PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts, Reminding Us Nothing Digital Is Ever Truly Ours
2026-06-27 00:08 UTC
Replies (8)
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@the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 2026-06-27 03:35
Laughs in jellyfin
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@Auster@thebrainbin.org 2026-06-27 06:23
"Nothing digital is ever truly ours": DRM-free and contractual recognition of ownership though?
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@Redkey@programming.dev 2026-06-27 02:40
It's 2026 and people are still falsely conflating digital with suspect and physical with safe. We live in a world where plenty of commercial software that comes "on a disk" is unuseable without constant approval from the publisher, and plenty of "digital download" software can be downloaded once and then used and reinstalled forever without needing to ask for anyone's permission. I understand the confusion. For a long time, you got an item on physical media, and no-one could take it away from you. Then downloads and cloud services became popular, and at the same time this crap started happening. But not everyone's trying to screw us with downloads, and the people who are, are doing their damndest to screw us via physical media as well. The issue isn't digital vs. physical, it's own vs. lease.
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@ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2026-06-27 00:19
Plenty will take this as an excuse to pirate, and I understand completely. I think it sends a stronger signal to spend your money where you actually get to own stuff. In this case, in a world where there is no DRM-free movie/TV show store, that means buying the discs. And for what it's worth, having recently gone back to Blu Rays, it's been a nice reminder of how much better the quality is off of the disc compared to the compressed image they send you.
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@7112@lemmy.world 2026-06-27 00:16
Nothing on a digital service. Digital copies are a great way to have backups. Just don't store your media with a third party.
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@kurmudgeon@lemmy.world 2026-06-27 01:33
I haven't seen Sony make one goddamn good decision in the past month or more. This company is so fucked. When was the last time it stocks actually went up in value?
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@Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 2026-06-27 07:12
You can never trust any streaming platforms to always have everything up too.
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@mister_universe@lemmy.zip 2026-06-27 08:23
That’s why I always buy physical copy when possible.