Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of People Who 'Bought' Them

Re:Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of Peo... by bogometer on Thursday July 16, 2026 @10:08AM (#48934837)

if you cant hold it your hands, you don't own it. used dvd and bluray on ebay are cheaper anyway. another underutilized resource - the public library - mine has a huge catalog of movies you can borrow for free.

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Re:Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of Peo... by teroshan on Thursday July 16, 2026 @10:54AM (#48935451)

> another underutilized resource - the public library

As an indication of where things are going on this front, from the same publisher: Sony announced that games are not going to get distributed as physical copies anymore. So no new video games to be borrowed from public libraries, and even if you can borrow older games the new Playstations probably won't even have a disk tray to read them.

Whatever your stance on video games being something that is worth having in a library is, if they could get away with it that's probably their ideal end game for movies as well.

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Re:Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of Peo... by inigyou on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:04PM (#48936406)

Time for libraries to start carrying hard drives full of pirated copies, I guess.

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Re:Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of Peo... by cliglot on Thursday July 16, 2026 @10:17AM (#48934936)

Sadly mine has awful, inconvenient hours because it became the local fight club for teenagers.

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Re:Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of Peo... by qingcharles on Thursday July 16, 2026 @10:56AM (#48935478)

Depending on your library, you might be able to stream the same movies online for free. Check their web site.

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Re:Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of Peo... by naravara on Thursday July 16, 2026 @10:31AM (#48935125)

If you can hold it in your hands you still might not necessarily own it. Remember DivX? (The medium, not the codec).

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Re:Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of Peo... by ssl-3 on Thursday July 16, 2026 @11:48AM (#48936174)

Remember Meraki?

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Re:Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of Peo... by bellowsgulch on Thursday July 16, 2026 @03:29PM (#48939137)

If someone can take it away from you after you've paid for it.*

Physically holding things in the digital age, where someone can remotely change your software, or render it unusable, isn't true ownership.

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