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

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.

  • dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    We are just going to have to disagree then. If you don’t think non-physical items can be stolen then this conversation is pointless.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Oh yes. Non-physical items can be XXXX.

      We are just disagreeing on the word, not the action. I don’t believe traditional words (like stolen) are 100% transferable to the digital world.