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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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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Piracy doesn't fit the definition of stealing, because the owners still have the property.

[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s literally wrong. If I stole all your personal data from your laptop, you’d still have it.

Companies steal trade secrets from each other all the time. That doesn’t mean the knowledge just leaves the other company.

Stop making up definitions and just accept that it’s stealing. Just because it’s stealing doesn’t make it wrong.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you copied all my personal data from my laptop, I'd still have it.

If you stole it I wouldn't.

Companies steal trade secrets from each other all the time.

If you copy a secret then it is no longer a secret, so something has changed for the original owner.

Stop making up definitions and just accept that it’s stealing.

You are the one changing the definition of stealing to try and apply it to piracy.

stealing /ˈstiːlɪŋ/ noun

the action or offence of taking another person's property without permission or legal right and without intending to return it; theft.

[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We are just going to have to disagree then. If you don’t think non-physical items can be stolen then this conversation is pointless.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Oh yes. Non-physical items can be XXXX.

We are just disagreeing on the word, not the action. I don't believe traditional words (like stolen) are 100% transferable to the digital world.