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PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For (kotaku.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] EndOfLine 132 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Not the first time people "bought" digital media only to have it taken away.

Physical media or local downloads is the way to go.

[–] ABCDE 55 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Apple did it to apps I bought years ago, Microsoft has done it with Live Arcade games I can no longer redownload, and Nintendo closed their online stores to consoles they stopped supporting. The only store I can think of at the moment which doesn't seem to fuck people is Steam (perhaps Epic but it's too new to cast opinions on).

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

Epic fucks people in other ways.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The only store I can think of at the moment which doesn't seem to fuck people is Steam

About that...

[–] AceBonobo 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not exactly Valve's fault

"To be fair, with the servers shutdown, the game would have been impossible to play anyways. This isn’t simply because it’s an online-only game. In fact, Order of War: Challenge has 18 single-player missions as well. But due to always-online DRM, even the single-player portion of the game requires the servers to be up and running."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I guess it's the Always-On DRM that's the issue. Best get rid of that entirely, or force developers to disclose IN LARGE PRINT if a game has it, like they did with parental warning stickers in the late 1980's. And I mean FORCE, as in "you can't be on Steam/whatever because you have unnecessary DRM"

I can still play World Of Goo any time I damn well choose because I paid for it and I own it and the developers were probably not inherently evil humans.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can still play World Of Goo [...] and the developers were probably not inherently evil humans.

Well, both creators of WoG are former EA employees, so...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Also, at the end of the article:

"Update: It appears that contrary to what I first believed, the single-player portion of the game---Order of War without the "Challenge"---is still available on Steam, and only the multi-player content has been removed."

[–] ABCDE 12 points 9 months ago

Square fucked people about there, making it impossible to play.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (2 children)

No DRM is the way to go, physical or digital. Some physical DRM can revoke the licence on the disk (like Blu-ray)

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And don't forget shit like Flexplay. The no-return rental DVD that self-destructs after ~48 hours. How ecological. Thankfully it was discontinued in 2011.

[–] GONADS125 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Not to be confused with Flexi Disc, which was essentially a CD-sized vinyl record with a sample track, that used to be inserted into magazines. Especially big in russia.

The sound quality left a lot to be desired. He's a very rare Slowdive track with a banging tempo that was only released on Flexi Disc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Warning: You left tracker in the YouTube link: https://youtu.be/TyePtIPTfB4?si=GgCtvVl-npQWAAGM

This is just the video link: https://youtu.be/TyePtIPTfB4

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/TyePtIPTfB4

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] GONADS125 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks, fixed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

He's a very rare Slowdive track

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] asdfasdfasdf 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How? It would need an internet connection to revoke it, and you can't write to the Blu-ray disc can you? In other words, you could just turn off internet connection from the player?

[–] LifeInOregon 2 points 9 months ago

Blu-Ray discs can carry offline updates that blacklist other discs. All players must support these updates as part of licensing the technology. All your blu-rays may play today, but if an update comes along to revoke the license on a title and you play a disc that carries the update that enables that revocation, it won’t play back on your device. It’s occasionally been used to disable known pirated discs, and so far hasn’t been used on licensed materials, but “so far” is never much assurance.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Welcome to data hoarding

[–] KpntAutismus 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

when 4TBs are 50-100€, you bet your ass i'm gonna host a jellyfin server for the entire family.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Damn right you are

[–] Lemminary 15 points 9 months ago

*coughs in pirate*

[–] topperharlie 8 points 9 months ago

I had to change my email/account with google and couldn't port the apps in the gplay store. This was mostly due to having a google domains that did many years ago, but still didn't get any solution when I explained that to the google customer service. It was clear to me that is not worth wasting a penny there.