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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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[–] -4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You can do a bullshit fork and then sell it, but if you owned it you could sell the exact same code with zero changes

To prove your point you’d need that example: an open source program that you can sell for profit with zero changes.

You can, though? If you find someone stupid enough to buy it, that is.

All you have to do is change the name and remove any trademarked branding from it.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    All you have to do is change the name and remove any trademarked branding from it.

    So...

    They have to change it to legally sell it?

    Then they didn't own it.

    Although, I guess thanks for explaining what a "bullshit fork" is, I thought that wouldn't need explaining on here to be honest

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