Reminder that the same EULA applies to the software on a physical disk, too. The difference is you will still have the disk if they decide to revoke your ability to run that disk.
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2026
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Plus they can't revoke your ability to run it if you keep your PS console offline.
Let's not kid ourselves, they can make it so that your PS refuses to work if you don't connect it to the mothership periodically
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True. I don't own any Sony games. But that's because I don't buy Sony games in the first place. Not because I got rug pulled.
To the seas. How does this conflict with the digital media copyright protection acts
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Sony’s EULA has always said this.
EULA's have been saying it since before discs were invented...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement
If any EULA didn't say that, everyone who bought it could sell their own copies for $1 less then they bought it. Eventually the price of every piece of software no matter what it was, would be the hosting costs based on sheer size.
What's wild is so many people never knew this, and are hyper fixated on the wrong part.
Back in the day updates just weren't really a thing. There may be additional software (DLC except you bought it physical) in between editions, but for the most part the program was the program. So as long as you kept your install discs, you could always install that program.
That is what you were buying, the physical means to install the program, and that has always been just a license and definitely not duplicatable. Selling used games/software was valid because you're handing over the physical means to install/run that software.
The parallel would be selling a "used digital game" and it disappears from your library. And Sony could even take 10% or whatever as a fee, even tho it would cost money.
Consumers could trust that any used game was 100% the exact same as new tho, there's be zero advantage to every buying new if a single used license was cheaper.
That would be free market capitalist software, but the oligarchs don't want.
no way this is not gonna backfire for them somehow or somewho
It won't. Even with GoG, you have limited rights. This has been the same since the ps3 era.
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One thing I'm sure is that I'll never buy a Playstation again. Even if they backtrack.
I'm so glad I never got a PS5. I sure as shit won't now.
I have one and every game I own is physical, like every other console I own. Now whether the games are in a workable state in the future without access to patches is another story, but I can lend, sell, trade my games and also never use PSN again if I want. From the state of things, it looks like I won't every be buying another console and I can live with that.
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Shortly after announcing that there won't be anything else soon.