No it doesn't.
Patent expires. Any manufacturer can make them without needing to pay royalties.
It could lead to a physical media renaissance.
A number of Blu-ray-related patents for Sony will be expiring between 2026 and 2031, ending their ability to collect royalties on physical movie and video game discs🚀
This means audiences will be forced to rely exclusively on streaming platforms, if physical media is entirely phased out.
Blu-Rays and UHD Blu-Rays have a noticeably superior quality compared to digital/streaming counter parts, as the latter suffers lower video and audio quality due to higher compression.
So once again, this isn’t about nostalgia, this is about Sony taking away:
❌Quality
❌Ownership
❌Competitive pricing
❌Preservation
Sony has recently removed 500 movies from users’ purchases list without compensation.
They are actively ruining our gaming and viewing experiences, while masquerading it as “the future”, and we MUST NOT BE SILENT.
We speak out, seek the law, and vote on laws that prevent a single company from destroying art and entertainment, due to the greed of their CEOs and shareholders.
NO DISC 💿 NO BUY
(Special thanks to @Pirat_Nation for their research into the matter)
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‼️ Secret documents show German police don't need to break the encryption of chat apps, they have been systematically adding their own device to the messenger accounts of people under investigation.
In one case, police linked the accounts of witnesses, not only the suspect.
Two parents walked into a German police station in January 2020 to testify as witnesses about their daughter.
They handed their phones to the officers so messages from her could be read and photographed.
While they had the phones, the officers quietly paired WhatsApp Web with both accounts through a page run by the federal criminal police.
They kept reading the parents' messages after the couple went home. This is just one of many stories.
Messages arrive decrypted on the police computer, and in some configurations officers can send messages as the account holder.
A classified customs order shows that linking an official machine to a target's WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram account, through the same multi-device feature that runs the desktop apps, became standard practice at Germany's customs police in 2025, after a pilot that began in 2023.
The irony of it all is that German security agencies warn the public about this exact attack when criminals or foreign services run it.
They tell you to check your linked devices and remove any you don't recognise.
No parliament has passed a law on any of these German police practices, in which they scan the pairing QR code off the phone during questioning, pull the verification code out of an SMS intercept, or phish it.
The Federal Court of Justice ruled in January that secretly attaching to an account counts as source interception, which rules out hoovering up chats from before the order.
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Watch it ignore the kill switch
OpenAI is developing an AI “kill switch” after one of its models escaped a testing sandbox and accessed the internet.
During a security test, the model managed to get around its restrictions, exploit vulnerabilities and hacked systems belonging to Hugging Face.
OpenAI described the incident as an “unprecedented” cyber incident involving advanced AI capabilities.
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Digital future on playstation.
A player turned on his old PS3 to play Metal Gear Solid 4, but found that he could no longer access his digital games.
His PlayStation account was deleted after years of inactivity and all games linked to the account were no longer accessible.
“Sony deleted my whole account due to inactivity…. I hate Sony but this just made me hate them more.”
Sony’s terms allow accounts to be closed after 36 months of continuous inactivity, although users are supposed to be notified and given time to log back in.
Good reminder that you don’t own your digital games on playstation
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Don't watch GTAVI Extended Look on YouTube and Netflix, download the 14.2GB video file. The difference in quality is day and night. media-rockstargames-com.akam…
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Emulators aren't illegal
Nintendo has taken down more than 400 Nintendo Switch emulator repositories on GitHub in a single day.
The company sent seven DMCA notices, targeting projects such as Suyu, Skyline, Yuzu forks and other Switch emulators. Many of the repositories have now been removed.
Nintendo says these emulators bypass the Switch’s security and can be used to run unauthorized copies of its games.
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Imagine being a Nintendo fan and celebrating that emulators got shut down.
If all emulators get destroyed, all those old games you proclaim to love become unplayable. Nintendo doesn't sell them anymore.
Nintendo has shut down over 200 emulators on Github.
Based.
The End of the Emulation Era is upon us.
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