That accent in Con Air was soaked in molasses and char-grilled over a mesquite fire.  

One word:

they both suck

It’s Sony’s store and any time a game got pulled because of a publisher or a license issue people who previously bought those gsmes are still able to re-download them. So even though Discovery is also at fault it’s on Sony for not keeping the files available on their servers or giving refunds.

As always, there’s an xkcd for everything.

Piracy rules. Pirates are literally better curators of content than any of the companies that actually own it. Streaming is just renting. I feel bad for people who have built up paid digital libraries.

Torrenting can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning.

Contracts don't make them immune to legal action. It just makes things more complicated 

Because the contract says Sony can do exactly what they’re doing?

I was gonna say how many people actually bought this content, obviously there are affected consumers, but for real, who’s actually buying these shows?

I never stopped collecting those.  I’m glad people are finally starting to realize that physical media isn’t as irrelevant as most people think, though.  

Or buy it physical in the first place and rip it to something like Plex for the sake of convenience.

The myth of digital media is that it can last forever, pristine and undisturbed.

I’ll just outright say it: you’re trying to say piracy. If you buy something digitally, it seems like you should be justified in retaining a backup copy for this very reason.

Yup. I mean, partly 4k streaming is worse than regular 1080p bluray disks, due to bitrate restrictions, and 4k blurays are just legions better, but more importantly, companies are just terrible at dealing with their digital libraries. I’ve been swooping in on essentially every cheap 4k sale to make sure I’m not losing…

Something something high seas, something something torrent.

I bet they will be. Its a classic class action suit and I don’t see how you couldn’t win.

Yeah, the mass digitization of media gives corporations a lot more control of things you believe you owned. This is just a small example of anti-consumerism.

They really should be taken to court for this. Licenses expiring is a common thing in digital distribution. The solution is to pull the licensed content from the store, not user libraries. That’s been the standard practice for games, I don’t see why it should be any different for movies or TV shows.

This is one of the many reasons I’ve started collecting blu-rays and 4k discs in 2023.