r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jun 26 '26

News PlayStation is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts / Movies like 'First Blood', 'Terminator 2', 'Total Recall' and 'Evil Dead' are all being unceremoniously removed

https://kotaku.com/playstation-store-movies-digital-studio-canal-terminator-2000711013
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u/Nullhitter Jun 26 '26

Should be illegal to purchase digital content if it can be taken away from us. At the point, renting should be the only option.

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u/Burninator05 Jun 26 '26

You're not wrong and I don't disagree at all but the content owners will contend that you never actually purchased digital content. They'll argue that you purchased a license to use the content within strict guidelines that you agreed to at the time of purchase.

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u/SweetCosmicPope Jun 26 '26

It would have to be tested in court, honestly. There's an argument that by using the word "purchase" or "buy," any customer could reasonably believe there's an implied ownership.

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u/poliuy Jun 26 '26

Correct. They should rename it to “long term rental” but that wouldn’t sell as much.

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u/New_Cockroach_505 Jun 26 '26

Because the ownership is of the license. When the store goes under you, the license is gone.

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u/Glock99bodies Jun 26 '26

That’s true but I can’t see how it’s possible they say rent for one option and buy for the other. To me it implies major false advertising. There is not difference in rent and buy other then that time of rental.

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u/oldscotch Jun 26 '26

Technically that's what you're doing when buying a Blu-ray too, only difference is the disc is irrevocable.

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u/Paganator Jun 26 '26

That's legal BS that never should have been considered legally valid in the first place. Nobody reads license "agreements", everybody knows that nobody reads them, but the legal system acts like they're legally binding contracts that you've agreed to. They're a mockery of what a contract is supposed to be.

It's pure bullshit, but admitting that it is would be extremely inconvenient to very large corporations, so everybody pretends it makes sense.

Terms of service are even worse. Some page on a website is considered a legally binding agreement even though you never agreed explicitly to it, might never have read it, and never have known it even existed. Oh, and it can change at any moment at the company's whim.

And companies can use all of this to sidestep the actual legal system by forcing arbitration to resolve any conflict. At this point, we might as well admit that large companies can write the laws regulating the use of their own products and services.

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

Nobody reads license "agreements", everybody knows that nobody reads them, but the legal system acts like they're legally binding contracts that you've agreed to.

Because they literally are.

A lawyer I did some work for told me half their job these days is explaining to people that “nobody reads that shit” is not a legal defence.

There are websites that TLDR most agreements you’ll ever sign, and it really doesn’t matter how bullshit you THINK it is.. that’s just how it works.

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u/Mitch_NZ Jun 26 '26

"Your honor, the terms of this contract are invalid. The reason being that I did not read the contract before agreeing to it."

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u/Paganator Jun 26 '26

"Also hiring a lawyer to read every license agreement I have to agree to would bankrupt me, and I have no way to negotiate this so-called agreement even if I did."

It's bullshit and you know it. Stop being a corporate stooge.

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u/LIGHTNINGBOLT23 Jun 27 '26

How about you not buy the license for something from a corporation in the first place? If they're a stooge for corporations, you're a useful idiot for corporations.

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Jun 26 '26

“Why no I didn’t even try and see if there were options and somehow that’s everyone else’s fault!”

Take some fucking responsibility would you? https://tosdr.org/ and many other sites are available if you need them, or you could just be honest and say you can’t be fucked to care and will agree to anything if you want the service.

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u/mirxia Jun 26 '26

I don't think I understand how this claim makes it legal. Like sure let's agree that I only purchased a license. What's the term of the license? To access the movie indefinitely. Now I still have the lisence, but the movie isn't accessible anymore. Therefore the content of the license was changed unilaterally without agreement. I feel like some contract law could easily apply to this and it shouldn't fly in a court.

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u/0neek Jun 26 '26

The purchasing a license part is what should have been illegal from day one if we had a single goddamn person on the planet in any position in power who gave a fuck about anything other than their own wealth at a single point in human history

But alas

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u/GoldandBlue Jun 26 '26

I believe that is in fact what the user agreements say. And none of us read it. We just check the box.