Sony is actually removing them from people’s machines, remotely. Look up DRM on Wikipedia.
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MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 1 week agoDo you have those movies saved on your local machine? Or are you accessing them on a remote server?
People here are supposed to tech literate, goddamn. I’m barely tech literate and I understand the difference between downloading and installing a program on your local machine and accessing streaming video on remote servers.
Scrollone@feddit.it 6 days ago
forestbeasts@pawb.social 1 week ago
…Have you not heard of DRM?
Because DRM is a thing too. They can make it so you can’t open that program on your local machine.
pinto@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Judging by how they reply, no they don’t know DRM is a thing.
forestbeasts@pawb.social 5 days ago
How I wish it actually worked that way…
– Frost
Bronzie@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Let me paint a picture for you, friend: you have a power outage while playing games. Your drive is corrupted (yes, this happened to me).
Sony has removed the game from their servers, and you just lost your only copy, as you have no way to back it up.
It is now gone forever, just like the movies they removed after selling.
You seem irritated that people push back at you, but they have valid points. Without a physical copy, you are no longer in control of the game/movie.
You also lose the ability to buy and sell used, which is a right you have with physical disks, but not with a digital license.
It’s ok to not care for physical media, but at least try to understand the point we’re trying to make. We want us all to have access to both digital and physical to choose freely. Why fight that when it’s a win/win for all of us?