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PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For::Sony says Mythbusters and more Discovery TV shows are going away whether you bought them or not

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[–] [email protected] 264 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Easy there on the sound logical arguments buddy, you'll have the lawyers shitting their pants.

[–] WhatAmLemmy 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You will own nothing, we will bleed you dry, and you will love it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You will love getting used to less

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not theft. It's why they named it piracy instead of theft. Because it's different.

[–] Psychodelic 10 points 1 year ago

It's weird this needs to be repeated so often. Just goes to show how often media corpos repeated the lie that creating a copy of something and sharing it with someone else is the same thing as stealing physical property from someone.