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When we went to our seats, the wait staff let us know that despite the fact that the previews were playing, we wouldn’t know until the movie actually started whether we could see the film or not. If it didn’t work, the screen would just turn black. Luckily, the film went through without a hitch.

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[-] ByroTriz@lemmy.ml 253 points 11 months ago

The marvels of intellectual property

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 181 points 11 months ago

Remember when they started infecting people's computers with rootkits?

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 75 points 11 months ago

I've avoided Sony products as best I can since then. I'm probably not aware of the full suite of Sony-owned brands and companies, but rootkit made it so I haven't had a piece of Sony branded merchandise in almost 20 years.

[-] explodicle@local106.com 24 points 11 months ago

Same here! It's absolutely bonkers to me that everyone was just OK with that.

[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

My wf-xm4 earphones have battery problems and sony won't do any about it. it's a known problem, so I went out and got a sony es receiver, that has a known hissing problem and they won't do anything about it. Maybe ill learn someday.

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Oh fuck I’d forgotten about that.

I knew I hated Sony, but I’d totally forgotten about that.

[-] JDubbleu@programming.dev 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hilariously enough, even at the theater, you'd get a better experience pirating the movie. Y'know, cause you'd ACTUALLY GET TO WATCH THE MOVIE AT ALL. Proving yet again piracy is a service problem.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

You could probably only find CAMS for in theater movies anyways.

And a CAM is arguably worse than nothing

[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

capitalist efficiency at its very best

Death to America

[-] shadow 8 points 11 months ago

Sony is a Japanese corporation

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's 2Password2Remember, they sign off every comment that way. It's surprisingly relevant a lot of the time, though: America has had an almost unrivaled hand in shaping the economic landscape of Japan, from the San Francisco Treaty to the Plaza Accords

[-] booty@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

Japan is an American corporation

You joke, but Japan hasn't even been allowed to have their own military since WWII. They barely are a separate nation.

[-] axont@hexbear.net -1 points 11 months ago

"Death to America" is like our version of "and peace be with you." It's a nice phrase to say at the end of every statement.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net -1 points 11 months ago

Death to America to you as well

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