Sony says Mythbusters and more Discovery TV shows are going away whether you bought them or not

PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For::Sony says Mythbusters and more Discovery TV shows are going away whether you bought them or not

  • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    You own it as long as they have a license to host and stream it.

    They should be offering refunds for this at least, but you literally cannot own something that permanently lives on someone else’s device.

    If you want to truly on something, you need to control physical access to it. If there is an option to download the media when you buy it, and you can store it on your own device, then you own it. If not, then you only have access as long as you’re paying someone else for access to their storage.

    • ugh@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Which is almost impossible now. You can’t even play offline games without internet access because companies force you to use their app to launch it.

      I thought I would be able to get around that system with EA by purchasing a hard copy of the game circa 2016, but nope, I just bought a plastic case to throw away. I miss the old days of owning things.