I don't think anyone expects that they are buying the exclusive copyright license for reproduction. People just want to own their copies. You know like with books.

We want this for our games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

Yep so all the piracy that goes around isn't illegal either right?

Oh, right, so it's all just one copy that we're all sharing, then? Here's an idea in that case: let's cut out the middleman, and I'll share my copy of it with all of you for an agreed price.
Free is my first, best and final offer.

If I can't own the game, then you're not getting my money. Piracy is the only way to actually own it.

if only one person can buy GTA 6, how can more than one person rent GTA 6?

Oh really? Then it's not a store, and it's not a sale. It's a leasing office and a lease.

... wait. That's not obvious. If it was obvious, it wouldn't be a "Buy now" it would be like a "Purchase License."

Because thats literally how the rest of the software industry works.

They dont need to keep trying to convice me to never buy another Sony/ Rockstar product. They keep giving more reasons though.

That's the nice thing in digital; i own a lossless copy of it. Without your DRM, btw.

The solution seems easy enough, don't buy or rent anything from Sony until the issue is resolved.

This is fixable if consumers band together. Nobody needs to game on a PlayStation (or play GTA on PC/PlayStation), we need water, food, shelter not GTA6

Wish people could actually have the willpower to effectively boycott anything enough to later. Happens with iPhone every year, they bitch and moan about it being the hand phone, then go buy one.

I'm 37 I won't challenge that, I don't buy digital games until they're at least 50% off. Most of the time I only buy digital games when they're 75-90% off.

Now Sony, Nintendo and Steam (mostly Sony/Nintendo) are misunderstanding me. I've got so many games to play, so many physical games. I don't need the latest EA trash, I don't need the newest boring uninspired PlayStation exclusive.

I've got games for many many months to play. I've got so many SNES, PS1 and PS2 games to play.

And when I run out I've got so many books to read.

American Sony can chortle my balls. I miss PS1, PS2 and PS3 Japanese Sony

Following that logic, pirating software is quite all right, no one is stupid enough to believe someone loses if they make a copy.

A digital file is a physical object and you can make copies for individuals to use. I don't believe the Sony lawyers are stupid enough to believe otherwise.

So by that logic, I am the only owner of a 2016 Subaru Impreza in the entire world.

Until they change every storefront to say rent instead of buy/purchase/etc I will believe it.

Do they want piracy? Because that's how you make it morally legitimate.

Right, like, how "owning" a car means that you need to purchase the entire means of production required to produce said car, including all patents and trademarks.

This guy is somehow multi-rail drifting his pseudo-capitalist argument with like, a cartoon version of communism. It's like he dropped acid and decided to become Frankenstein's Economist.

If that's so obvious, then why not state it clearly on the packaging?

So when we bought games on disc, who was the one person who owned the game? John Sony San, who lives at the top of Sony Tower in Sony Plaza?

Lol this weasel logic they'll use to justify their petty greed is ridiculous...

Ah yes, because I own my pair of jeans, or my hoodie, I'm the only person in the world with a pair of jeans and a hoodie...

That's not what ownership of digital copies means, fuckshits.

If we don’t own games then we should just rent them for a small fee and then when done, cancel service

Sony has been going to shit at LEAST ever since their fucking 2011 hack and online shutdown. Endless stupid decisions one after another. Trash.

This makes my choice to stop at the ps3 a very good choice.

Sony argues that its current customer-facing disclosures ensure that “reasonable consumers would not be misled” into believing they actually own their digital games.

They can make that argument, but I think they'll have a hard time finding evidence to support it. Judges aren't stupid, but they can be corrupt, however.

Sounds like they went to the Donald Trump school of logic.