Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED!

If the content is not stored locally and DRM free, then you don't own it. Don't pay for content that you can't own. 🏴‍☠️

Sony understands only one language... MONEY. I stopped buying their products since they installed a root kit decades ago in my computer to prevent it from ripping my legally bought CDs to my computer. I had to reinstall windows to get rid of that virus. Never again! And all my electronics were Sony back then

What I love about this whole thing is that it's not just Sony's fault but they're getting all the blame because WB would pull all their future content if Sony bad-mouthed them.

They've done this to me. When it first came out,I bought the fallout 4 DLCs. I cleared my email one time and deleted all those old purchase receipts.

One day last year, I pop in fallout 4 and go to my file, and it says that I don't have the dlc that corresponds to this save file. I know I bought them, so I go to the psn to redownload, but it's asking me to pay. Long story short, I call Sony, my dlc purchase vanished at some point, and since I deleted the receipt, Sony refused to give me the content or money. They say I can't prove I owned it, even though my files say so.

Reminder that the largest brands regularly and shamelessly steal from small independent artists to sell for profit, knowing that the artists don't have the resources to do anything about it: https://web.archive.org/web/20230726050616/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/arts/design/digital-art-copyright-marvel-panini-wizards.html

And these are the companies trying to convince you that pirating big name media for your own personal use is theft.

I'm just shocked how many commenters here somehow seem to think that Sony can choose for their own profit to engage in contracts with mismatched responsabilities - i.e. a short-term contract with WB right next to a much longer term responsability towards retail customer - and not be financially responsible towards their retail customers at one end for the losses that arose from the termination of the very Contract Sony chose to sign at the opposite end.

Imagine if you hire somebody to build you a garden shed and they paid some fly-by-night company for the wood because they were cheaper and that company just to took off with the money. You think they could just legally turn to you, their customer, and say "sorry, we chose some fishy guys for the wood for your shed and they took the money and didnt gave us the wood, so now we'll keep your money and you're not going to get your shed. Bye bye!".

Contract Law isolates Contractual responsabilities in any one contract (including the implied contract of a Retail Sale) to the parties in that contract alone exactly because long term contractual commitments would be de facto impossible in a world were every purchaser also ran risks on every one of their supplier's own contracts as purchasers, in turn having the risks of their suppliers' suppliers' and so on as deep as the chain went.

Kinda slightly sensationalist title but yep...

We are having a good discussion about this in AskLemmy: https://lemmy.nz/post/3983363

"What is the legal difference between owning digital and physical media?"

As a side note, how are we going with instance agnostic post IDs? I can only post a link that uses my home instance, but obviously most of you won't be on lemmy.nz and will have to do some fuckery to open that in your home instance if you want to be able to comment.

Sony is one of the vilest corporations out there.

Fuckers literally installed rootkits on customers' computers (across the board, you listen to a CD on your computer- bam) to police DRM.

Check "Sony Rootkit Scandal", they got caught and were sued... yet here we are. Again.

Since we're sharing YouTube videos around, I suggest this video by Jeff Geerling about how to legally own and stream media (Piped link)

If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing.

I’m not saying this isn’t wrong, because I believe it is, but the fact is that if you digitally own anything from video games to music to movies you should understand that it can be taken from you without a moment’s notice. Is it right? Hell no! Will it continue to happen? Hell yes!

One thing I've not seen discussed, is this actually Sony's fault or are they not behest to the companies that hold the content rights to do this?

I've not looked into it much beyond comments so I don't have the answer myself.

Shout out to Streamio + real-debrid + torrentio! 🖤🏴‍☠️

An Odysee link in the wild! Awesome! Lol

That's why streaming is the new cable TV.

The problem here is people didn't buy content. They've bought a license to view content and somewhere in the smallprint is Sony's right to revoke the right whenever they like for whatever reason. Other services have done likewise, either withdrawing content or just failing altogether.

So first off, as a consumer stop buying DRM'd shit because it won't end well under any circumstances. Second, lobby for digital property to have rights akin to physical property so the right to destroy, lend, sell, or donate it is inherent to a purchase. e.g. maybe a purchase gives you a token and a signed / watermarked file in a playable format. And incentivize providers to sell digital property by taxing services that impose DRM to create a favourable price disparity.

Ok then, I'm gonna start stealing Spiderman 2 and sell it to people for, like, $20, and not take it back.

Can't everyone just get a refund on everything they're taking down?