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Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by flop_leash_973 to c/technology

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I think I'm alone with that on here but I don't really like buying physical media. I get that that way you own it but it's still just a storage medium with data on it, putting that data directly on my hard drive achieves basically the same thing. Since I can pirate basically anything anyway, I just think that even if a company takes away my access to something digital I bought, I can always just pirate it and I have it again. To me, physical discs are kind of a waste of money, space and resources because of that. I don't have it anything against people who buy physical media tho, I do get the point of that.

[–] xantoxis 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Same, and I've already had to do this. Google started revoking things I "bought". When they announced it I immediately went into Google Play, made a list of everything I "bought", and pirated it onto my home media server.

It's mine, and it's on "physical media", which I call an SD drive in a NAS.

I don't need or want optical disks of things--they are subject to rot, more so than my NAS, and they are far far more fragile than the NAS+the backups. They take up space and collect dust. If I wanted cover art, I'd own the art and have it on my wall.

You can truly own things, and you don't have to have plastic covers on a shelf to do that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I actually like that thinking, haven't thought of it that way. Should the day come when Sony decides to kill all digital copies of games people have collected over the years, who's stopping them from just jailbreaking/rooting/cracking/CFW-ing their console to just download the games they want from dedicated communities who have dumped those games on the internet ages ago?

I did the same thing with my 3DS when the eShop was officially closed, and now I can't imagine a 3DS without access to anything I could want on there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I think I’m alone with that on here but I don’t really like buying physical media.

I suppose it depend on what you buy. Some things are worth to have the physical copy, some not.