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Sony is deleting 551 movies and TV shows you bought on PlayStation, because you don't really own your digital purchases— John Wick, Paddington, and Terminator 2 are among the titles–no refunds offered (www.playstation.com)
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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Jesus fucking Christ, what a read. It really was the wild west days back then, huh? Sony was out there just putting straight up malware on audio CDs.

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

And thought nobody would catch them. And thought they could BS their way out of it when they were caught.

Yep.