Let’s Talk About…Digital Ownership

Episode 8

In the latest episode of Let’s Talk About… the boys discussed the ever changing landscape of movie ownership, asking the inevitable question: Is the tide turning on digial ownsership?

This all came about when this week Sony announced they would be removing over 550 movies from people’s Playstation Network (PSN) accounts after a licensing agreement with Studio Canal came to an end. Its no small catalogue either, as Studio Canal have everything from Apocalypse Now: Directors Cut, all the way through to Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy, so if you had a decent collection built up over the years, there is no doubt that you would feel some impact from this.

Naturally, the boys love a good DVD, and have amassed movies both physically and digitally over the years, so with a story this close to our hearts hitting the headlines this week, we thought we would grab a brew and have a chat about it.

Things we cover in this weeks episode:

• The situation over at Sony and why the films are being removed

• What does this mean for digital ownership after a deletion of this scale?

• Given how we consumer movies now, does the debate over physical or digital ownership even matter anymore?

Check out the latest episode over on Spotify (the little link at the bottom of the page should take you straight to it).

Let us know what you think in the comments section!