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Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. (www.cbr.com)
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[โ€“] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a license to own a copy of the game because you're not buying the actual game.

A license is ownership. That's how all software has always worked, same as music and movies.

What remains to be seen is if courts will enforce the ownership in the light of the anti-consumer practices by publishers and developers removing people's access to that which they have purchased.

This is a great video explaining everything from the guy who started Stop Killing Games.

[โ€“] Remy@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

I think if the license is revocable, then you never really own even a copy.

I only fully trust licenses that use wording like: "All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated conditions are met. " (from GPLv3) "Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the Work and such Derivative Works in Source or Object form." (from ApacheV2)