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PlayStation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries | The change comes as Warner Bros. tries to add subscribers to Max, Discovery+ apps.::The change comes as Warner Bros. tries to add subscribers to Max, Discovery+ apps.
Im still trying to understand why this is legal. Is there more to the story that I’m missing?
Technically, when you buy a show or a movie you’re buying a license to watch it. That license can be revoked at any time. This is true for physical and digital copies, it’s just impossible for companies to revoke the license when you have a physical copy.
Not the same in the EU as far as I know. Digital goods have to uphold a certain standard.
Unfortunately we don’t all live in civilized places like the EU. Some of us live in “shithole countries,” like the United States.
Or the United kingdom. Which had the chance at being civilised, but decided to throw it all away.
“Countries” is a debatable term.
This might only affect US customers as these studios typically create separate licensing deals in each country. An example is when the new Star Trek shows began airing, everywhere in the world got to watch it on Netflix while US customers had to subscribe to CBS All Access (now Paramount+).
Now how is THIS legal? Wtf? So, basically you buy a car, pay it all of and the dealership can just come to your house and take it? This is basically the same. I paid for something to own. It should be mine forever.
I don’t know about cars, but John Deere tractors can be remotely disabled by the company.
They were “bragging” about this in the early days of the Ukraine war, saying that they were locking down tractors that Russians were trying to take out of Ukraine. But, the fact they can do that means that if they don’t like some random farmer in Iowa, they can also remotely disable his tractor too.
That’s actually very dangerous. They can fuck with our food supplies whenever they want to.
Yeah, but they have a good thing going, and wouldn’t want to risk it by doing something that will get laws changed.
It seems it is legal for cars https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/new-law-will-install-kill-switches-in-all-new-cars/ar-AASt1Th
And it’s already in use for some https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-the-repo-man-can-remotely-shut-off-your-car-engine/
You know the first of those links is right wing propaganda, right? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/infrastructure-bill-track-drivers/
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