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Kinda slightly sensationalist title but yep...

We are having a good discussion about this in AskLemmy: https://lemmy.nz/post/3983363

"What is the legal difference between owning digital and physical media?"

As a side note, how are we going with instance agnostic post IDs? I can only post a link that uses my home instance, but obviously most of you won't be on lemmy.nz and will have to do some fuckery to open that in your home instance if you want to be able to comment.

Given the recent controversy, it calls into question the definition of the word 'buy.'

GOG is the only one that I know of too.

Oh shit, I had forgotten about that.

What wonderful changes do you think they are going to make?

What was the issue? My experience was the opposite.. I installed the app (android) and went to my IP, it works. I was surprised how simple and easy it was. Or were you trying to use it outside of your home LAN?

Easy there on the sound logical arguments buddy, you'll have the lawyers shitting their pants.

I'm leaving Plex for Jellyfin. It's free, and Plex has been pushing bloat for so long, I can't be bothered with it. It used to be great, just open Plex and there's your media. But now it's full of random streaming channels and shit. It takes multiple non-intuitive clicks to get to what I want. I tried Jellyfin and it's perfect, just like Plex used to be.

The only way to play Chronicles of Riddick (a really great game btw) is illegally by downloading it. I would happily pay money for the privilege, but there is no option for that.

If you're buying a license to stream 'until x time' then Sony should make that really fucking clear to the consumer.

It's both parties. The button says 'buy' not 'hire for N years until the contract runs out.'

The implied transaction for consumers was that they had 'purchased' a product and retained it indefinitely. If Sony can no longer uphold their end of the deal, then they should be refunding.

Check out bandcamp, its the better way to support artists

It's the perfect model. People only buy a DVD once, but this way you can keep them paying forever!

That makes sense, but then the next part is:

Or can Sony have some sort of DRM that prevents the DVD from playing when Sony loses the license agreement?

Surely that would still be a possibility?

Oh dam that sounds watchable!! I shall keep my eye-patch raised...

Same!

Wow.....

This is a whole new can of worms. Can neural networks be described in terms of brain waves??

What service do you use that lets you pay for and download the media files in that way?

The only one I know of is Bandcamp that lets you download the mp3s after you buy the album.

There is no “license” with a DVD.

But Sony had a license to produce and sell that DVD, right?

if there are any features that are live based they have full rights to deactivate those

Didn't know this one...

I don't have a house big enough to store a ton of DVDs, and the Playstation Digital Edition solidified that we don't have to buy physical media anymore. So the only option is piracy.

They just want us to pirate everything right? Like, that is the only logical response to this.