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Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games (games.gg)
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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.

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social -1 points 4 days ago (13 children)

It’s in the EULA for every piece of software, including physical.

*laughs in open source*

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -4 points 4 days ago (12 children)

The Service provides users of Ubuntu with a free subscription to use the Service on up to five physical Ubuntu systems with unlimited number of VMs or containers for the eligible Ubuntu LTS versions as designated by Canonical.

https://canonical.com/legal/ubuntu-pro/personal

Why would you assume to own software if you don't even pay to use it?

You can do a bullshit fork and then sell it, but if you owned it you could sell the exact same code with zero changes

To prove your point you'd need that example: an open source program that you can sell for profit with zero changes.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social -4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

You can do a bullshit fork and then sell it, but if you owned it you could sell the exact same code with zero changes

To prove your point you’d need that example: an open source program that you can sell for profit with zero changes.

You can, though? If you find someone stupid enough to buy it, that is.

All you have to do is change the name and remove any trademarked branding from it.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

All you have to do is change the name and remove any trademarked branding from it.

So...

They have to change it to legally sell it?

Then they didn't own it.

Although, I guess thanks for explaining what a "bullshit fork" is, I thought that wouldn't need explaining on here to be honest

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Here is an easier one with FOSS you could just do whatever you want on the repo. Which is not true as the maintainer manages it.

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