It effects the poorest people most, which should be the reason everyone hates it, no matter your personal choice of media.

Buying used games at the pawn shop, borrowing from your library or friend, etc is right and good.

Publishers doing day 1 patches, etc is not an excuse to justify abolishing access.

The resale market is precisely what they want to kill. Can't sell a game twice if one copy can be played by two people. Can't profit from nostalgia with a retro re-release (that will inevitably be shittier than the original) if the original retro game can still be played.

At least it's in the article: in the case of Sony everything is tied to hardware. You can't control the hardware or use it in novel ways. It's just a bad choice, disc or no disc.

May as well say

It doesnt “threaten” the market. It eliminates it. Of course, that’s been a goal of all publishers across all media for decades. Sony is just the first games publisher to take the lesson from textbook publishers and eliminate physical media that a buyer actually owns.