If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing
Piracy is copyright infringement. That’s different from larceny.
In no world is piracy ever stealing.
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Thanks to Sony for showing us why digital piracy is necessary and justified.
Buy Blu-ray’s and DVD’s.
… From Goodwill or checking them out from the library right?
Sony pulled Linux from the PS3.
They’ve also pulled similar stuff on phones and other gadgets.
They lost my trust and I won’t buy anything from them again.
Same here, ever since this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
lol yeah I was gonna say I think it was the time they put a fucking virus on my computer
… and so do I.
Jesus fucking Christ, what a read. It really was the wild west days back then, huh? Sony was out there just putting straight up malware on audio CDs.
And thought nobody would catch them. And thought they could BS their way out of it when they were caught.
Yep.
I don’t even sail the high seas these days, but objectively it’s the morally right thing to do. They’re straight-up stealing from people and giving them nothing in return. So please pirate anything and everything Sony!
I’m doing my part.
How can a company even legally give you a “license to view something” like that without advertising it as "until we randomly decide to take it down. It shouldn’t be legal. They should have to say what the contract is for all the things they sell licenses for.
"From September 1, 2026, due to our content licensing agreements, you will no longer be able to access your previously purchased content from Studio Canal, and it will be removed from your video library.
Fuck
Thankyou,PlayStation Store"
Fixed it for you.
I have a friend that works in the film industry. He’s real talented, and has trouble finding work. So sometimes I feel a pang of regret, pirating stuff. Then I see bullshit like this, and it helps me know that I’m doing the right thing. When technofascists get so mad about people being against them, that they turn the internet off, I’ll be sitting pretty with my external hard drive stuffed to the brim with all sorts of awesome stuff to watch.
If i buy digitial i should reserve the right to download and retain that item in a digital format
Rrrr matey. Thats why all my digital purchases are accompanied by me grabbing a copy I can keep when the Enshitification hits the fan.
Didn’t they do this once before several years ago? Or maybe that was Amazon. In any case, if you don’t own what you pay for, then taking it without paying can’t be wrong.
No it still was Sony. At the time they said "sorry won’t happen again 😉 " and we all believed them
It happens periodically with any digital store because that’s the risk with being leased content from a digitial storefront. They may, due to licensing issues, remove content or the store may shutdown preventing you from accessing your content.
I wasn’t planning on torrenting those movies but I think I’ll do it now out of spite.
No they didn’t. You just need to download an app called qbittorrent, click the search tab, type the movie name then double click the one at the top with the highest number of ‘seeders’. Shortly thereafter the movie will be safely on your computer.
do i need to use a VPN or anything?
It’s safer technically, depending on west county
Personally I wouldn’t feel guilty about it though, you can prove you already paid for the movie.
That’s all I want to do
If I paid for it either on disc or something like Amazon I would like to DL a copy I can keep
I’m not trying to download the summer blockbuster currently at the movies or anything. I’m not trying to just download a million movies and have a massive collection I never watch. I just want backups of the films I already paid for
Which is a small handful of films I bought so I could one day watch them with my kid when they’re a bit older
Sony being Sony since at least the 80s
