It’s fucking nuts that service providers can just remove your purchases like this without refunds.

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/legal/psvideocontent/#

Discovery Entitlements Affected Titles

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@gamingonlinux In this case, piracy may be a necessary evil for watching the lost content.

Edit: apparently, I struck a nerve with this toot.

@Ertain @gamingonlinux If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.

@jordan_kendrick @Ertain @gamingonlinux Part of what's terrible is that most digital storage media has a short lifespan, but copying it validates the copy, so the most reliable way to preserve digital data is to distribute it widely and keep copying it regularly.

We need piracy to preserve culture.

@foolishowl @Ertain @gamingonlinux In order to preserve it in any meaningful fashion, you’re right.
@jordan_kendrick @foolishowl @Ertain @gamingonlinux That's definitely what we're seeing in retrogaming, the deep catalog of old computer games only survives today as a result of earlier piracy efforts.