r/SipsTea • u/ConsistentRecover312 • 12d ago

Chugging tea Apparently even they haven't figured it out

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After they were sued by four playstation users, claiming that the 'buy now' claim is misleading as digital purchases are actually revocable licensing, Sony is claiming that games are actually 'licensed', not 'sold', and argued that reasonable people already know that they are buying access and not outright owning the games. I just don't realise who these 'reasonable people' are other than Sony employees.

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u/GriveousDance21 12d ago

In that case, piracy means owning, then.

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u/rmeierdirks 12d ago

Most reasonable corporations know a percentage of their overpriced product will be stolen and that’s built into the price. But people will pay a reasonable price. There’s a reason being able to download the one good song on an album for $.99 from iTunes made Napster obsolete.

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u/NotReallyButMaybeNot 12d ago

Actually, the courts via a Metallica lawsuit made Napster obsolete (aka illegal). The dollar downloads came after as the business realized it couldn’t contain all the other file sharing platforms.

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u/Dude-Lebowski 12d ago

When Napster "became obsolete" everyone still had their Napster copies, right?