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| FarleyMcFirefly said: Pardon my ignorance. I have never purchased digital film or television. If you do purchase on a console is it not saved to your console? How do they remove what you have already purchased? |
I'm not sure about how it technically works, but with consoles like the Playstation every software has a license it needs to provide for the system to allow it to run, I remember some issues dating back to the PS3 could make you need to restore the license, individually, for the games to work, there is even an option for you do try to restore it in the UI yourself. So by revoking all licenses tied to a specific software I can imagine they can prevent it from being accessed even if its download. And with a system update it could simply corrupt the file in your storage so if would need to be erased.
We saw something in that vein this year with the PS4/PS5 digital games now needing you to provide an internet connection once after a 14 days period after purchase the game, where even if it was installed in your system, if you don't provide an internet connection for the system to transition the license status from temporary to permanent after that 14 days period once, even if you did during the 14 days, the game will simply refuse to open after 30 days it was bought. Once you provide it once after that period, it would never become a problem again.
So all software need to provide a license to the system for it to allow it to be played, even physical hypothetically, it's also a license, but they can't legally break into your house to take it from you.
