With the end of physical PlayStation games looming, the need for clear digital ownership rights is more pressing than ever.
For its part, Sony believes your rights are very clear: you do not own your digital games, and it’s unlikely you’re stupid enough to believe otherwise. At least, that’s roughly the argument the company’s lawyers are presenting in response to a proposed class-action lawsuit.
Sony argues that its current customer-facing disclosures ensure that “reasonable consumers would not be misled” into believing they actually own their digital games. That’s according to a Game File report (paid article link) citing an August 21 filing Sony’s lawyers made in California’s Northern District.
So by that logic, I am the only owner of a 2016 Subaru Impreza in the entire world.
I think the reasoning is that there’s only 1 master, and everything else is a copy. But that’s still pretty stupid reasoning.
But at the same time… It’s also technically true. Only 1 entity owns the game and that’s the entity that made it.
So nobody actually owns books as they are copies of a digital master.
Not true.
Some are copies of a physical master. 😌
It really puts into perspective how they actually think about it though… nobody actually thinks that way…
Nobody buying a game sits there and says oh I’m going to go buy gta6… and thinks they are buying the single master… no most people say im going to go pick up my copy of gta6… the one they want to own…
The fact they want to argue that people don’t think the thing they spent money on to own gives them some absurd right to the master single version of the game is just…
There were final prototypes of the 2016 Subaru Impreza and all the others are copies off of that.
Just admit it: I am Mr. Subaru now! /s
You made this?
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I made this.