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Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Ninjazzon@infosec.pub to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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How long is “forever”? When it comes to digital media, forever could be as close as a couple of months away.

Funimation, a Sony-owned streaming service for anime, recently announced that subscribers' digital libraries on the platform will be unavailable after April 2. For years, Funimation had been telling subscribers that they could keep streaming these digital copies of purchased movies and shows, but qualifying it: “forever, but there are some restrictions.”

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

if just annoys me so much that they did away with dvds and blurays - which offered infinitely more value to streaming because of the added bonus features and the fact that you owned it - and then raised streaming prices even though they didn't have to spend as much making the physical media anymore.

[–] kryllic@programming.dev 9 points 9 months ago

Plus the DRM on blu-rays is just asinine. It's getting harder and harder to actually own digital wares