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.

  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    It’s definitely stealing

    It’s definitely denying money to someone who is asking to be paid.

    But since they, nor anyone else is affected by the copying activity I don’t think it can be called stealing.

    How about

    “Fuck the corps, they don’t wanna play fair I’ll steal use their shit and they won’t see a penny”

        • dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          That’s literally wrong. If I stole all your personal data from your laptop, you’d still have it.

          Companies steal trade secrets from each other all the time. That doesn’t mean the knowledge just leaves the other company.

          Stop making up definitions and just accept that it’s stealing. Just because it’s stealing doesn’t make it wrong.

          • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            2 days ago

            If you copied all my personal data from my laptop, I’d still have it.

            If you stole it I wouldn’t.

            Companies steal trade secrets from each other all the time.

            If you copy a secret then it is no longer a secret, so something has changed for the original owner.

            Stop making up definitions and just accept that it’s stealing.

            You are the one changing the definition of stealing to try and apply it to piracy.

            stealing /ˈstiːlɪŋ/ noun

            the action or offence of taking another person’s property without permission or legal right and without intending to return it; theft.

            • dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              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
                1·
                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.