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Oh look, Sony revoking more licenses for video content that people "bought".

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I’m down to one streaming service left. Just need to… ahem… acquire the rest of what I want to watch there before I no longer pay monthly for services I barely use, where anything can be ripped away from us at any time.

Never again.

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've been boycotting Sony since the CD rootkit debacle & haven't regretted my decision yet.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn i remember that shit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I lost a very expensive (at the time) CD-RW to that shit.

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[–] [email protected] 298 points 1 year ago (13 children)

You know what say: if buying isn’t owning then pirating isn’t stealing.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is why we prefer to buy physical media, getting a digital with it is nice, but physical is key.

It wasn't even me was pushing for us to get physical media, it was my spouse. Of course my plex server the house probably helped. But after a few "forever" is only until next month, or shows completely disappearing altogether from any streaming, they started pushing for more physical media.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Good news, physical media can still have revocable DRM

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Its barely the second month of the year and these companies are nose diving to the fucking bottom.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

IIRC, though, that wasn’t Sony’s decision - WB yanked the licenses because they wanted those shows to only be on their streaming platform.

So it’s just irony that Sony is doing the same thing now.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Once they sold the copies, then the licenses for those copies were no longer Sony's or WB's to yank.

This shit is no different whatsoever from a store owner breaking into customers' houses to steal back products they'd bought and paid for to settle a payment dispute with a supplier.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“The bar you had to clear was on the ground and y’all brought shovels.”

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 year ago

🏴‍☠️ sharing is caring.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Someone is going to be a high seas king after this for sure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Funimation, a Sony-owned streaming service for anime, recently announced that subscribers' digital libraries on the platform will be unavailable after April 2.

For years, Funimation had been telling subscribers that they could keep streaming these digital copies of purchased movies and shows, but qualifying it: “forever, but there are some restrictions.”

But in addition to offering video streaming, Funimation also dubbed and released anime as physical media, and sometimes those DVDs or Blu-rays would feature a digital code.

For people lacking the space, resources, or interest in maintaining a library of physical media, this was a good way to preserve treasured shows and movies without spending more money.

It also provided a simple way to access purchased media online if you were, for example, away on a trip and had a hankering to watch some anime DVDs you bought.

Regarding refunds, Funimation's announcement directed customers to its support team "to see the available options based on your payment method," but there's no mention of getting money back from a DVD or Blu-ray that you might not have purchased had you known you couldn't stream it "forever."


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