there will be a high-profile class action lawsuit, lawyers will get paid. those that 'bought' content that got deleted will get a $10 voucher for more digital content.
PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For
Submitted 1 year ago by neme@lemm.ee to moviesandtv@lemm.ee
https://kotaku.com/sony-ps4-ps5-discovery-mythbusters-tv-1851066164?
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ares35@kbin.social 1 year ago
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
When it comes to lawsuits, companies just look at it from a economic perspective.
How much will it cost to do nothing
How much will it cost to do something and pay for the change and pay off customers as little as possible.
They don’t care about what is right or wrong, what is moral and what is not, what laws to follow and what laws to break … all they care about is either saving money or making money.
If they could justify crushing hundreds of little puppies because it could save money for the company … they’d do it and launch a marketing campaign to tell us all that it is acceptable.
ITypeWithMyDick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Would the puppy crushing machine be next to the orphan crushing machine? The company will need to at least one to maximize profit.
Its not their fault, why dont you ever think of the shareholders!
CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ha! Every one of their customers agreed to an arbitration clause and, I bet, even protects Sony from this exact situation.
Remember you don’t own anything. Just a license to use the media however they see fit.
Piracy ftw!
TonyHawksPoTater@kbin.social 1 year ago
This is how most digital media works. You're not buying the media, you're buying a license for the media. Unfortunately, usually there's a clause in the EULA about how the license can be revoked at any time.
o0joshua0o@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re right, but that is a bullshit system that can easily disenfranchise the customer, and people are right to be upset about it.
Gigan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Correct. It’s just a lot harder to revoke on physical media.
echo64@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not just harder. It’s impossible. Physical media is yours, and the license to view is not revocable. You do own the media.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I once lost a game from my ps library, just vanished. I still had the saves in my hard drive. So I called PlayStation who said it could have been a network glitch from the update, but since they lost any record of the purchase and I had made it years earlier, so I deleted the email, I never got my game back. That’s why I despise digital Games. Sony can’t walk in my house and take my physical game, but you break a rule or there’s a glitch and suddenly Sony can steal back every game you bought
wrath_of_grunge@kbin.social 1 year ago
protip: don't delete receipts.
most email storage these days is so rediculously huge, there's no reason to delete those emails. make a folder for them (Playstation receipts, Steam receipts, etc).
that said, physical media is on it's way out. i'd be surprised if the next gen of systems is even offered with a disc drive. at this point, most games are way more data than a Blu-Ray can hold.
lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Physical media really doesn’t help, because many games are delivered with bad bugs. These are fixed by updates. Unless you can actually download and archive the updates, reinstalling a deleted/corrupted game from backup media alone is impossible.
What is needed is a consumer bill of rights that requires companies to provide the purchased game with the latest update to the buyer upon request should they abandon it. If the game requires a server, that software code should be made public domain. An abandoned online game’s copyright should also be voided. That would allow the gaming community to legally provide updates and servers for continued use.
Shalakushka@kbin.social 1 year ago
Boot licking victim blaming at its finest. What about Sony's responsibility not to steal your shit? Responsibility for the consumer, never the corporation.
SexyTimeSasquatch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well yeah, this behavior was completely foreseeable. Obviously you could take to the high seas, but if you want to legally own a copy of media, buy a physical copy.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Yeah. Its worth remembering that tv/movies tend to have MUCH stricter distribution rights. Generally speaking, a purchased game is available for the lifetime of the service (whether it is playable depends on backend stuff). Whereas, if Discovery says “Get our sexy walrus off your service” you lose it instantly
Its one of the reasons that I generally don’t see the point in buying “digital media” outside of special circumstances. I am either going to “rent” it (either pay a rental fee or have a subscription) or get the blu-ray (… if available).
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If it’s not on your hard drive it’s not yours.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
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Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Two things can simultaneously be wrong.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Interestingly enough in this case only one thing is wrong:
You
dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
No. You’re wrong. It cantn’t.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
So, it is good what they did?
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Buying is owning, though. In this case, you own a license to access Sony’s media on several conditions.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That’s not real ownership. If they can come in and take the stuff you bought away at any time, you don’t own it. If you own something, you should be allowed to make a copy of it and share it with your friends.