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PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

https://kotaku.com/playstation-store-movies-digital-studio-canal-terminator-2000711013
82•ortusdux•2h ago

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dc3k•1h ago
it should not be legal for the product page to say “purchase” or “buy” when in reality you’re only renting it with a to be determined end date
dathinab•1h ago
and this should include musics and similar in games (excluding stuff like sessional content)

if you sell a game you should have to have bought a license to use the music (and similar) in the game permanently (for given game sold, new sold revision can change what they contain but only if there isn't deceptive advertisement and it's very clearly labeled that it's a different revision/the content changed!).

b112•1h ago
Yes, 100%, and that end date should be very clearly listed too.
LoganDark•52m ago
Renting what? The non-exclusive, revocable license? Because that's what purchase or buy means.
skywhopper•6m ago
No, that’s not what “purchase” or “buy” means.
mistyvales•51m ago
Pretty sure the Terms of Use say just that. They should update the language on the frontend though.
jmclnx•1h ago
Off to small claims court people should go. Amazon tried something similar and got in trouble because people when after them.

And people wonder why some people sail the high seas.

cebert•18m ago
I believe you’d lose in small claims court as all of the streaming companies make it clear you’re purchasing a revokable license.
pinkmuffinere•11m ago
Wow, "purchasing a revokable license" is an insane concept. Purchase of something revokable in general feels like... not purchasing? If there was a definite time bound that's one thing, but imagine if I sell a revokable license and then revoke it a week later -- it seems like that would be allowed?

I don't mean to disagree with you, and I have basically no expertise in this area, just shocked by the whole thing.

darreninthenet•10m ago
Would likely win in the UK as we have an unfair terms regulation, a small claims court could easily rule it an unfair as any reasonable consumer would assume they were purchasing the movie to watch whenever they want to.
skywhopper•5m ago
No, that is not what the plain meaning of “purchase” is.
thomasmarton•1h ago
Piracy is justified especially when it comes to movies!

If I am buying a DVD, I own that copy regardless of the studio and the distributor being in legal trouble or not. If I "buy" or "purchase" something online, I expect the same thing.

I'm not always a fan of the EU over-regulating some things but I feel like they should start fining companies who want to re-define the meaning of the word purchase

nerdsniper•1h ago
Jellyfin + Jellyseer + PassThePopcorn has served me and my friends/family well. I pay $50/mo now for a seedbox with 16TB but it serves 20 people. I would self-host for $0/month but my current apartment only has Xfinity, not AT&T and the upload isn’t enough to self-host.

It’s less about the money and more about:

1) Having a single place to go for any TV show or movie. I found it very frustrating trying to figure out what service had which show - sometimes none of them have it (a few things are still not streamable at all - e.g. “Sharky and George”)

2) Knowing that my streaming service isn’t downgrading the video quality. Even my lay friends notice the picture quality improvement vs Amazon / Hulu etc.

3) Jellyseer lets my friends request media that gets auto-downloaded. So it’s a curated list of content which helps me discover high quality stuff to watch.

Eric_WVGG•1h ago
punishing customers for not using BitTorrent seems like a weird strategy but I’m not an MBA so what do I know
plagiarist•11m ago
The amount of people who are willing to tolerate the "cable-ization" of streaming services is far larger than those who will torrent
Karliss•1h ago
Again? They already tried to pull that one a few years ago.

[1] https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Sony%27s_attempted_removal_of_...

functionmouse•58m ago
they can do it as many times as they want until it works, then that's precedent
Macha•46m ago
They did get away with it in 2024:

https://filmstories.co.uk/news/funimation-streaming-app-to-s...

(For those without the background: In 2020, Sony bought Crunchyroll and in 2024 merged it with Funimation (acquired by Sony subsidiary Aniplex in 2017). Since Crunchyroll had the larger streaming service, this was done by moving the Funimation library to Crunchyroll. However, Funimation also has a business selling digital copies, not just streaming access, which was discontinued including access to purchased media)

ganelonhb•56m ago
Wow.
alpineman•54m ago
No refunds. Sounds like Playstation customer support. The most customer-unfriendly policies a company could think of.
PacificSpecific•42m ago
A decade ago they pulled my purchased copy of mortal kombat 2. Not the first time they've done stuff like this.

I stuck to buying hard copies and dwindled off the series as they started to charge just to play multiplayer.

whycome•35m ago
Fix the headline to say Sony
patmcc•35m ago
They should absolutely be forced to provide either a refund or a downloadable copy, this is absurd. It sounds like they didn't actually have the license necessary to be able to sell these movies in any reasonable way.
socalgal2•21m ago
Sony sucks and I will never give them another dime. Had a PS5 with a 120+ games (majority PS4), also PSVR2, got f-ed over by Sony when they would not refund in incorrect game purchase I'd bought literally minutes before asking for the refund. Gave up my PS5, I will never purchase anything from Sony ever again. Recommend everyone else do the same.
mannanj•10m ago
How soon until the digital distributions are owned by just a few cartels, and later when it’s suitable for them, they also modify digital movies to suit a political agenda without letting you know?
AdmiralAsshat•5m ago
How is it that Steam manages to avoid yanking games from people's libraries even after the games are delisted for licensing issues, etc? I have multiple games that you can't "buy" anymore, but Steam doesn't stop me from reinstalling them as often as I like.

Are they negotiating that as part of the deal with their vendors? Or is it as simple as "We're not dicks." ?

rachel-ftw•2m ago
This is making me mad enough that I’m going to spend my weekend figuring out a media server and pirating movies.

If buying isn’t owning, pirating isn’t stealing. Fuck those guys.

It’s been 20 years since I’ve pirated shit, but here we are again…

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