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PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games
www.polygon.com/sony-digital-games-lawsuit-california/Replying to @unglueclass23@programming.dev
granted limited access to software that can be revoked at any moment.
If it is that, then it may not be called a purchase. Simple.
Replying to @Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
It should be called renting (or something similar). But then, that would likely mean an expectation of a lower price tag and they wouldn’t want that. Who would rent a game for $80? Even if the rental is a decade or longer. Probably people out there that would and currently do this.
Replying to @EliteCloneMike@lemmy.zip
But then, that would likely mean an expectation of a lower price tag and they wouldn’t want that.
In other words, they want to commit fraud with impunity. Because that’s what lying about the difference between a sale and a rental is: fraud on Sony’s part.