If purchasing something doesn’t mean you own it, then piracy isn’t theft.
If someone sells something to you and then takes it back later, that is theft.
Sony is shit for doing this, however if you buy streaming content thinking you’re going to have access to it forever you’re kidding yourself. Businesses will supply streaming content for as long as it’s profitable to do so. When that profit evaporates so does your content.
This is huge and not like what happened last month.
Last month they removed access to “Deadly Dentists | Season 1” and similar shows that are also broadcasted 24/7 everywhere on TV, so not too many people “purchased” them.
But for anime the chance that a big fan is losing access to a massive collection of titles paid thousands of dollars is much higher.
Sony didn’t learn from the backlash that happened less than two months ago???
They learned that the backlash was easily ignored, most likely.
