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When we went to our seats, the wait staff let us know that despite the fact that the previews were playing, we wouldn’t know until the movie actually started whether we could see the film or not. If it didn’t work, the screen would just turn black. Luckily, the film went through without a hitch.

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[–] [email protected] 245 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The marvels of intellectual property

[–] DudeImMacGyver 182 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Remember when they started infecting people's computers with rootkits?

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've avoided Sony products as best I can since then. I'm probably not aware of the full suite of Sony-owned brands and companies, but rootkit made it so I haven't had a piece of Sony branded merchandise in almost 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same here! It's absolutely bonkers to me that everyone was just OK with that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

can younplease explain to me what happened. I haven't heard about this one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My wf-xm4 earphones have battery problems and sony won't do any about it. it's a known problem, so I went out and got a sony es receiver, that has a known hissing problem and they won't do anything about it. Maybe ill learn someday.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Oh fuck I’d forgotten about that.

I knew I hated Sony, but I’d totally forgotten about that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hilariously enough, even at the theater, you'd get a better experience pirating the movie. Y'know, cause you'd ACTUALLY GET TO WATCH THE MOVIE AT ALL. Proving yet again piracy is a service problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You could probably only find CAMS for in theater movies anyways.

And a CAM is arguably worse than nothing