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While I see your frustration factor as legitimate, I guess I'm looking at it from a different point of view. I buy from digital scrapbooking stores all the time. They give you four or five downloads available for 30 days or so, and then that's it. However, this policy is clearly explained before you buy anything, so everyone is aware of it. A lot of the store owners will reset your download for you in the event of a major computer hardware problem, such as a hard drive crashing, but not all of them will do this. So I'm used to making multiple backups of anything in data form I buy online. Trusting your data, whether it be ebooks or scrap kits, to only one media device is just asking to lose stuff. The same with trusting any company online or off to store media for you for future use. The company can go bankrupt and the site disappear with no warning, their servers can crash, any number of things.
I'm not saying that Sony not having this available for you with no warning is the right thing to do, I think at the very least there should have been a clear dialogue when you bought it that it would not be available after such date and why. But protecting yourself with responsible backups is a sure way that even if such a thing happens to you again, you won't get burned by it.
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