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PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For::Sony says Mythbusters and more Discovery TV shows are going away whether you bought them or not

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[โ€“] ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It bears repeating. Piracy is a service issue first. I've paid for several streaming services for music and video, but they just cannot compete with the convenience and features of self-hosted options. It's not at all unusual for people to pirate stuff they have legitimately paid for just because of the convenience More than once I have bought a an album on the very same day I downloaded a pirate copy, just because it was slightly easier to get it on all my devices that way.

While Gabe's famous line still holds true, I find that repeating it without qualification is increasingly glib, because vendors are making the matter a technology issue instead, thanks to years of investment in DRM techniques. In the long term, either side's ability to enforce its will on the other will come down to availability/control of compute resources, and unit economics.

Keeping corporate at bay is going to require a combination of maintaining the commons, seeing genuine competition in cultural production, improving consumer legal frameworks, and becoming politically conscious of our entitlement to digital rights.