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Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games (games.gg)
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The relevant section is blunt. "The Software is licensed to you, not sold," the EULA states. "You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and personal license to play or use the Software for your private, non-commercial use on the system or device it was intended for."

The terms also restrict renting, modifying, or obtaining games through unauthorised means. Nothing in there is new, technically. Sony's EULA has always said this. The timing is what makes it land differently right now.

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[–] Hexagon@feddit.it 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What buying was supposed to be: owning

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

And if buying isnt owning, that means you're paying 70+ dollars to rent a game that can be taken away from you at any time.. with no refund or recourse.

Would anyone be stupid enough to rent a game for 70+ dollars? especially under those conditions?

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca -5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

But you've never owned movies or games. Purchasing let's go really far back VHS gave you a license to watch the movie. Always has been this way.

[–] Worstdriver@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Coming from that era myself, buying a VHS tape absolutely gave you ownership of that copy of the movie. Same with music, which is why homemade mixtapes were such a popular and permitted thing.

Studios didn't like it, but no one went after the guy with the little vinyl briefcase of 100 different mixtapes for every sort of occasion.