PlayStation owners rage over plot to delete downloads you’ve paid for with NO refund

DIGITAL media is becoming more and more popular, but this comes with some risks.

Whenever you purchase digital content, you are met with lengthy terms and conditions, though you may have never read them.

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In these, it states that the digital media you purchase is not truly yours to own, but is more like a long-term rental.

Deep in the fine print companies reserve the right to remove any digital content that you have purchased without a reason.

Of course, this rarely happens. If a company were to do this regularly, people would lose faith in them.

However, a recent announcement from PlayStation has revealed that this will soon happen to PS5 owners.

The issue was first brought to people’s attention by an email stating: “As of December 31, 2023, 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.”

This means that any TV shows purchased via Discovery will soon be deleted from your console and no refund will be given.

Over 1k seasons of TV shows are affected by the change, mostly coming from popular reality TV shows.

Hugely successful shows like Say Yes to the Dress, Naked and Afraid, Cake Boss, and Mythbusters will all be getting the chop.

However, it should be noted that Sony has not made the decision to remove the content, but Warner Bros. which purchased Discovery last year.

Warner Bros. has cancelled a number of projects recently, including the already filmed Batgirl movie featuring big stars like Brendan Fraser, Michael Keaton, and JK Simmons.

PlayStation owners are obviously angry about the issue. One Twitter user wrote: “They should give them a refund. That’s straight-up stealing.”

Another said: “Now just imagining this scenario but with games instead of movies. Hope it doesn’t happen with a large library of games”

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Written by Georgina Young on behalf of GLHF.

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This post first appeared on Thesun.co.uk