Comment on Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 2 weeks agoEvery piece of software is the same.
Comment on Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 2 weeks agoEvery piece of software is the same.
TehPers@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
This. Software is only ever licensed to you, never given.
What’s important isn’t that it’s licensed (paid software has to be because it’s trivially reproducible), but what the terms of the license state. I’ve read game EULAs that, to my surprise, allowed you to transfer your license once to somebody else (along with instructions on how to do it). I’ve also read shitty EULAs, which is the vast majority of them.
The biggest scam is when licenses can be unilaterally changed, which is sadly most of them.
From a game preservation standpoint, the license should be nonrevocable, perpetual, and the game should be DRM-free. Using Steam games as an example, Steam is a DRM, but many games can be played without Steam by simply deleting the Steam API library from the game directory. Those would be playable regardless of whether Steam even exists anymore.