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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[–] 61 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 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.

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