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[–] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Playstation keeps reminding us that digital ownership is not ownership.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago

Obligatory if buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t stealing

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Yep. Rental is the more accurate term.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. Digital ownership is very convenient. Sony's model is loanership or something

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's all loanership, no matter which platform.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

...and what you buy in a DRM-free form.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"You will own nothing and be happy"

Except they forgot the "be happy" part.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's because they don't care about that part. Others being happy doesn't buy them a private jet. Selling the illusion of ownership very much does.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

In this case. But if you owned the keys to a room in a public accessible vault, you could properly own and have access to it.

Since its public, not even Sony could take it away.