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Well, there was the rootkits, the carpet-pull with regards to the PS3 and OS compatibility promises, the lawsuits against geohot, the SWAT raids and lawsuits against graf_chokolo, and now the digital library shit that's going on with Funi just adds to the history.

The Funimation shutdown is Sony

Going back further, installing a rootkit on to customer computers to prevent ripping audio CDs

I think there was a Discovery snafu as well? Like if you bought titles from the Discovery Channel on PSN, you don’t have access to those anymore. But I do think Sony should get a pass here. Or you have to blanket ban all digital goods but that seems detrimental. I understand the feeling though, as I too don’t buy anything digital outside of Steam.

>Like if you bought titles from the Discovery Channel on PSN, you don’t have access to those anymore.

That was cancelled.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011168/sony-playstatio...

I know somebody who has been boycotting them since the rootkit scandal

That was such a terrible move. For people who don’t know: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...