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I stopped knowingly buying all things Sony because of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia

and this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

That made me switch to the XBox One, and I was quite happy with it.

I've not knowingly paid directly for anything Sony. Indirectly, I've watched Spiderman on cable, so I expect my cable provider paid them pennies out of my monthly fee.

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A quick ctrl+f on that Cinavia wiki page doesn't have any matches for Sony. Could you enlighten me on what relevance Cinavia has, specific to Sony?

Xbox also does DRM, is there a reason why you are okay with that DRM?

Cinavia was stuffed into the PS2 (or PS3?) with no publicity, as part of the increasing blu-ray DRM and advertised as as blu-ray player that actually wouldn't play some legitimate blu-rays.

(and blu-ray was a Sony invention - https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00017948)

Microsoft has also done an incredible amount of extremely shady stuff in their long history. Neither side is pure as the driven snow.

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