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themachinestops@themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games

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.

games.gg/news/sony-eula-email-psblackout-boycott/
Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital GamesGAMES.GGSony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital GamesSony's unsolicited EULA email tells PlayStation users their digital games are licensed, not owned, arriving just as the #PSBlackout boycott kicks off.
dogdeanafternoon@dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca

Replying to an earlier post

It’s definitely stealing. I don’t understand why people on here can’t admit it to themselves.

My guess is people here think that stealing is wrong, no matter what. They also think that piracy is moral. Because of that, they incorrectly deduce that piracy isn’t stealing.

Look up any definition of stealing, and it always boils down to: taking something that you don’t have permission to take.

No, this isn’t limited to physical items. Companies steal our data all the time.

I think people need to shift from “Piracy isn’t stealing” to “Fuck the corps, they don’t wanna play fair I’ll steal their shit and they won’t see a penny”

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world

Replying to an earlier post

It’s definitely stealing

It’s definitely denying money to someone who is asking to be paid.

But since they, nor anyone else is affected by the copying activity I don’t think it can be called stealing.

How about

“Fuck the corps, they don’t wanna play fair I’ll steal use their shit and they won’t see a penny”

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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world

Replying to an earlier post

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.