As always, the paying user has the worst experience. "Purchase" a show, can only watch on a certain console of a certain brand, no transfers, no backups, then it suddenly disappears from the library and nothing can be done.

If media companies insist on draconian DRM, then they should pay for full refunds to their loyal customers when one day they decide to delist that specific show.

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[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

sony is going to steal

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Scrolling through the list I can't believe that people actually watch that shit, let alone pay for it.

It's all the kind of crap that people leave used to leave on in the background and to get bombarded with 4 sets of adverts an hour. The direct result of needing to fill 200 channels as cheaply as possible.

Refunding everyone would probably cost Sony less than a million. I'd wager some of those shows nobody has ever purchased.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Deadly Dentists didn't get good until season 2 anyway.

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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Some series have a weird pattern of deletion.

LA Ink | Season 1

LA Ink | Season 6

LA Ink | Season 7

Lolwut. Does it mean 2-5 are still availiable or they never were?

It's all Discovery Channel's properties, and it's a good day to rewatch their classics and seed them.

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Sony kind of has their hands tied on this one. The shows they’re delisting (or are not able to relicense) kind of get to take their IP off of the system, no?

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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

This has actually always been my reason for piracy. I've always been able to afford games, thankfully, so I've used piracy as a means of demoing games as demos became more and more rare and more commonly and more importantly I've used piracy as a means of preserving games. I have no problems paying for a game if I can also keep it indefinitely and play it forever, and thanks to piracy that is actually possible.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago

On the one hand, I sympathize with anyone losing access to How It's Made and Mythbusters. But for everything else on that list, that money was already thrown away for no good reason. I'd like to hope the audiences were small or non-existent to begin with.

Sony is doing the world a favor by purging most of that garbage from their service, to be perfectly honest.

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Did anyone actually read the link? Everyone in the thread is talking like they pulled video games. They literally only pulled Disney TV content from like 20 years ago. Now of course that's still crappy but stuff like this has happened for TV content before and it won't be the last time this happens.

We can freak out when they actually do this to video games and not some 20 year old awful reality TV content no one watched anyway.

[–] Chinzon@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

The point is if they do it for this there is no reason they wouldn't do it to other forms of media. Youre either introducing a strawman argument or missing the point

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