PlayStation Will Not Delete Discovery TV Shows After All - Slashdot

PlayStation Will Not Delete Discovery TV Shows After All

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• Re: Still not owned

  This kind of thing, that "buying" is not a perpetual licence, should not be in the fine print, but in the wording of the offer. They should use another word instead of "buying" if a license is not perpetual.

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    The text of the agreement that no one ever reads, makes it quite clear that you are not buying the video-- a phrasing that goes back to the VHS and CD days. Just because I buy the VHS tapes of Star Wars, that doesn't mean I own Star Wars. I have purchased media, which contains the movie(s), and the right to watch those movies in the privacy of my own home.

    What's changed is that you no longer own the media. Someone else does, and you have limited rights to view their media., with heavy restrictions on wha

    • by Calydor ( 739835 ) on Friday December 22, 2023 @11:44AM (#64099055)

      When you bought the media you still had 100% control of it until physical degradation made it unwatchable, in the same way you don't expect a hammer to last forever despite buying it. If the hammer breaks it breaks, tough luck. Same with a VHS tape. This, however, is someone else making a decision that your ownership has ended. That's the difference.

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      Yeah it's the license. The same principle the RIAA used to tell people they could back up their music, but if their CD's got stolen from their cars/homes, they were obligated to delete the "backups" from their computers after ripping.

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    Or the license should be with the content not the provider. Ie. if you purchase the rights to view a season of a Discovery show it's registered with Discovery so regardless of the platform you're on you can watch that season. And as the show is licensed to different networks your privileges follow OR if Discovery is sold that is part of the contract.

    Blockchain.

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  This still doesn't mean that people own the stuff they have bought. Have they updated their storefront to emphasize that these are rentals?

  Yeah, the problem is only kicked down the road a couple of years.

  But the thing is, Playstation stopped selling TV shows and movies way back in 2018 or so. Funny thing is, they already deleted a bunch of stuff - they issued a similar notice about Studio Ghibli stuff being removed in 2021 but it appears no one noticed they all got deleted.

  And technically, Sony has prohibit