Any major streamable rental service has the ability to pull content from your account whenever they don’t renew the license to distribute it. Amazon, Microsoft, you name it. It’s not just Playstation doing it, so the heat shouldn’t be just on them. Always make backups of your content if you really want to retain them for a long time.
I'm not against streaming per se, but I do tend to buy DVDs as back ups, because they're so cheap and readily available. I don't particularly give a damn about resolution... a good television show in 480p is still a good television show.
I totally understand the outrage and in absolutely no way do I take Sonys side on this, paying is supposed to be ownership. However the terms of service cover them from head to toe, their terms define “buy” as the right to stream the show, not download it forever and have it available in perpetuity. Start voting with your wallets people, this isn’t the first time a company has done this and it is far from the last.
Not to mention just as much of the blame should be on Discovery, who’s pulling this kind of shit all over the place, including removing shoes from HBO that they own the licenses of.
Personally my long held belief is that things should become public domain and lose their copyright protection if after they’ve been released they’re not kept available at reasonable prices compared to similar products on the market
They should go in the public domain in a reasonable number of years like they were originally designed to, just like patents. Both served the purpose of protecting commercial use for a limited time to promote innovation. Patents still promotes, copyright stifles due to extending the duration to a ridiculous amount.
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