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As far as I can tell, the headline is misleading, it's streaming of movies bought on Studiocanal that isn't available.
I assume streaming is still possible through other sources, but I can't really say, the service isn't available in my country.
The company operates primarily in France, Germany and UK, so if the headline was really true, I bet it would result in a shitstorm from EU regulators.
The last Time i 'owned' something from sony, back on my ps vita, when they pulled the same stunt the regulator didnt give a fuck. So i would assume neither do they now.
I learned my lesson back then and never again spend money on ps store.
That's a very vague story. If people have bought access to watch a movie without a time limit, they can't legally just remove that access. Unless that service is available through other easily accessible services, like for instance an internet service.
You also don't mention if you were in EU at the time.
It seems like this may be a 3rd party service delivered on the PlayStation, so it may be the responsibility of Studiocanal and not Sony.
It was Eu, Germany and they removed the abillity to redownload bought series/movies,but graciusly allowed us to keep the already downloaded stuff.
As the files where drm protected and not copy able, that was not a long time solution, espacially with the price gouging of psvita memory cards.
Im so vague, because its probably over 10 years since then.
While that obviously sucks, there was a way to keep accessing all the content you wanted to keep.
While that is a scumbag move, I can understand how regulation wasn't designed to handle a situation like that.
I'm not even sure it is today.