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[–] 3 points 3 months ago

This isn't an isolated incident. This is an across-the-board take over of humanity by corporations in every aspect of life, from medicine, to housing, to agriculture. The entire system is corrupt and needs to be destroyed and re-built.

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    [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    In the interest of balance, I guess I'll nerf the money I give to Sony.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    They sold disc drive ps5s at a markup, I have no idea how this is allowed mid generation.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    They're royally shooting themselves in the foot with this one. There's an extra level of irony given that it's in the same year as the Halo 1 Remake, aka the game that carried the dumpster fire of a console that was the original xbox.

    Like I have zero incitive to buy a PS6. Especially after seeing how long the Ps4 stayed relevant (i have friends who still play theirs).

    When it's time to upgrade I'll probably turn my PlayStation into emulators and retire as a 'contemporary gamer'. Turns out making me wait 10 years between game releases just made me appreciate playing older games more than paying for new ones.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    The physical disc doesn't change the fact that you don't own a license to the content otherwise than access through that medium.

    A digital copy, with a fair license agreement, you could be able to stream or download or access this content on something besides an easily breakable disc.

    But people are ducking retarded. Especially gamers. You live to be manipulated.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    ...the fuck you on about? That's how ownership of physical media works? You have the thing till the thing breaks, wears out, decays, or more importantly, you give it away or sell it for the next person to OWN it.

    A digital copy, with a fair license agreement, means shit all if the company..oh, let's say has license agreements run out, or has a falling out with some studio and pulls their products from their store, and your library. All of a sudden, you don't own anything really, do you? Can't play that cool demo of a horror game because Sony pulled it. You don't even own what was a free download. But if that shit was on a disc?

    Hope that clears things up a bit for ya.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    You don't own the data. You own a piece of plastic and some foil. The foil is pitted with data. You don't own that data. You do own a mostly worthless piece of plastic.

    If you don't think they can revoke your access to the data on "your media" you haven't been paying attention.

    There's plenty of gaming consoles out there that never went online to get there license agreement for their DVD player or Blu-ray players and they can't play Jack shit. There's plenty of drives out there that are region locked so if your media isn't from that region you're not going to play it.

    Of course the same applies to digital media and things like YouTube and other streaming services.

    Again, you don't own shit except a worthless piece of plastic and a little fragile bit of foil with all that juicy data.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    What it does is that it moves the license management from a physical thing you own and can trade for, to an account-based digital license that is centrally managed by the platform owners.

    What happens when the platform reaches its end of life, or if an account is stolen, has a different outcome based on physical vs digital.

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