PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don’t Own Your Digital Games

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    1. Correct_Gift_9479 on

      The future of gaming everyone. Thank you PlayStation fans for the future of gaming.

    2. 😑

      Edit: Sony ponies really downvoting me 🤣 y’all would eat shit if Sony told you to.

    3. PuckishRogue00 on

      I mean unless they pay people off I feel like this wouldn’t go in well for them.

    4. RegrettableDeed on

      We *know* this. That’s not the issue at play here and they’re too focused on the wrong part of the argument to realize.

    5. TerrifiedRedneck on

      Slightly misleading headline.
      Sony want to show that they are telling you upfront that it’s a revocable license purchase, not a permanent purchase.
      Which anyone with half a brain would know by reading the TOS or terms of the product they’re spending money on.

      Sony’s biggest hurdle here, will be the army of mindless idiots that don’t read the conditions

    6. Well, you can either criticize it unnecessarily, or make the system more user-friendly. But Sony is unfortunately quite stupid, and I think that will backfire on them eventually.

    7. They’ve already proven you shouldn’t buy any more Sony consoles. Spent last gen dunking on Xbox for exactly the same reason and then became the same thing 

    8. stonawithabona on

      Hopefully this just adds fuel to the fire for more people en masse supporting physical media release.

    9. Shit…so if buying isn’t owning then pirating technically isn’t stealing?

      If people want to pirate games so the big billion dollar company’s don’t get any money then that’s not bad right?

      If we don’t own our digital games then why should we purchase and keep feeding the system that is harming us? They really should understand they are biting the hand that is feeding them.

    10. I understand that when we “buy” a fully digital copy of anything (video games, e-books, movies, shows, etc), we are not really owning the digital version. It’s an unlimited long-term rental and our access to it can be revoked at any time.

      Where I think the lawsuit has merit is its argument. It doesn’t say “we’re buying”, because we’re not, but it says “Sony is misleading”. And yes, that is correct. By labeling long-term rentals as a purchase or a buy, they’re misleading their customers into believing that they actually own the content, whereas they don’t.

      It’s not just Sony that is guilty of this practice. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and all others that lease any kind of digital media for the long term should alter their naming practices and stop misleading people.

    11. We already know this. Going to court to prove the point just makes you look worse than you already do.

    12. CurryMVPGOAT30 on

      Why the fuck do they even care? If they take someone’s licenses away or revoke them on mass for certain games it’s not like someone will buy them again later?