Sony to Delete Movies Owned by PlayStation Users, List Includes More Than 550 Digital Titles

PlayStation has notified users that it volition soon delete much than 550 integer movies from users' PSN accounts owed to a licensing statement with Studio Canal.

Sony began sending retired its informing connection via email earlier this week. X/Twitter idiosyncratic @somatyk was 1 of the archetypal to stock the notification, which says the determination affects "any" Studio Canal contented they whitethorn person purchased (via Kotaku).

PlayStation lays it retired clearly: "The contented volition beryllium removed from your video library." The movies volition beryllium deleted September 1, 2026. You tin spot the 551 integer titles affected successful a database posted connected PlayStation's website.

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"From September 1, 2026, owed to our contented licensing agreements, you volition nary longer beryllium capable to entree your antecedently purchased contented from Studio Canal, and it volition beryllium removed from your video library," Sony's connection says bluntly. "Thank you, PlayStation Store."

If you person ever purchased integer movies done the PlayStation Store, you mightiness privation to spell cheque retired that list. There are plentifulness of lesser-known films that whitethorn not impact galore PSN users, but determination is simply a steadfast fig of fashionable titles, too.

Some integer versions of movies you whitethorn admit see Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut, Attack the Block, Evil Dead, Highlander, Hot Fuzz, Paddington, Rambo: First Blood, RoboCop (2014), Sharknado, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years. There are immoderate TV shows connected the list, too, including American Gods Season 1 and Below the Surface Season 1.

For now, determination is nary motion of refunds oregon alternatives for those who purchased immoderate of the movies connected the list. IGN has reached retired to Sony for comment.

This isn't the archetypal clip Sony has made an announcement regarding the abrupt removal of integer movies and shows from the PlayStation Store. In December 2023, the institution revealed that Discovery contented would beryllium pulled from purchasers' accounts with a connection astir identical to the 1 shared today.

It resulted successful rather a antagonistic absorption from those who expected to support ownership of titles they had purchased. Just weeks later, Sony reversed course, saying that Discovery titles would nary longer beryllium deleted. It said the alteration of plans was the effect of "updated licensing arrangements," thanking fans for their "ongoing enactment and feedback." At the time, that secured the quality for users to entree their purchased Discovery titles "for astatine slightest the adjacent 30 months." That 30-month timeline came to an extremity this month, June 2026.

Sony announced it would "no longer connection movie and TV purchases and rentals connected the PlayStation Store" backmost successful 2021. As it moves to delete movies from PlayStation accounts with lone a fewer months' heads-up, fans online are erstwhile again discussing what it means to "own" a integer product. It's a taxable Time Extension explored successful a impermanent file successful 2024. As the combat for digital, movie, TV, and crippled ownership continues, you tin work astir wherefore galore Grand Theft Auto 6 players are upset with Rockstar Games' latest carnal merchandise plan.

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