Insert Timon here.
Look we all knew this was coming. Well we all SHOULD have known this was coming. I warned you. A lot of us warned you! But here we are, they're now deleting content you own retroactively after purchase. By "they" I mean Sony. This is what "digital ownership" means. You don't own a thing, and there is no recourse available outside hacking and "grey" online archives to redownload the content you already own.
Oh man. If they start doing the same to games, I'll flip my lid. As it is, this is just television content, right?
Hate to say it, but I think from now on, I'm going to have to stick to physical media, just to be safe. Swapping discs is a big pain in the ass but I'm too old to have to worry about corporations stealing the products I paid for. Technically they can put a stop to that too, but at least for something like blu rays (they still make those, right?) I won't have to worry about Amazon shrugging and saying "oh yeah, we sold the rights to your Boondocks episodes to this other streaming service, you have to go give them money for them now". There should be laws against that.
You know what really drives me bugshit? The idea that a company can "own" art, and that they must be paid to license it out for distribution. They need nothing more than a piece of paper to legally compel a third party to pay them exorbitant fees to allow an audience to experience art that they had no hand in creating. It requires no creativity or productivity, just money. The idea is practically as idiotic as the concept of NFTs. Actors, directors, production crew, etc were responsible for the creation of film/TV, as were the production company as investors. Any future royalties should go to them, and them only.
It's been something I think about more and more recently as well. I totally understand copyright when it comes to a creator, like an actual creator. Heck I understand rewarding those who fund creators... but what I don't get is the purpose of a corporation owning something that either was made by someone long dead or was "traded" from another corporation that actually funded the project. Why is that something we allow to take place?
In any case, here's what I'll say. If a corporation steals something you bought from them... pirate it. It's literally reclamation at that point, not theft in any meaningful sense, and I DARE a corporation to sue someone over that.... On second thought, I take that back. I don't dare a corporation to sue over it. The winner of a lot of legal battles is usually determined by attrition, going to the one with pockets deep enough to afford to continue paying their lawyers.