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I don’t even sail the high seas these days, but objectively it’s the morally right thing to do. They’re straight-up stealing from people and giving them nothing in return. So please pirate anything and everything Sony!
"From September 1, 2026, due to our content licensing agreements, you will no longer be able to access your previously purchased content from Studio Canal, and it will be removed from your video library.
Fuck
Thankyou,PlayStation Store"
Fixed it for you.
Thanks to Sony for showing us why digital piracy is necessary and justified.
If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing
Sony being Sony since at least the 80s
And they say not to pirate, LOL!
If i buy digitial i should reserve the right to download and retain that item in a digital format
Rrrr matey. Thats why all my digital purchases are accompanied by me grabbing a copy I can keep when the Enshitification hits the fan.
I truly feel sorry for everyone affected but it’s also important to draw firm conclusions from this happening to oneself.
I’ve had this happen to me once, bought myself an Album on Amazon Music, back then the Amazon Music App was rather unusable so I just downloaded the MP3, years later I wanted to redownload some of the “worse” songs from this album I had deleted/lost over the years. Gone, the entire thing gone. Still there in my purchase history, unavailable anywhere else. Best part: the album itself was still on Amazon so I could have bought it again.
I drew my conclusion: Never buy with DRM. Always download the files, even if I don’t need them.
never support amazon
Buy Blu-ray’s and DVD’s.
Yeah, this is why I don’t buy digital movies.
No DRM Free download option.
FWIW, I buy digital music all the time, because I can download it, back it up, etc.
And just to be sure make a digital copy of those so you have at least 2 versions available should either version degrade.
In some jurisdiction bypassing the DRM for strictly personal use is even legal, in those where it’s not: if you don’t share your private copy can anyone even prove you bypassed it?
Maybe able to get away with it if your not using a PC with AI snitch
or don’t bother with making copies and just pirate a copy later if there’s an issue with the disc.
Runs you the risk of getting caught plus is more work if you need a specific version rather than just a version.
I thought disc rot wasn’t a thing anymore with Blu-ray?
All physical objects degrade with time. Factory-pressed commercial discs like movies have an expected lifespan of 10-20 years assuming they’re stored properly at all times.
I am not an optical disc expert, but I recall with CDs/DVDs, factory pressed are more resilient whereas burned discs can rot more easily. I believe this still holds true with BR. Furthermore, there are carbon-based BR discs that profess to not exhibit data rot for 1000 years.
Depends how you store them.
That and the quality of the disc. There used to be a manufacturer grade rating for the CD/DVDs. Don’t know if BR got rated as well.
Sony pulled Linux from the PS3.
They’ve also pulled similar stuff on phones and other gadgets.
They lost my trust and I won’t buy anything from them again.
Same here, ever since this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
lol yeah I was gonna say I think it was the time they put a fucking virus on my computer
… and so do I.
Sony pulled Linux from the PS3.
which was there so Sony could sell their console with a lower tax rate in some countries because it qualified as a “Personal Computer” due to Linux being available, whereas without they would have needed to sell it as “Entertainment Media”
Here is the excellent itemised history of the nonsense seen, during the introduction of streaming media:
I’m so old I remember when sony was a decent brand
back in the early days of walkmans, you could call 'em up toll-free, say you lost the battery cover or the headphone cable is broke, and they’d send you a replacement. no worries about ‘warranty’, no cost to you…
So like, pre 1997?
Curious: what exactly happened in 1997 regarding Sony?
I was loosely guessing the year based on memory. But I think it was around then that they tried some music DRM shit that installed a root kit on your PC if you put the disc in it, and it screwed up a ton of computers. Caused major vulnerabilities and backdoors for other virus’ and exploits and they got sued and government basically put a stop to their DRM tactics.
Well as I wrote this, I decided to look up exactly when this happened, and I was pretty far off. Time all runs together the older I get. It didn’t happen until 2005.
Hey, thanks.
I didn’t remember the exact year of the rootkit incident but I knew it was around the mid-2000s because that’s when I coincidentally started to try Linux (and fully switched to it in a year or two) and I would pay attention to this kind of news (I guess they played a role in my commitment to Linux).
Well, so there might not be something special about 1997 regarding Sony after all… but I agree about Sony being at their peak in the 90s.
No they didn’t. You just need to download an app called qbittorrent, click the search tab, type the movie name then double click the one at the top with the highest number of ‘seeders’. Shortly thereafter the movie will be safely on your computer.
