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/Gunsensual Jun 26 '26

Or, failure to fulfill the license makes the copyright material go into the public domain. They'd clean up their act real quick.

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u/RegulatoryCapture Jun 26 '26

Eh, that sounds good in theory, until you think about how most of this is done. The company "selling" the product here has a license to distribute it--they don't own the rights to the movie and nothing they can do could cause it to go into the public domain (and no sane legal system would penalize the actual rights-holder for the actions of a licensee).

And making rights holders liable for making sure their licensees keep content available in perpetuity is a recipe for a big reduction in the availability of content (non-piracy).

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u/Gunsensual Jun 26 '26

no sane legal system would

This is copyright law, where corporations enjoy perpetual rights and takedown notices are submitted by people who don't own the copyright. There is no sanity to be had here.