That’s a very vague story. If people have bought access to watch a movie without a time limit, they can’t legally just remove that access. Unless that service is available through other easily accessible services, like for instance an internet service.
You also don’t mention if you were in EU at the time.
It seems like this may be a 3rd party service delivered on the PlayStation, so it may be the responsibility of Studiocanal and not Sony.
If they had to write “lifetime means 2 years (or whenever we feel like it)” in big letters above the works “buy” or “purchase” it may affect their “sales”. They can write whatever they want in small print, they shouldn’t have told customers it was buying.
Nope, not in EU they can’t. And pressing a button that says yes is not legally binding in EU, we do have actual legal precedence for that.
Also the laws that protect consumers CANNOT ever never be put aside by any license agreement!! Any such license is ILLEGAL, and by being illegal all claims to protect the issuer of the license are illegal. While those granting consumers protections may still stand.
Actually putting things in “small print” are more likely to void any claims than actually uphold them in a court of law.
Remember these are also EU countries, and EU countries have actual consumer protection, it’s not like the wild west of countries like USA.
While that obviously sucks, there was a way to keep accessing all the content you wanted to keep.
While that is a scumbag move, I can understand how regulation wasn’t designed to handle a situation like that.
I’m not even sure it is today.
They can and they do, it’s called selling a license to watch. If the platform loses their license to redistribute you may still hold that license to watch with them but since they now are not allowed to show it to you anymore that license is worth nothing anymore. Now if what you “bought” ever enters their platform again your license should still be valid, however often they weasel around this by licensing a “remaster” or other slightly modified version so they can argue it’s a different work.
That would make sense if the movie becomes available on their store again you didn’t have to repurchase it. But you do. The licence is very fragile and “breaks” if there’s ever any licensing issues.
That’s a very vague story. If people have bought access to watch a movie without a time limit, they can’t legally just remove that access. Unless that service is available through other easily accessible services, like for instance an internet service.
You also don’t mention if you were in EU at the time.
It seems like this may be a 3rd party service delivered on the PlayStation, so it may be the responsibility of Studiocanal and not Sony.
If they had to write “lifetime means 2 years (or whenever we feel like it)” in big letters above the works “buy” or “purchase” it may affect their “sales”. They can write whatever they want in small print, they shouldn’t have told customers it was buying.
Nope, not in EU they can’t. And pressing a button that says yes is not legally binding in EU, we do have actual legal precedence for that.
Also the laws that protect consumers CANNOT ever never be put aside by any license agreement!! Any such license is ILLEGAL, and by being illegal all claims to protect the issuer of the license are illegal. While those granting consumers protections may still stand.
Actually putting things in “small print” are more likely to void any claims than actually uphold them in a court of law.
Remember these are also EU countries, and EU countries have actual consumer protection, it’s not like the wild west of countries like USA.
Are there EU protection laws against forced arbitration?
Yes.
It was Eu, Germany and they removed the abillity to redownload bought series/movies,but graciusly allowed us to keep the already downloaded stuff.
As the files where drm protected and not copy able, that was not a long time solution, espacially with the price gouging of psvita memory cards.
Im so vague, because its probably over 10 years since then.
While that obviously sucks, there was a way to keep accessing all the content you wanted to keep.
While that is a scumbag move, I can understand how regulation wasn’t designed to handle a situation like that.
I’m not even sure it is today.
They can and they do, it’s called selling a license to watch. If the platform loses their license to redistribute you may still hold that license to watch with them but since they now are not allowed to show it to you anymore that license is worth nothing anymore. Now if what you “bought” ever enters their platform again your license should still be valid, however often they weasel around this by licensing a “remaster” or other slightly modified version so they can argue it’s a different work.
That would make sense if the movie becomes available on their store again you didn’t have to repurchase it. But you do. The licence is very fragile and “breaks” if there’s ever any licensing issues.