Lee Duna to [email protected]English • 2 years agoPlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership suckswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square179fedilinkarrow-up1778arrow-down112cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish65•2 years agoPlaystation keeps reminding us that digital ownership is not ownership.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish31•2 years agoObligatory if buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t stealing
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•2 years agoYeah. Digital ownership is very convenient. Sony’s model is loanership or something
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•2 years ago“You will own nothing and be happy” Except they forgot the “be happy” part.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoThat’s because they don’t care about that part. Others being happy doesn’t buy them a private jet. Selling the illusion of ownership very much does.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-22 years agoIn this case. But if you owned the keys to a room in a public accessible vault, you could properly own and have access to it. Since its public, not even Sony could take it away.
Playstation keeps reminding us that digital ownership is not ownership.
Obligatory if buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t stealing
Yep. Rental is the more accurate term.
Yeah. Digital ownership is very convenient. Sony’s model is loanership or something
It’s all loanership, no matter which platform.
You own what you pirate
…and what you buy in a DRM-free form.
“You will own nothing and be happy”
Except they forgot the “be happy” part.
That’s because they don’t care about that part. Others being happy doesn’t buy them a private jet. Selling the illusion of ownership very much does.
In this case. But if you owned the keys to a room in a public accessible vault, you could properly own and have access to it.
Since its public, not even Sony could take it away.