Sony is Sony is about to delete Mythbusters, Naked and Afraid, and tons of other Discovery shows from PlayStation users’ libraries even if they already “purchased” them.

So, if you bought a DVD licensed by Sony, can they now legally enter your house and take your DVD?

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

I’m just trying to reconcile how digital purchases can be subject to license terms changes, while a DVD apparently can’t be.

  • @ocassionallyaduck
    47•1 year ago

    Legally, you own a disc, and a limited license to view the contents of the disc.

    It’s effectively full ownership, but this same “limited license” model is how they fuck you over digitally, because without the disc, they can, at any time, revoke that limited license legally, because it was limited and they never granted full ownership. This is why the legality of pirating a movie you already own on Blu-ray is morally correct but legally wrong, because your license only grants you that one disc, in that one format.

    I fucking hate it. The fact we dont have better property laws for media and IP is insane.

    • ScrubblesEnglish
      22•1 year ago

      This is what I was looking for, thanks for clarifying. For the last 10 years my friends thought I was insane for continuing to purchase physical media. No more.

      OP I should also say there are some fan edits of Mythbusters out there that are frankly amazing. None of that “recap” stuff after every break, they don’t jump around. If you stumble on those they are well worth it

        • w00
          6•1 year ago

          They used to be on Reddit and were called smyths or something similar.