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Affected titles include Terminator 2, Total Recall, Rambo: First Blood, and The Deer Hunter; Sony's message says the content "will be removed from your video library."
Readers noted the pattern: Amazon remotely deleted Orwell's 1984 from Kindles in 2009, and Sony itself shipped a DRM rootkit on music CDs back in 2005.
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An essay argues physical media is the only copy that 'remains under the buyer's control' — citing Sony pulling purchased films, Disney+ erasing 50+ titles, and 87% of pre-2010 games now unavailable.
The thread's killer detail is smaller: a paid Kindle novel silently turned into its German translation on redownload. The contrarians don't disagree about ownership — they just point past it. The only copy nobody can revoke or rewrite, several conclude, is the pirated one.
