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Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”::Casualties afoot as Sony merges Funimation with 2021-acquired Crunchyroll.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing

[–] dual_sport_dork 17 points 11 months ago

And the Zoomers all go, "lol y u got all those things on disk graddad? nobody does that anymore get with it."

Yeah, okay. Sure.

But I'll tell you what, I put my Steamline Pictures dub Laserdisc of Castle of Cagliostro in the machine, or whatever the hell, and it just plays. Every time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

But if you sell me something and then forcefully take it back, that actually is stealing. It will never happen because somewhere in the TOS they had wiggled in a clause to invalidate it, but morally Sony owes the users a refund for everything they are taking back.

[–] T156 2 points 11 months ago

Although the weaselling that tends to happen with digital content like this is that you didn't buy the content. You simply bought a licence to view the content from that service, and if the service cannot provide the content, that's your problem to deal with.