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Somehow I think this one is not Sony's fault entirely.

Time Warner has recently moved towards "unifying all their streaming platforms" which meant that a lot of adjacent services will close/migrate to Discovery+ directly.

I am someone that suffers the fallout of them shutting GCN+ down, which gives me about two weeks to watch around 100 cycling documentaries that the GCN people have put out in the past 3-4 years. Granted I haven't paid for them individually, so it's not as painful as for the Sony customers, but they will be shutting down access to all of them without any backup plan and without a look back.

The people at GCN seem to be as baffled as everyone else about this move. Luckily they still have a good presence on their Youtube channel where they have more accessible content.



>Somehow I think this one is not Sony's fault entirely.

I understand the sentiment of that, but as harsh as this sounds I really don't care. The least bad thing Sony could do right now is refund everybody.

I learned my lesson with Sony back in the Sonic Stage days. They are not to be trusted with digital purchases, period.


At the very least offer store credit.


> Somehow I think this one is not Sony's fault entirely.

Sorry but if you allow your platform to sell 3rd party content, you better have some consumer protections built-in in your contract with that 3rd party in case of such a scenario.


You can blame Sony for not securing the rights to keep the content available. If I rent a car and sell it to you, it's my fault when the owner takes it back.


That's all fine. But Sony should refund the original purchases if they're going to take them away.


> Time Warner

You mean Warner Bros Discovery




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