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Did you take into account that WB just merged discovery with HBO which means those shows will more than likely be on the HBO streaming platform which is why WB is not renewing Sony's licensing agreement?
Those terms (EULA) are included at least twice. The first time when you set up a Sony system such as a PlayStation, and again when you download a streaming app, and again once you decide to purchase something. So there is no "it only showed up after a consumer paid" excuse here. Meaning When these consumers downloaded the discover app they agreed to WB's TOS or EULA.
You don't have any proof that they chose a legal contract that was cheaper or that the specified time limit was Sony's rather than WB's. You make a lot of assumptions here.
https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/legal/psn-terms-of-service/
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/legal/psn-terms-of-service/
https://www.ign.com/articles/hbo-maxs-cut-content-to-shift-to-other-streaming-services-as-warner-bros-discovery-prepares-relaunch
https://nofilmschool.com/warner-bros-deleting-purchased-digital-content
Disney did this same thing before they launched Disney+. Paramount and other license holders have done the same.
Whatever is happenning on the WB side is irrelevant as their contractual obligations to Sony passed to the merged company.
Sony made a business were they leased long term to retail costumers something they themselves were renting on short term renewable contracts and, worse, misportrayed it to so said retail customers would confuse a lease with a sale. It's not the fault of those renting stuff to Sony who chose not to renew the rental to Sony, that the business and contractual structure Sony put in place resulted in the consequences of a non-renewal of the rental being passed fully to the retail customers of Sony who, worse, were not in any way, form or shape, compensate for it by Sony.
Sony put in place this commercial structure, knew the risks and structured it all ol that it passed them fully to retail customers without making those risks clear to said retail customers, quite the contrary. Sony profited before the risks materialised and passed on the consequences to their retail customers fully and without compensation when they did materialise.
It's not the blame of the guys upstream who were loaning something to Sony on short term contracts that Sony chose to lease that something long term to retail customers in a way that would cause many to confuse it with a sale and that at the end of the loan contract between those guys and Sony, the latter fully passed the consequences of it, without compensation, to their retail customers.
At best, if you want to find blame beyond Sony, look at the politicians that made the Laws that allow Sony to get away with doing what would otherwise be deemed fraud and in their otherwise-fraudulent business model made sure the predictable negative consequences of the end of any rental agreements upstream, to Sony, would fall entirelly on the shoulders of retail customers.