All that sounds reasonable, but you have much more faith than I do that the studios won’t just do whatever they want anyway. This is the same YouTube which will demonetize or take down any content for having seven seconds of a song overheard in the background just because the rightsholder asks them to. YouTube’s very existence is only at the mercy of content rightsholders to not sue them into oblivion like they almost did 15 years ago. In my experience, those entities will do whatever the fuck they want and YouTube will happily comply.
I have faith that large corporations will not openly do things that would cause them billions of dollars in direct damages and billions of dollars in reputational harm, in addition to the criminal charges they would be facing in the E.U. for such an act.
Simply put, the story doesn't make any sense, and a deep dive into the Paw Patrol reddit forums didn't reveal any other person having this issue.
Nobody’s paying billions of dollars because they made someone’s TV show disappear. If anyone sued over it class-action the end result would be a small settlement paid in the form of coupons (and yes, money for lawyer fees). And how did you know anyone in EU was affected?
Anyway I have no way of knowing if that person had that exact thing happen, or if he forgot which account it was bought under, but it’s hilarious to suggest there are ironclad legal protections here for us mere “licensees” of IP. Read the terms and conditions on any site that “sells” content to find all the giant loopholes they created for themselves, including the final “we reserve the right to change this whole deal without notice at any time and you agree that that is okay and waive your rights to sue.”
