In this case, piracy may be a necessary evil for watching the lost content.

Edit: apparently, I struck a nerve with this toot.

it should be illegal, punishable by a painful death. If you call it a purchase, your button says "buy" or anything of that sort, it shouldn't matter what your licenses say - those mean something to users.

If you want to do this, you need to say Your Rental, Rent Now, etc.

nous sommes vraiment désolés mais, suite aux arrangements que nous avons passés avec d'autres que vous, vous ne serez plus en mesure d'entrer dans la maison que vous avez achetée. On vous remercie pour votre soutien inconditionnel. Bisou.

(Par contre, vous continuerez à payer les impôts de la maison vu que vous en êtes l'heureux propriétaire. Faut pas déconner non plus hein.)

Like everyone else says. Purchase movies and tv shows digitally, you're still stuck with it and can't do anything else with it. Purchasing a blu-ray disc or dvd is the way better option if applicable.

Edit: It also sucks because even if you purchase it digitally, you can't watch it if there are licensing issues or gets removed from a platform.

Playstation did the same thing to me way back with movies I had purchased directly from them.

With modern consoles you don't "own" anything, you're just renting a license to content for as long as they feel like making it available.

This should be classified as theft and be prosecuted as illegal, because it's literally the same as if Sony were to steal peoples' BluRay discs from their homes!

I consider it a moral obligation for any affected customer to demand not only theor money back but a DRM-free copy on top of that.

Shit like this is why people pirate, because honest consumer buying get shaftedbEVERY SINGLE TIME!

#PiracyIsntTheftIfBuyingIsntOwning

I'm fairly confident that in the EU, and still AFAIK in the UK, this wouldn't be legal. In the UK this is the Unfair Contract Terms Act. The EU legislation is linked below. The schedule of unfair term includes

(d) permitting the supplier to retain sums paid where the latter decides not to perform the contract, without providing for compensation of an equivalent amount from the supplier where the latter is the party cancelling the contract;

eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten…

Digital media aside, it is the Refund point that is the stickler here.

If indeed Discovery pulled the rug on Sony in turn, what Sony should do is 1. Write a more in debt explanation of what happened and of course 2. Immediately refund the purchases.

> We sincerely thank you for your continued support

That continued support is why no one has any option to move on and support anything else, while they continue robbing you (anyone wants to argue it's not?) without as much as an apology.

"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy"

I think this is something that should go to court, just because their TOS says XYZ doesn't make it legally binding. I really think this idea of one time rental fees is bogus, if you pay once for it then it's a product, if you have to pay an ongoing fee then, and only then, is it a service that they have a right to cancel.