Needless to say
Last year, in E359, you published a letter from me where I argued that gaming being seduced by the trivial convenience of digital downloads has been a self-destructive folly that has diminished us into a precarious generation: you own physical media but you only ever lease digital media, where you have no security of a binding contract and its terms can be changed at any time.
Recent events have borne out the truth of my statement. I was initially prompted to write this follow-up because at the time of submission the Internet has been all a-twitter with Warner Bros Discovery making a bonfire of its online content, abruptly deleting numerous shows from a variety of streaming services, from HBO Max to even YouTube channels, without warning. And from August 31 in Germany and Austria, thanks to the expiration of a StudioCanal licence, over 300 downloadable movies and TV shows through the PlayStation Store will no longer
