PlayStation U-turns on removal of Discovery content people had paid for - eviltoast

Sony has said it will no longer delete Discovery content from PlayStation libraries following fan backlash. In a statem…

  • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    There’s a huge difference though with physical media. Yeah, you don’t own the movie, but you own the DVD that it’s stored on. They’re not going to come into your house and take the DVD back. Once you have it, it’s yours forever. When you “buy” something hosted on a corporate server, you can lose it if they don’t want to host it anymore, as evidenced by this Sony thing, or if they go out of business.