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[–] 7 points 4 months ago*

No no no.

You don't get how bad this is.

Fucking over people for a smidgen more margin would be bad,... but this... this is a power play, a naked power play.

It isn't even about money, because when you do what they just did... the definition of money, property, what a 'sale' is... that all changes.

They're changing the rules that the whole game is played by, not just acting cynically within those rules.

Its a brutal and naked demonstration that a corporation can just decide what property rights are, how they work for, what, like, around a billion people?

This is a what the prologue or prequel to your favorite cyberpunk story looks like.

This is how you set a precedent for digital property rights... in a primarily digitized economic system.

They're just straight up telling you they own you, and every appliance or car or whatever mfg'er will point at Sony as the precedent.

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