• Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    A storm knocked out Internet, so now you can’t play any games due to Always-on DRM.

    You try to watch a movie you physically own, but you didn’t buy the $350 optical addon to the digital-only version of the console.

      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        already does. I had a Samsung bluray player from over a decade ago that refused to play any movies made a year after it was manufactured unless I connected it to update. it went in my kids room and plays DVDs from the local library now.

        1000004280

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today
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      3 days ago

      This first happened to me in 2014? It’s super frustrating.

      It also happens with Steam. I remember forgetting to go offline before taking my gaming laptop to the woods or in airplanes, and suddenly not being able to play.

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        3 days ago

        do you remember those old pcmcia card cellphone adapters so you could work wherever you had cellphone coverage, but subscriptions were so expensive you needed a good excuse to make your boss pay for one because [dude who invented money. I dunno. Prometheus?] fuck dude, those cost a lot in the early 2000s.

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      3 days ago

      i felt this way when A: drives went away. if it doesn’t have to be a sony brand BD player and could just be one that meets certain specs… fuck prices are going up such that 350 will be “cheap” soon.