Comment by rubyfan
13 hours ago
> They would have to refund everyone for every purchase in the long run.
That is the minimum they should do. At best they should offer the movie collections for free through competitors.
13 hours ago
> They would have to refund everyone for every purchase in the long run.
That is the minimum they should do. At best they should offer the movie collections for free through competitors.
There's no limit to what the best they could do is. A full refund is just what's simple, fair, and quick. I wouldn't put it past them to try to find some legal basis that the minimum is actually less than that in certain jurisdictions though.
A forced refund to something you purchased years ago is not fair at all. At the very least they should have to pay current market price for a replacement.
The trouble with that is you cannot operate a business where you pay your suppliers for a product then give everything away.
I am saying that as a reflection of reality, not to absolve Sony. Someone at Sony must have understood that their licensing agreements were incompatible with the definition of sale. Someone else likely stuck some clauses into the EULA to reflect that, fully realizing that no-one reads those things (also realizing that it is not reasonable to expect consumers to read an EULA for every transaction in their life). The someone who is now responsible for executing the outcome would also understand that there is the potential for legal action on such a matter, but they also understand that there are legal machinations that will, at worse, limit the damages to a sum that is lower than the cost of refunding the full value of each and every purchase made through their service.
Sounds like fraud.