Comment on Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED!
atrielienz@lemmy.world 9 months agoDid you take into account that WB just merged discovery with HBO which means those shows will more than likely be on the HBO streaming platform which is why WB is not renewing Sony’s licensing agreement?
Aceticon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Whatever is happenning on the WB side is irrelevant as their contractual obligations to Sony passed to the merged company.
Sony made a business were they leased long term to retail costumers something they themselves were renting on short term renewable contracts and, worse, misportrayed it to so said retail customers would confuse a lease with a sale. It’s not the fault of those renting stuff to Sony who chose not to renew the loan to Sony, that the business and contractual structure Sony put in place resulted in the consequences of a non-renewal of the loan being passed fully to the retail customers of Sony who, worse, were not in any way, form or shape, compensate for it by Sony.
Sony put in place this commercial structure, knew the risks and chose a structure that passed them fully to retail customers without making it clear to said retail customers, quite the contrary. They profited until the risks materialised and passed on the consequences to their retail customers fully and without compensation when they did materialise.
It’s not the blame of the guys upstream who were loaning something to Sony on short term contracts that Sony chose to lease that something long term to retail customers in a way that would confuse it with a sale and that at the end of the loan contract between those guys and Sony, the latter fully passed the consequences of it, without compensation, to the retail customers.
At best, if you want to find blame beyond Sony, look at the politicians that made the Laws that allow Sony to get away with doing what would otherwise be deemed fraud and to put the predictable negative consequences of that business model entirelly on the shoulders of retail customers.