The Subscription Economy Is Killing the American Dream

**Matt Walsh** (0:00)
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We're all aware of the WEF's now infamous threat, you'll own nothing and be happy. Globalists have been using that phrase for a decade. Now, understandably, it's led to a lot of backlash. If you manage to survey 100 normal, non-schizophrenic people on the street, all 100 of them would tell you that owning property is preferable to borrowing everything. Just from a PR perspective, it's even so remarkable that they even attempted to push this messaging. It's obviously appalling. But as it turns out, you don't really need any buy-in from the public in order to force this plan down their throats. You can tell customers that they're buying something, and you can clarify explicitly that they're purchasing it and not renting it. And then one day, you can simply remove the product from their homes, and you don't even have to offer them a refund or anything. This is one of the more important stories that isn't getting a lot of mainstream attention, but it's a very important sign of where things are going. Tens of thousands of people in the UK and Europe who purchase digital content on Sony's PlayStation Store, which sells games, movies, and television shows, recently received the following notification in their inbox. And here it is, quote, From September 1st, 2026, due to our content licensing agreements, you will no longer be able to access your previously purchased content from Studio Canal and it will be removed from your video library. Thank you, PlayStation Store.
That's it, they don't even get a refund, not an apology. They're simply informed that although they thought they were purchasing this content, it was actually an extended rental and now it's gone. To be clear, customers navigated to the store page for various movies and television shows, and they had an option. They could rent a movie, which they'd have to view within a month, or they could spend more money and, quote, purchase it. What's being deleted from their accounts are purchases including films like Apocalypse Now, Evil Dead, Highlander, Hot Fuzz, Paddington, Rambo, First Blood, as well as First Blood Part 2, Robocop, Sharknado, Terminator 2, Judgment Day. Several television shows will also be removed including American God Season 1 and Below the Surface Season 1 A couple of years ago, a similar purge nearly took place. This is from Business Insider back in 2023, quote, Sony is removing hundreds of discovery titles from users' video libraries that they already purchased. Users who bought any of the hundreds of listed programs will no longer be able to access the content as of December 31st, according to a legal notice posted by the company. Due to our content licensing arrangements with content providers, you will no longer be able to watch any of your previously purchased discovery content and the content will be removed from your video library, according to the note.
In that case, Sony eventually signed new license arrangements that restored access to this content, but the point was made. Even when you purchase something online, you don't actually own it. You're at the mercy of whatever license you're agreeing to, which is 5,000 pages long and which no one will ever read. Indeed, just a few years later, Sony has said that it will begin removing digital purchases from everybody's account.
Now, for now, these purges are unique to Sony, but every single online service that sells movies and television shows works the exact same way. I looked up the terms of service on Amazon Prime Video, for example. This is another service that says you can buy movies instead of just renting them. But when you read the fine print on the website, here's what you find, quote, availability of purchase digital content. Purchase digital content will generally continue to be available to you for download or streaming from the service as applicable, but may become unavailable due to potential content provider licensing restrictions or for other reasons, and Amazon will not be liable to you if purchase digital content becomes unavailable for further download or streaming.