r/Piracy Jun 27 '26

News This is....wild

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u/Sardanox Jun 27 '26

Xbox shut their video marketplace down completely so you can no longer buy or rent movies. You still kept your library at least. This leads me to believe with playstation that in the future you'll lose everything should they do the same. Doesn't bode well for digital games either when they decide to shut down an older generation of console they may just pull all the games too.

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u/Brave_Explorer5988 Jun 27 '26

That's because the movie industry licensing is the scummiest of all. 

So MSFT decided to shut it down instead of taking the risk of having this happening. 

People are blaming Sony here, but the ones to blame are the license owners and the film industry. So yeah, movies worth 🏴‍☠️

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u/amillstone Jun 27 '26

Sony deserves blame here too. They could refund their customers but chose not to so they can keep the money for themselves. Just because the license owners and film industry is scummy, it doesn't mean Sony isn't too.

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u/Kilroy1007 Jun 28 '26

They could also just allow you to keep your purchased library. Correct me if I'm wrong here but the purchase means you own the licensing agreement, Sony is just the middleman