Don't buy PlayStation, got it.

obtaining games through unauthorised means

If games are going to have DRM, collect our data through unauthorized means, and be randomly taken away without our authorization, then exactly what social contract are we upholding?

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn;t theft.

AS A CONSUMER YOU MAY HAVE RIGHTS UNDER APPLICABLE LOCAL LAWS THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED, LIMITED OR CHANGED. THOSE RIGHTS TAKE PRIORITY OVER ANYTHING IN THESE TERMS.

So they're saying we should write to our law making representatives and have that changed?

Sounds like a fucking great idea to me.

If you pirate the games, you actually own them and they can't take them away from you. Funny how that works.

Sad really. Been a PlayStation fan since I was a kid. PS1 on Christmas w/ Metal Gear Solid is easily one of my favorite core memories. As with everything else in modern era, these companies have really lost their bearing and the spark / soul that made them cherished through most of our lifetimes.

I've switched to PC gaming long ago so I'm not really in their target audience anymore, but when the day comes that I want a machine for the living room it'll certainly not be a PS.

Then stop calling the button purchase and call it rent.

They are going to stop using 'buy' and 'own' in their advertising then, right?

Luckily the EULA doesn't apply when obtaining it through unauthorized means since the EULA would never have been accepted upon a purchase that didn't happen.

(It is though copyright infringement, but you still have more ownership over the bytes on your own disk since DRM would have been removed or neutered)

if buying isn't owning the piracy isn't stealing.

license to play or use the Software for your private, non-commercial use

Does "non-commercial" mean all those people who make money by playing games on a monetized livestream, posting monetized gameplay videos, or playing e-sports for prizes are filthy pirates?

Sony can go fuck themselves. Honestly if they are going to make purchases this restrictive then I guess I won't buy them anymore.

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Reminder that the same EULA applies to the software on a physical disk, too. The difference is you will still have the disk if they decide to revoke your ability to run that disk.

Sony’s EULA has always said this.

EULA's have been saying it since before discs were invented...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement

If any EULA didn't say that, everyone who bought it could sell their own copies for $1 less then they bought it. Eventually the price of every piece of software no matter what it was, would be the hosting costs based on sheer size.

What's wild is so many people never knew this, and are hyper fixated on the wrong part.

Back in the day updates just weren't really a thing. There may be additional software (DLC except you bought it physical) in between editions, but for the most part the program was the program. So as long as you kept your install discs, you could always install that program.

That is what you were buying, the physical means to install the program, and that has always been just a license and definitely not duplicatable. Selling used games/software was valid because you're handing over the physical means to install/run that software.

The parallel would be selling a "used digital game" and it disappears from your library. And Sony could even take 10% or whatever as a fee, even tho it would cost money.

Consumers could trust that any used game was 100% the exact same as new tho, there's be zero advantage to every buying new if a single used license was cheaper.

That would be free market capitalist software, but the oligarchs don't want.

It says "limited" but does not define what limited is, so you legally paid for nothing guaranteed. You just give them money but they are obligated to give you nothing.

The only solace is at least the majority of AAA games coming out now are so ass that i don't want them anyway.

One thing I'm sure is that I'll never buy a Playstation again. Even if they backtrack.

I'm so glad I never got a PS5. I sure as shit won't now.

This is why the stop killing games movement exists

Just a reminder that this goes for the OS on the PlayStation too.

You don't really own hardware that you don't control either*.

* yeah, you do own the hardware, but if you can't use it without a software license is it really yours?

True. I don't own any Sony games. But that's because I don't buy Sony games in the first place. Not because I got rug pulled.

Arr me hearties.

Pretty much all software EULA's are like this. Anything you "buy a license for" certainly. Same as it ever was.

To the seas. How does this conflict with the digital media copyright protection acts

Should change the "buy" button to "rent"

Steam users: First time?