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PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For

Sony says Mythbusters and more Discovery TV shows are going away whether you bought them or not
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The latest pothole in the road to an all-digital future was discovered via a warning Sony recently sent out to PlayStation users who purchased TV shows made by Discovery, the reality TV network that recently merged with Warner Bros. in one of the most brutal and idiotic corporate maneuvers of our time. “Due to our content licensing arrangements with content providers, you will no longer be able to watch any of your previously purchased Discovery content and the content will be removed from your video library,” read a copy of the email that was shared with Kotaku.
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It linked to a page on the PlayStation website listing all of the shows impacted. As you might imagine, given Discovery’s penchant for pumping out seasons of relatively cheap to produce but popular reality TV and documentary-based shows, there are a lot of them. They include, but are not limited to, hits such as: Say Yes to the Dress, Shark Week, Cake Boss, Long Island Medium, Deadly Women, and many, many more.

“Is there a way I can save this content?” asked one panicked PlayStation user on Reddit. “I use PS4...But I have bought many seasons of shows such as Dual Survival that I do not wish to lose. I was actually under the impression since I owned it, I wouldn’t ever lose it…”
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Movies and TV shows first came to the PlayStation Network in 2008 via the PS3. At the time it was possible to transfer the content you bought between devices for viewing on things like the PlayStation Portable. Sony removed that option beginning with the PS4 and beyond. Now, essentially anything you buy on PSN, whether a PS5 blockbuster or, uh, Police Women of Cincinnati, is essentially just on indefinite loan until such time as the PlayStation servers die or the original copyright owner decides to pull the content.

This isn’t the first time Sony has done something like this and it won’t be the last. I’d say just buy your favorite shows on Bluray instead, but Sony and Microsoft also appear to be planning to slowly phase out optical disc drives in the future. Even the new PS5 slim’s detachable disc drive will require an online DRM check every time you plug it in. Fortunately, generic Blu-ray players are cheaper than never. Unfortunately, they don’t really print discs of Pregnant Behind Bars Season 1 anymore.
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PlayStation will not delete Discovery TV shows after all​

There's a new licensing agreement between Warner Bros and Sony

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PlayStation will not delete Discovery TV shows after all

PlayStation will no longer be removing over 1,300 Discovery TV shows from its platform next month. Sony had previously …
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Calm down guys you watch myth busters once in your lifetime and move on to better television shows like dora the explorer or something. Personally I’ve been on a thomas the train binge run. Frickin‘ awesome show!
 
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LOL why would you buy physical media? It takes up space and is bad for the environment.
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Oh just buy WBD ffs, integrate between Sony and PS and carry on with business as usual.
 
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LOL why would you buy physical media? It takes up space and is bad for the environment.
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It's funny now, probably not when PlayStation 6 or 7 comes without a disc drive - and they will remove it eventually, that's for sure.

Here's a spot-on fella:
 
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People who downloaded those TV shows through a torrent are getting better treatment than paying costumers.
 
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This is why I fucking hate corporations, and our goddamn bullshit system of governance that allows people to effectively steal from you as long as they have enough money to write the laws in their favor.
 
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Buy WBD, Sony. Fucking do it.
So many advantages across media and games.
 
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