By finish of subsequent month, it’s been revealed that Sony will take away the power to view Studio Canal films that customers bought via the PlayStation Retailer.
This new data comes from their German webpage, which has this authorized discover:
“As of August 31, 2022, resulting from our evolving licensing agreements with content material suppliers, you’ll not have the ability to view your beforehand bought Studio Canal content material and it is going to be eliminated out of your video library,” the discover reads.
Those that bought these films will not have them obtainable to look at via the PlayStation Retailer. It is a determination that can assuredly draw ire from clients who purchased films similar to Django, John Wick, The Starvation Video games, and Noticed.
Again in March of 2021, Sony had introduced they’d be shutting down the flicks part of their storefront, the place the official shutdown would happen on August later that yr.
On the time, Sony had promised that customers who had bought any films would nonetheless have entry to them after the shutdown.
Given this information, that promise has now been damaged – even whether it is simply on Studio Canal, there are numerous in style titles affected with this transfer.
This information additionally harkens again to Sony’s current updates to their PS3 and PS Vita consoles. The newest updates for the older consoles eliminated options, similar to simply transferring video games and saves between the 2, when it was as soon as thought of a promoting level.
The lack of bought movies via the PlayStation Retailer will as soon as once more fireplace the dialogue on what is actually thought of “owned” on the earth of digital.
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