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"We have done many, many posts explaining how, unfortunately, it seems the idea
of a person owning the things they’ve bought has become rather passe. While in
the age of antiquity, which existed entire tens of years ago, you used to be
able to own things, these days you merely license them under Ts and Cs that are
either largely ignored and clicked through or that are indecipherable, written
in the otherwise lost language known as “Lawyer-ese”. The end result is a
public that buys things, thinks they retain ownership over them, only to find
out that the provider of the things alters them, limits their use, or simply
erases them from being.
Take anyone who bought a movie distributed by StudioCanal in Germany and
Austria through Sony’s Playstation store, for instance. Sony previously had a
deal to make those movie titles available in its store, but declined to
continue offering movies and shows in 2021, stating that streaming services had
made the deal un-competitive.
Sony’s PlayStation group stopped offering movie and TV show purchases and
rentals, as of Aug. 31, 2021, citing the rise of streaming-video services.
At the time, Sony assured customers that they “can still access movie and TV
content they have purchased through PlayStation Store for on-demand playback
on their PS4, PS5 and mobile devices.
And when Sony said that, it apparently forgot to add two very important words
to its statement: “for now.” Instead, Sony decided to drop the bomb with yet
another statement regarding StudioCanal content in Germany and Austria. It
essentially amounts to: hey fuckers, that shit you bought is about to
disappear, mmkay bye."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
