If they had a reason to. Those mediums came about due to media companies trying to cut costs, and each form of physical media had larger capacity for storage. Things shifts when said forms became cheaper to produce, and thus became the main method or distribution.

Terms of service can be contested in court if they’re anti-consumer. Removing content that customers have directly purchased seems pretty anti-consumer.

Because, every single person who bought anything digitally agreed in the terms of service that they would not bring Sony or any other party involved to court, and would resolve it all in binding arbitration. Binding arbitration wear, believe it or not, Sony gets to choose the judge. A class action cannot be brought…

It’s probably in the terms of service. And as long as they’re not super *blatantly* illegal, courts generally uphold those, even when they’re ridiculous.

I don’t want to live in a world where I love Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs so much that I need to buy the series (physical or digital) just so I could watch it when whenever I want because the endless marathons on Discovery for both series over the years couldn’t scratch that itch. And don’t get me wrong, I love…

revoking a license to distribute is one thing, but that doesn’t mean that what is already distributed needs to be revoked as well. It simply means that further distribution can no longer take place. 

When Sony signs contracts for licensed content, it’s their responsibility to ensure that their customers are protected should the license expire or get pulled. They need to specifically stipulate that customers will still be able to access the content they paid for.

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’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.

Something something high seas, something something torrent.

“Like cave people barking at the obelisk in 2001: A Space Odyssey, players often have no recourse but to speculate wildly about why the game in front of them ended up that way.”

There never was any mention of an origin of Pyramid Head/Red Pyramid. That was clearly two different things.

That’s not true across the board. Sure, sales of Call of Duty titles have consistently gone up, but Halo, for example, has never topped Halo 3's sales of 14 million copies*. Hell, no Halo game since 3 has even hit 10 million. That includes Reach and Master Chief Collection. Obviously, Infinite is a little harder to…

I happily paid $90 for Final Fantasy 3 (FFVI) and another $90 for Chrono Trigger. Both worth every penny!

I paid more than $60 for SNES games on release, and that was in 90s money. If you take inflation into account, game prices have dropped by half over the last 30 years.

And this is such a tired rebuttal.

The influx of new purchasers alone is so much exponentially higher than it was in the 60-dollar era. Personally I wait a year or two, since FOMO has no power over me in my 40's. Then I snag a copy for a quarter the cost.

Exactly.

Now, if we want to discuss the quality of some of these games at that price point, that’s a different matter. Same goes for DLC, in-game stores, ect...

Cat is already out of the bag on this stuff.

It’s too late.

The advancement of AI will always far outpace the advancement of AI detection and regulation.

The solution was to build in a type of virtual watermark into AI itself that, while invisible to the end user, could have been used to identify the output as AI…

Those of us who believe we are living in a simulated reality should mark all our videos as AI created.

I had to deal with a friend, who for almost a full month was convienced that the three recent presidents are racist, idiots who talk nasty things over discord while playing Minecraft, all because there’s audio recordings of their discord chatter.
I swear some people are just that gulliable.