'This should be illegal': Sony is deleting over 500 movies that people bought from their digital libraries — just proving further why 4K Blu-ray's popularity keeps growing
- Hundreds of TV episodes and movies will be removed from PlayStation Store accounts on 1 September
- People had bought the movies and shows
- No apologies, let alone compensation, from Sony
One of the best things about Blu-ray discs is that you don't need to worry that Sony will sneak into your home in the middle of the night and take them away.
Unfortunately you can't say the same about digital purchases: Sony is scrubbing hundreds of movies and TV show episodes purchased on the PlayStation Store from people's collections with no compensation. Come September, they're gone.
The list of affected movies and shows is on the Sony website and includes the remastered Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Gomorrah, the Rambo movies and many more. The problem is the end of a licensing agreement between Sony and StudioCanal, a major producer and distributor of movies and shows.
As Sony explains,...
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