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.

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    license to play or use the Software for your private, non-commercial use

    Does “non-commercial” mean all those people who make money by playing games on a monetized livestream, posting monetized gameplay videos, or playing e-sports for prizes are filthy pirates?

    • deathbird@mander.xyzEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      By the plain text reading, yes. Would be nice to see PS streams fall to 0, but people ignore the terms and Sony doesn’t enforce them until they want to. Doesn’t matter what any of this BS says until they drag you in front of a judge… I mean private arbitrator… and say “look, plain as day, subsection 18.XXVI.xix D(13a) on page 47 where it clearly says we get to move our VP into his spare bedroom and shoot his dog”

      We seriously are overdue for putting limits on so-called consumer contracts.

      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        Yeah they leave those non commercial lines in there so they have the “legal backing” to shut down anyone that’s causing them problems.

      • Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Is that the subsection that is in the locked filing cabinet with the sign reading ‘beware of leopard’?