Technology

87469 readers

3359 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related news or articles.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

L3s@lemmy.world

enu@lemmy.world

technopagan@lemmy.world

L4s@lemmy.world

L3s@hackingne.ws

411

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

submitted 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

68 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I will say at least with those you can still sell them, trade them, whatever. Unlike digital games.

The difference is more that they'll be useless in 25 years or whenever Nintendo pulls the plug on the download servers.