Buying is owning, though. In this case, you own a license to access Sony’s media on several conditions.
That’s not real ownership. If they can come in and take the stuff you bought away at any time, you don’t own it. If you own something, you should be allowed to make a copy of it and share it with your friends.
You own a limited access license. It’s not a hard concept to understand.
(Media) corporations want to screw you over and extract as much money as possible out of you, it’s not a hard concept to understand.
I agree. What you’re saying doesn’t contradict me at all.
The arguments you provided earlier are the exact same arguments a media corporation would make. I know that technically you own a restrictive af license to watch the content, but in reality, it’s pretty hard to call this ownership. Corporations hate the concept of people owning stuff. If they can sell this restrictive garbage as ownership, they can set a new standard and use it to further destroy ownership of media. The saddest part is that it works. Best Buy already plans to stop selling Blu Rays. This is the beginning of the destruction of freedom and media ownership. We really shouldn’t be arguing over this minor BS, instead, we should all agree that piracy is absolutely justified when media corporations keep getting greedier and greedier.
Description isn’t advocacy. I’m not “making an argument” because there’s no argument to be made. It’s a fact that Sony only sells limited access licenses on the Playstation Store. Yeah, we can both agree that it’s BS and pirating is better, etc., but putting out misinformation that people ever owned that media to begin with accomplishes nothing.
Two things can simultaneously be wrong.
Interestingly enough in this case only one thing is wrong:
You
ROFL… whatever you say kiddo.
I think what they’re saying is the meme makes logical sense even if both things are wrong. The contrapositive (a logical equivalent) is “if piracy is stealing, then buying is owning”. That’s a statement that I bet you agree with and it means the same thing.
Piracy is stealing. Period.
Nothing is stolen in digital piracy.
Cool. So developers should just stop paying their programmers because some random kid on the internet thinks it should all be free for the taking.
Then “buying is owning”. I think you think I’m making a disagreement when I’m just trying to clarify the statement.
Because one is true, doesn’t mean the other is. As I said- BOTH can be wrong.
Cool. Then you agree with the meme
Again, BOTH can be wrong.
No. You’re wrong. It cantn’t.
So, it is good what they did?
I once lost a game from my ps library, just vanished. I still had the saves in my hard drive. So I called PlayStation who said it could have been a network glitch from the update, but since they lost any record of the purchase and I had made it years earlier, so I deleted the email, I never got my game back. That’s why I despise digital Games. Sony can’t walk in my house and take my physical game, but you break a rule or there’s a glitch and suddenly Sony can steal back every game you bought
Well yeah, this behavior was completely foreseeable. Obviously you could take to the high seas, but if you want to legally own a copy of media, buy a physical copy.
Yeah. Its worth remembering that tv/movies tend to have MUCH stricter distribution rights. Generally speaking, a purchased game is available for the lifetime of the service (whether it is playable depends on backend stuff). Whereas, if Discovery says “Get our sexy walrus off your service” you lose it instantly*
Its one of the reasons that I generally don’t see the point in buying “digital media” outside of special circumstances. I am either going to “rent” it (either pay a rental fee or have a subscription) or get the blu-ray (… if available).
*: Fun “fact”: This is speculated to be why Sony’s backwards compatibility is such a mess. During the PS1 and PS2 era, they likely were making distribution deals closer to music/movies than the (modern) video games. That is why you have such insanity like the digital version of Tomba 2 (I think) only being playable on a PSP, not a Vita or a PS3. And other weird ass messes because of how distribution rights and contracts were passed around. Whereas Microsoft “started” with software licensing agreements and have a LOT more flexibility for the XBOX/PS2 era.
If it’s not on your hard drive it’s not yours.
We all thought it was, and they sold us on it. Now we see the truth.
