• Chais@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    To be fair, streaming was never buying. It was always paying entry to a library. If stuff gets removed from the library that’s the way it is.
    That isn’t to say I don’t agree. Piracy is a service problem, as Gabe Newell so eloquently put it. Streaming started losing the moment it started splintering into cable networks.

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      10 months ago

      Sony allowed you to purchase episodes and seasons of shows like Mythbusters. They specifically stated you were purchasing that content.

      Then they removed that purchased content from people’s account’s after they went separate ways with Discovery. Sony and Discovery stole from their customers