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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    10 months ago

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

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        10 months 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.

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      10 months ago

      The irony is that I feel like I own my pirated content more than any of the digital content I’ve actually purchased in the past.

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        10 months ago

        Feel? Without question you have ownership in a way legal distributors no longer allow for. Physical media aside of course, but even that has a hassle to it that pirated content circumvents.

        There is simply no downside to having a collection of movies, tv shows and music on your HDD that no one can take away and plays in any modern operating system hassle free.

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          10 months ago

          No, you guys are missing the point. If you want to own something buy Blu-ray’s, piracy isn’t justifiable just because you don’t want to buy it.

          You don’t have to justify piracy like you idiots always tries to do. Who cares?

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            10 months ago

            Calling people idiots doesn’t make you right, and trying to make a different point doesn’t show that you understood the original point—quite the opposite.

            The point is that if a company can choose not to honor its legal obligation to consumers who have purchased content from them, then there is no reason for consumers to honor their legal obligation to refrain from accessing the same content outside the system the company has provided—or in this case failed to provide.

            Moreover, if the legal system of your country doesn’t require everyone to uphold their legal obligations, then why should we allow it to hold us to the obligations it has placed on us?

            Now you’ll probably write a reply that reply that shows no understanding of the difference between ownership and licensing, or between theft and unauthorized access, but you can’t say I didn’t try.

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              10 months ago

              The company did honor its legal obligations.

              Whenever it’s morally right is a different discussion.

              I don’t care about your point. I just think the constant attempts of justification are really annoying. Like it or not, I will continue to complain about that.

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                10 months ago

                Cool, keep on bootlicking big companies that underpay their workers and overcharge their customers.

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                  10 months ago

                  You guys are really cringe.

                  Why do you need to constantly justify piracy?

                  Just do it. I have hundreds of movies on my media server and dozens of series. Yet I don’t feel the need to complain and whine about something that doesn’t affect me.

                  Keep on crying.

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              10 months ago

              Because buying Blu-ray’s is owning?

              Personally I just pirate everything on my Plex server but don’t pretend that this Sony news makes piracy justified.

    • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website
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      10 months ago

      The content you bought is available to be streamed on Discovery Plus, for a small subscription fee.

      Just buy your content again, that’s fair right? You wouldn’t expect a perpetual license for the cash you parted with, that would be crazy!

      • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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        10 months ago

        I don’t have a house big enough to store a ton of DVDs, and the Playstation Digital Edition solidified that we don’t have to buy physical media anymore. So the only option is piracy.