Digital ownership

On June 29, 2026, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) told a California Senate committee that community-hosted video game servers are illegal & that the trade group considers them piracy, in…

On April 2nd, 2024 Funimation, a paid media-streaming platform was shutdown as part of a merger with another media-streaming platform known as Crunchyroll. This was a planned merger as a result of…

Milan Digital Audio, developers of the Hauptwerk virtual pipe organ software, refused to provide installation files for older versions of their software to customers who purchased perpetual licenses…

Readers who bought chapters on Kakao Entertainment's Radish & Tapas apps lose them when each app shuts down, with no refund & no copy they can keep. Radish, an English-language app for web novels…

In 2026, two Microsoft account holders who reported that their accounts had been hacked found that Microsoft suspended the accounts & cut the owners off from the purchased Xbox game libraries &…

Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York announced in a press release on October 15, 2026 that he "will introduce" the Power To The Players Act, a bill that would direct the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to…

Protect Our Games Act is the short title of California Assembly Bill 1921 (AB 1921), a 2026 bill that would stop video game publishers from selling a single-purchase digital game & later disabling…

In April 2026, Sony introduced changes to its PlayStation license system suggesting a requirement to authenticate certain game purchases through the PlayStation Network. Reports indicated that newly…

Sony has deleted movies & television shows that customers bought through the PlayStation Store, & has scheduled the deletion of hundreds more once its license to that content ends. The most recent…

Readers who paid real money to unlock Tapas comics will lose them when South Korean media company Kakao Entertainment closes Tapas on March 31, 2027, with no refund & no copy they can keep. Tapas…

VitalSource "Lifetime" Access Controversy is in reference to a practice by VitalSource, a large digital textbook & course material provider for college educational markets in the United States…

June Life sold the June Oven, a countertop oven whose built-in camera and software identify the food placed inside and set the cook program, at $1,495 when the first generation shipped in December…

In July 2026, three paid Xbox games from developer Creepy Brothers, Creepy Tale, Creepy Tale 2, & Strike Force Kitty, were hard delisted from the Microsoft Store, meaning they were pulled from sale &…