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Sony: your purchased movies are actually a long-term rental
On September 1, 2026, Sony is deleting 551 movies and shows from PlayStation libraries across the UK and Europe. These are titles people hit "Buy" on and paid full price for, including Terminator 2, Total Recall, and Bridget Jones' Diary.
Published Jul 20, 2026
What happened
Sony's own notice says that from September 1, 2026, 551 previously purchased StudioCanal titles will be removed from customers' video libraries across the UK and Europe, with no refunds offered. PlayStation's terms of service say that use of the terms "own," "ownership", "purchase," "sale," "sold," "sell," "rent" or "buy" "does not mean or imply any transfer of ownership" of any content, and that all content provided through PlayStation is "licensed on a non-exclusive and revocable basis."
Sony pulled the same move in Germany and Austria in 2022 and tried it with the over 1,300 Discovery titles on PlayStation's own affected-titles list in the U.S. in 2023. This is a pattern, not a glitch.
After consumer backlash, Sony reversed course on December 21, 2023, saying it had worked with Warner Bros. to update its licensing agreements so customers "will be able to access their previously purchased content for at least the next 30 months."
California's A.B. 2426 took effect on January 1, 2025, and requires sellers of digital goods to tell buyers when a purchase is only a license. Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, who wrote the bill, told Game File that "the main story that brought this issue to my attention" was Sony's announcement that purchased Discovery content would be revoked.
FULU's takeaway
You never owned what you paid for, and Sony's own terms admit it.
Why this is a law problem
Most of these entries involve a digital lock guarding copyrighted software, and a lock like that sits under Section 1201 of the DMCA, 17 U.S.C. 1201. Subsection 1201(a)(1) makes it unlawful to bypass a lock that controls access to a copyrighted work, even when no copyright is infringed. Subsections 1201(a)(2) and 1201(b)(1) separately ban making or distributing the tools that do the bypassing.
Every three years the Librarian of Congress can exempt narrow classes of uses from the first ban. An exemption expires after three years and has to be re-argued, and the rulemaking has no authority over the tool bans, so a granted exemption still leaves no lawful supplier for the means to use it. FULU exists to reform or revoke this statute.
If you want this law changed, donations fund the work. FULU is a 501(c)(4). Donations to FULU are not tax-deductible, which is the tradeoff for being able to lobby without a limit.
Nothing on these pages says any company named here violated Section 1201. FULU is not a law firm, and this is not legal advice.
The original post
The slides below are the originals as posted. Where a slide and the text on this page disagree, go by the text; the text is the corrected, sourced record. Some slides also print an old wiki address that no longer works. The links on this page are current.
The third slide says the Discovery shows stay available through 2027. Sony's actual statement was access 'for at least the next 30 months' from December 2023, which is what the text quotes.
Originally published as an Instagram carousel on Jul 20, 2026: See Instagram post.
Sources
This entry condenses Sony's attempted removal of "purchased" content on consumerrights.wiki.
- Sony's attempted removal of "purchased" content, consumerrights.wiki (community-edited secondary source) (archived)
- PlayStation Terms of Service (US), Sony Interactive Entertainment (archived)
- Studio Canal Removal (UK) legal notice and affected titles list, PlayStation Store (archived)
- Discovery Entitlements Affected Titles notice and December 21, 2023 update, PlayStation Store, Dec 21, 2023 (archived)
- PlayStation is deleting Terminator 2 and 550 other movies, Kotaku, Jun 26, 2026 (archived)
- Sony won't remove Discovery TV content from PlayStation customers for at least 30 months, TweakTown, Dec 21, 2023 (archived)
- A.B. 2426 (2024), consumer protection: false advertising: digital goods, California Legislative Information, Sep 24, 2024 (archived)
- Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin on what prompted A.B. 2426, Game File (archived)
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