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Sony is facing a $7.9 billion lawsuit that could impact over 9 million players. They’ve been accused of deleting purchased movies, TV shows, and games—items customers thought they owned forever.

This lawsuit, filed by consumer advocate Alex Neill, challenges Sony’s alleged abuse of its dominant position, charging high prices and restricting competition on the PlayStation Store.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 32 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Fun thing, even a DVD or Blu-ray is technically licensed by them, and they claim they have the right to revoke it whenever they want. In the case of Blu-ray they have tried to do this via "updates" to the Blu-ray players

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I remember complaining on Amazon about the price of digital books when they were still relatively new. They wanted me to pay the same price for a digital book as a physical book. Back then, Amazon still had pretty decent customer service and wrote me back saying that the price for the book wasn't for literal pages but for the work in making the book, etc. etc.

I told them I understood that but I don't get the same rights with the digital book as I did with the physical, namely the right to sell the book.

Books, board games, etc. any physical media is technically a license, yes. BUT the copyright holder cannot bar you from doing whatever you want with the physical copy, within the limits of copyright law. Those same rights simply do not exist with your digital copies and, in fact, is often codified within your terms of service that you don't fucking own anything and they can pull your license at any time.

DVD is next to impossible to revoke while Blu-ray is not. But you can't revoke Blu-ray licenses to specific people but to regions. I haven't heard of this happening but if it did, you could, in theory, still play your Blu-ray disks on players that aren't connected to the internet to receive those updates. That said, I'm like 80% sure that Blu-ray keys have been leaked and you can rip them like DVDs today.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I am not saying you can or you can't, but if you could, and I'm not saying you can, I would have full DRM-free backups of every Blu-ray I own.

[–] Bookmeat@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying they would or they wouldn't, but if they would, and I'm not saying they would, they would distribute the keys to the Blu-ray players online so other people could use their rightfully purchased discs in any way they pleased on their own hardware.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 4 points 7 months ago

I'm not saying you you should or shouldn't, but if you did, I've heard it's possible to access a backup of the original even if you don't have an original disc.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

I am not saying you can or you can’t, but if you could, and I’m not saying you can, download basically any ebook or audiobook you want from "mouse torrent site". It's a private tracker, so you do have to apply for membership, but it's the best place on the net for books.

I grab audiobooks from there, then pipe them straight from qBittorrent into an Audiobookshelf server so me, my family, and my friends can stream them to any device.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sony owns Blu Ray tech but not DVD. DVD was industry consortium to prevent a repeat of the VHS and betamax war. Only lasted a generation unfortunately.

[–] keyez@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

BRB I have a blu ray player from 2017 I'm disconnecting from the internet