This excuses piracy.

And whenever I want to pay for a game, I will do it through GOG.

Stuff like this drives the motivation behind console modders.

Then their 'Buy' and 'Purchase' buttons are false advertising. 'Rent' is the word they're looking for.

If the button said "Buy" or "Purchase", ownership of that item is transferred (obviously not the IP itself). After you buy it, the supreme court has weighed in that you can make your own backups of "media" previously so Sony can fuck right off.

Oh no, how will this affect my offline-PS3 and it's offline games?? :o

Then, I purchase no games, which I cannot own anyway. Good riddance. I stopped gaming pretty much all the time.

Remind me to pirate sony games.

This is why PC gaming is more superior to home gaming consoles that are riddled with DRM. At least you own digital copies of games that you buy on there.

If labeling buttons "buy" is illegal when it's not buying to own but subscriptions, "pre-order" should be illegal too. "Ordering a license" doesn't make much sense between expectation and differentiation to (owning) products.

If buttons are labeled "Rent" and "Schedule Rent", do you think it would have an impact? Significant impact?

I bought the first Queen album on vinyl. Then 8-track. Then cassette. Then compact disc. I finally pirated the digital version. I owned every piece of media that the album came on with the exception of the pirated copy (which I could have digitized from my compact disc). In not one case has a company ever came into my home and said "You have to give that back, but no refund though". This makes no sense.

This matches my experience exactly.

Aaarrrrggghhhh!

I stopped buying consoles years ago but Sony can gargle my balls with choco milk

Optimistic me thinks they are bringing PS store/library to pc and this is needed. Optimistic me is barely holding on.

Do players even own PlayStation consoles? Sony arbitrarily restrict what operating system run on hardware people buy from them.

The small operators feel this one first, every single time.

I dont own a sony or any other console but i dont understand one thing here.

As far as i know, dvd discs and cd-s had about 4GB memory max if am not mistaking. It was long time since we stoped using them.

So how can modern games that are like 200GB in size fit on any cd..? 🤔