Technology

If you can’t own digital copies since they’re not property, then piracy isn’t theft.

They just want us to pirate everything right? Like, that is the only logical response to this.

This seems illegal unless Sony reimburses everyone for the removed content.

If you don't own it when paying for it then you aren't stealing it when pirating it.

this is an ad for piracy, right?

I stopped piraring when I graduated college and streaming started to be wonderful. It is now a bleak hellscape that is more expensive than ever. Time to buy 20tb of hard drives and install Jellyfin I guess :(

Amazon does the same thing. You don't own digital content you pay for, you're renting it.

"Buying" media with drm is a mistake.

I buy books from audible sometimes, but I immediately rip the drm out. Use Plex to store your movies and TV shows, it does music ok too now.

People this doesn't affect are pirates. People who get to enjoy their media without worry are pirates. When pirates are getting the better experience and it's customers who are getting affected what incentive is there to not pirate other than personal morals. Because it sure isn't for a better product.

This is why I buy the physical copies of shows/movies I like and just pirate the rest

Dont trust these guys to not screw you over

NOT OK

I’ve pretty much switched to streaming and paying for content. This makes me question that decision. This just makes the pirates look right.

Looks like enshittification of the internet is really kicking in. Decentralized platforms, and piracy needs to be the new normal

This is why we must protect physical media.

Remember, kids: When you pirate a show, you're intentionally abusing the cast and crew by withholding revenue from them! (Even though the majority of them do not make royalties from it and even those that do make peanuts compared to how much money the publisher just pockets.)

But also remember, kids: When the publisher decides to strip you of a show that you paid their explicitly specified "forever price" for, that's 100% their right and they would never do anything without the complete and uncritical backing of the people who made the show. And if you have any negative thoughts about that, you're also intentionally abusing the cast and crew by wanting to watch it when they have clearly spoken through the publisher that they definitely never want you to watch them again, and their only wish is that their media legacy will be randomly erased from people's access at the drop of the corporate hat.

It's all about creators here at our humble multi billion dollar publishing company and digital rights brokerage!

Then shocked pikachu face when everybody goes back to the high seas.

I wonder if the studios understand how much they are going to be shaking confidence in digital purchases by doing this. I know I'm going to think twice before I pay money for another digital copy of a movie or TV show.

At least when Microsoft was pulling the plug on their music streaming service, they gave everyone the ability to just download all of the songs that you owned.

So pirate the shows. Easy peasy.

This is why I only watch my VHS copy of Space Camp. Do you really own your media if you didn’t get Space Camp out of the 99¢ bin following the Challenger crash when movies about launching kids into space were on sale?

Classic sony move. Remember Linux in ps2...