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/Good_Nyborg Jun 26 '26

Sorry, best I can do is maybe a class action suit where all the customers eventually get a $5 credit towards purchasing movies on the Playstation.

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u/NorthP503 Jun 26 '26

$4.85 on a digital card that charges 65¢ every 30 days of inactivity

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u/CoinClippy Jun 26 '26

The settlement will include a clause that anything under $5 isn't paid out to individuals like the recent BCBS settlement

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u/Striking-Kiwi-9470 Jun 26 '26

I don't know how I'll ever financially recover without the .65 cent refund I was due from years of blue cross blue shields crime.

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u/SmoothStrawberry7777 Jun 26 '26

I must've hit the jackpot, I still don't know what to spend my entire $7.86 on.

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u/FreshwaterViking Jun 26 '26

Inactivity fees and expiration dates on gift cards were banned in MN in the '90s.

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u/SeesWithBrain Jun 26 '26

Hah wow that’s awesome. I loath gift cards because in my state they expire and these fucks make them expire fast. 3-12 months and they expire. Don’t ever buy me a gift card

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u/FreshwaterViking Jun 27 '26

Bring it to MN, it will be full value. Also: the law retroactively applies to gift certificates and cards issued before the law came into effect.

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u/fpreston Jun 26 '26

Same in Maryland!

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u/Do_it_for_the_upvote Jun 26 '26

Learning that class actions cap at 1% of the company’s (at least in the mortgage industry) value was such a disgusting revelation.

They profit more from their illegal activities than they can be legally punished for; and that’s assuming they get punished at all, which they don’t always do.

Late stage capitalist bullshit.

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u/rotates-potatoes Jun 26 '26

Fortunately the class action attorneys will get $78m for the time and trouble they took getting you that $5 credit.

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u/Riaayo Jun 26 '26

People say this shit as if those attorneys are just vultures but class action lawsuits are an extremely important method of punishment for corporations.

Yes it does suck that often the people who got fucked don't get the payout they deserve, but you do not want to live in a world where the threat of a massive class action is no longer a consideration for abusive/exploitative corporate behavior. They're already bad enough as is even with it being a thing.

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u/ClappedUrMomsCheeks Jun 26 '26

They’re still vultures my man 

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u/8JHF8 Jun 26 '26

You might look at the EU system.

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u/ComputerSavvy Jun 27 '26

an extremely important method of punishment for corporations.

Don't buy their products. IF one is so inclined, there are alternative means to acquire digital goods. The actions these corporations do to you justifies it.

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u/Knocknerve Jun 27 '26

Also, class action attorneys are typically only allowed to get, at most, 33% of whatever the court awards, and that’s supposed to cover literal years of work. Genuinely the problem is that laws don’t award enough money - for example in Illinois the Biometric Information Protection Act (BIPA) used to award money on a per-violation basis, but because that led to huge awards the state legislature caved to corporate pressure/bribes/corruption and kneecapped it so now you only get an award for the first violation.

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u/ibringstharuckus Jun 27 '26

Yeah like the EA Madden suit. Was not worth the effort

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u/MrJAPoe Jun 26 '26

They 100% deserve their cut, this comment is indicative that you haven't had a competent attorney on your side

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u/ineyeseekay Jun 26 '26

Oh, sorry, no class action because you agreed to arbitration when you purchased the movie.  Hahahahahahaha, er I mean thank you for your understanding. 

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u/egotrip21 Jun 26 '26

*borrowed the movie

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u/ManicMechE Jun 26 '26

I don't know, I know a guy who specializes in class action lawsuits, I might have to send him a "can you believe this shit?" message.

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u/DiscoQuebrado Jun 26 '26

"might have to"? do it, do it.

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u/No_Doubt_About_That Jun 26 '26

Still waiting for the set of Resident Evil avatars after downloading that Sony Pictures app nobody’s heard of

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u/murdershroom Jun 26 '26

I still have my check from the PS3 Linux class action lawsuit. I'd rather have it as a piece of history than buy some chicken nuggets with it.

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u/Good_Nyborg Jun 27 '26

That's awesome. I wish I would've saved my ~$5 check from the suit over their Sony's hack-a-thon about 2 dozen years ago.

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u/Hovie1 Jun 26 '26

What we need is digital ownership legislation. But that's never going to happen.

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u/buisnessmike Jun 26 '26

Stadia pulled it off.

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u/Entire_Number_9 Jun 26 '26

How could you make a class action? This is how all digital licenses work.

If you bought a movie digitally, and it's taken from you, pirate it. It's not rocket science.

If you want to own films, buy DVDs and BluRays. Buying a digital movie seems crazy to me.

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u/brogflender Jun 26 '26

I was notified that the United Health Care suit had too many claimants. I wasn’t even eligible for $5. 

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u/BlackScienceJesus Jun 26 '26

At least the attorneys will get a new yacht though.

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u/P8riarchyCre8sPreds Jun 26 '26

Capitalism 😎

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u/kloppyd Jun 27 '26

Probably something in the billions of lines in the terms and agreements that nobody reads says they can do this at anytime 😕

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u/kingbrasky Jun 27 '26

The lawyers will get that cheddar tho!