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7/10

Receipts Keeper

A personal digital-ownership auditor that inventories your PlayStation, iTunes, Kindle, and Google Play libraries, scores each purchase's licensing risk, and alerts you before titles vanish.

Target user

Gamers and digital media buyers burned by Sony, Apple, or Amazon quietly deleting content they paid for

Features
  • Connects to major storefront accounts and lists every 'purchased' title with a licensing-risk score
  • Real-time alerts when a title is flagged for removal so you can watch or back it up first
  • One-click local archive of at-risk titles to your own drive or encrypted vault
  • Receipt and EULA snapshot at purchase time so you can pursue refunds or complaints later
Why now

Sony just wiped 551 StudioCanal titles from PS accounts with no refunds; a 379-point HN thread and global coverage show consumer anger is at a fresh peak

Signals · overall 7/10
Demand
8/10

Sony has now revoked purchased StudioCanal movies from PSN libraries three times (Germany/Austria 2022, Discovery 2023, global 551+ titles Sept 2026) with no refunds, covered by IGN/Kotaku/GamesIndustry/Eurogamer; HN thread hit 379 points showing active outrage.PlayStation Deleting More Than 550 Movies from PSN Accounts - IGNPlayStation once again pulls purchased StudioCanal content from user libraries because of licensing arrangements - GamesIndustry.biz

Whitespace
8/10

Direct search for license-expiry/vanish-alert tools for digital libraries returned nothing; nearest neighbors (My Game Cache tracks owned games, GameScriptions tracks subscriptions) don't score licensing risk or proactively alert on delisting.My Game Cache — Track Your Games Across All PlatformsGameScriptions - Your Guide to Video Game Subscriptions

Monetization
5/10

Adjacent tools (My Game Cache, GameScriptions, Backloggd) appear free/affiliate-funded; consumers rarely pay for personal library organizers and gamers are notoriously price-sensitive, leaving a freemium or $2-5/mo ceiling rather than high-ARPU SaaS.My Game Cache — Track Your Games Across All PlatformsGameScriptions - Your Guide to Video Game Subscriptions

Longevity
7/10

Rightsholder consolidation and M&A (Sony/ZeniMax, Warner/Discovery, Ubisoft pivots) is structural and repeatedly produces license revocations; Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem also being sunset Oct 2026 confirms the trend extends beyond Sony.PlayStation once again pulls purchased StudioCanal content from user libraries - GamesIndustry.biz

Feasibility
5/10

No public library-export API exists for PSN; iTunes/Google Play/Kindle APIs are read-restricted and ToS-sensitive, so this requires screen-scraping against four walled gardens plus a rights/licensing metadata source — buildable but legally gray and brittle.PlayStation once again pulls purchased StudioCanal content from user libraries - GamesIndustry.biz

Sony deletes a movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them · 379 points · 219 commentsHacker News · 2026-07-16 (8d ago)