unglueclass23@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agoPlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Gameswww.polygon.comexternal-linkmessage-square117linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareCouldbealeotard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 hours agoIf you buy a CD with software and it gets shipped to your house, you own the disc, not the software. It’s always been this way, we are just now living in a world where the technology exists to take the software away from you after you paid.
minus-squarejsnfwlr@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 hours agoCorrect, I owned the license to it. It wasn’t revokable though.
minus-squareMateo@mastodon.unolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 hours ago@Couldbealeotard @jsnfwlr sure, but you were also able to sell it eventually.
If you buy a CD with software and it gets shipped to your house, you own the disc, not the software. It’s always been this way, we are just now living in a world where the technology exists to take the software away from you after you paid.
Correct, I owned the license to it. It wasn’t revokable though.
@Couldbealeotard @jsnfwlr sure, but you were also able to sell it eventually.