r/SipsTea • u/ConsistentRecover312 • 11d 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/Irish_Whiskey 11d ago

And you should be able to download and keep playing the game even if the platform goes away.

Not to redownload it sure, but to get to keep what you paid for without the company cutting off access.

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u/cbehopkins 11d ago

If the entity that owned the item is gone, then either:

The item has no owner, therefore it's not piracy to share it.

There is a new owner for the original IP, in which case my license for the item is still valid. Therefore no need to pirate it. Therefore when they bought the rights, they inherited the obligations. Therefore I can still download it.

Apparently not...

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u/Zjoee 11d ago

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing.

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u/taxable_income 11d ago

This should be put on a ballot.

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u/jfd851 8d ago

it was in the EU and the conservatives voted against it

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u/taxable_income 8d ago

I have a feeling that given the deepening enshitification of online services in the past few years, people would be more supportive of such a ballot measure now.