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Customer: HEY! Where's my movie?? Sony: Oh, we had to scale down. C: What does that mean? I bought that movie! S: Well, no - you bought the right to access that movie. C: If I own access, why can't I watch it? S: Well, no - see, you "bought" it, but you don't "own" it. C: W. T. F.??

In many cases, Sony is still lowballing some artists by paying at the artist's record royalty rate, a "sale", vs a license, and a share of licensing fees (a 50/50 split of net). Many of these are older artists, no longer signed to the label and lacking the leverage to modify their contracts.