Sony strikes deal with Discovery, will not delete purchased programming from Play Stations

[thewayne]

In an eleventh hour deal, an agreement was made and people's purchases of shows like Myth Busters will not be remotely purged from their gaming consoles in the deep of the night. Over 1,300 Discovery shows were slated to be wiped on New Year's Eve, sans agreement, this is good news to those who bought digital copies rather than physical media.

Sadly, in August of last year, purchasers of Studio Canal content did not receive such a reprieve and lost their content due to a collapsed licensing agreement.

PHYSICAL MEDIA, PEOPLE! THEY CAN'T LICENSE THAT AWAY FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE IT IN YOUR HAND!

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/playstation-will-not-delete-discovery-tv-shows-after-all

Comments

[dewline]

Damn right, and I'm still sure that there's lawyers tasked at every Big Media Company to find the ways to finally do that to us all.

[moxie_man]

What they'll do is buy-out the technology and shut it down. Then as people's DVD/BluRay players wear-out and there is no way to repair or replace them...

Yes, I can be very cynical about BMC and other corporations.