At least in theory theres a California law that stops them. It’s not enforced but it exists.
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Vertelleus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
CONTENT LICENSE AND RESTRICTIONS
10.1. All intellectual property rights subsisting in PSN Content, including all software, data, services, and other content subsisting in or used in connection with PSN, the Online ID and access to content and hardware used in connection with PSN belong to SIE, its affiliates, and its licensors. Use of the terms “own,” “ownership”, “purchase,” “sale,” “sold,” “sell,” “rent” or “buy” in this Agreement or in connection with PSN Content does not mean or imply any transfer of ownership of any content, data or software or any intellectual property rights from SIE, its affiliates or its licensors to any user or third party.
Source: www.playstation.com/…/terms-of-use-march-2025
It’s worse, when any company can define what these terms mean.
StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today 3 days ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
i mean, do you live in california? if no, that’s why it’s not being enforced for you.
StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today 2 days ago
I don’t but people have tested it
SanicHegehog@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This isn’t what that means.
The paragraph refers to the “intellectual property rights”, meaning you don’t own the God of War franchise, nor can you reprint discs, or anything else with the IP as a result of your buying (renting? licensing?) the game.
stevestevesteve@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s “OR intellectual property”. Which means it refers to more than just IP to me.
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ownership does not mean ownership…
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It’s more “regulatory capture” than it is capitalism. In any system where there are supposed to be people who protect the rights of the people, if those organizations are prevented from doing their jobs, you get stuff like this.
The USSR, for example, was famous for its “new word formulation” after the revolution, which George Orwell referenced as “newspeak” in 1984. I mean, the official Soviet newspaper was named “Pravda” meaning “Truth” when it was famous for publishing propaganda that was clearly untrue.