Sony's unsolicited EULA email tells PlayStation users their digital games are licensed, not owned, arriving just as the #PSBlackout boycott kicks off.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74416381

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.

  • FluidBeef@quokk.auEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    This is why I’ve never paid above half price for an online store game once. (Also all video games are digital, so I guess he’s saying we don’t own even old carts as the means to play them will one day stop working)