for the DVD Disc right?

[-] noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de 9 points 11 months ago

That's 1318 items, according to that table, counting by seasons. Insane.

[-] Lath@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

Whoever wrote that list probably isn't being paid enough.

[-] DrQuint@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

sony is going to steal

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 11 months ago

Scrolling through the list I can't believe that people actually watch that shit, let alone pay for it.

It's all the kind of crap that people leave used to leave on in the background and to get bombarded with 4 sets of adverts an hour. The direct result of needing to fill 200 channels as cheaply as possible.

Refunding everyone would probably cost Sony less than a million. I'd wager some of those shows nobody has ever purchased.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Deadly Dentists didn't get good until season 2 anyway.

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[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Some series have a weird pattern of deletion.

LA Ink | Season 1

LA Ink | Season 6

LA Ink | Season 7

Lolwut. Does it mean 2-5 are still availiable or they never were?

It's all Discovery Channel's properties, and it's a good day to rewatch their classics and seed them.

[-] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Sony kind of has their hands tied on this one. The shows they’re delisting (or are not able to relicense) kind of get to take their IP off of the system, no?

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[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

This has actually always been my reason for piracy. I've always been able to afford games, thankfully, so I've used piracy as a means of demoing games as demos became more and more rare and more commonly and more importantly I've used piracy as a means of preserving games. I have no problems paying for a game if I can also keep it indefinitely and play it forever, and thanks to piracy that is actually possible.