▲ 172 ▼ Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” (arstechnica.com) submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world 18 comments fedilink hide all child comments Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”::Casualties afoot as Sony merges Funimation with 2021-acquired Crunchyroll.
[–] jojo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 2 years ago (3 children) If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago Amen. Fuck the system. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago Amen. Fuck the system. permalink fedilink source parent