There is a class-action lawsuit against Sony claiming that it doesn?t
make it clear, when clicking buttons marked ?Buy? and ?Purchase? while
paying for PlayStation games, that in fact the customer is buying
nothing resembling a property right, just a limited, revocable licence
to play the game.

Sony wants the suit thrown out on the grounds that ?reasonable?
customers would not be misled into believing that they own what they
buy.

To counter that, a group called the Consumer Rights Wiki has compiled
a list of instances, up to 44 long and counting, where Sony does quite
clearly say that buyers ?own? what they buy.

<https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/consumer-rights-wiki-documents-at-least-44-instances-in-which-sony-says-you-own-your-games-project-is-direct-assault-on-sonys-claim-in-recent-ownership-lawsuit>

The fundamental issue itself isn?t new; what?s new is it is coming to
a head now that Sony wants to do away with the sale of physical media,
leaving buyers with nothing they can call their own, if and when the
company should decide to make a product simply disappear, as it has
done in the past.

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Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

There is a class-action lawsuit against Sony claiming that it doesn?t
make it clear, when clicking buttons marked ?Buy? and ?Purchase? while
paying for PlayStation games, that in fact the customer is buying
nothing resembling a property right, just a limited, revocable licence
to play the game.

Sony wants the suit thrown out on the grounds that ?reasonable?
customers would not be misled into believing that they own what they
buy.

To counter that, a group called the Consumer Rights Wiki has compiled
a list of instances, up to 44 long and counting, where Sony does quite clearly say that buyers ?own? what they buy.

<https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/consumer-rights-wiki-documents-at-least-44-instances-in-which-sony-says-you-own-your-games-project-is-direct-assault-on-sonys-claim-in-recent-ownership-lawsuit>

The fundamental issue itself isn?t new; what?s new is it is coming to
a head now that Sony wants to do away with the sale of physical media, leaving buyers with nothing they can call their own, if and when the
company should decide to make a product simply disappear, as it has
done in the past.

Notice that Sony does nothing to assure people that they won't
"disappear" their games, but is relentlessly focused elsewhere in the
lawsuit.

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On 2026-09-13, Lane W wrote:

Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

There is a class-action lawsuit against Sony claiming that it doesn?t
make it clear, when clicking buttons marked ?Buy? and ?Purchase? while
paying for PlayStation games, that in fact the customer is buying
nothing resembling a property right, just a limited, revocable licence
to play the game.

Sony wants the suit thrown out on the grounds that ?reasonable?
customers would not be misled into believing that they own what they
buy.

To counter that, a group called the Consumer Rights Wiki has compiled
a list of instances, up to 44 long and counting, where Sony does quite
clearly say that buyers ?own? what they buy.

<https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/consumer-rights-wiki-documents-at-least-44-instances-in-which-sony-says-you-own-your-games-project-is-direct-assault-on-sonys-claim-in-recent-ownership-lawsuit>

The fundamental issue itself isn?t new; what?s new is it is coming to
a head now that Sony wants to do away with the sale of physical media,
leaving buyers with nothing they can call their own, if and when the
company should decide to make a product simply disappear, as it has
done in the past.

Notice that Sony does nothing to assure people that they won't
"disappear" their games, but is relentlessly focused elsewhere in the lawsuit.

It's perhaps worth mentioning that this is Sony. So anyone expecting
good will or reasonable intents from Sony better gear up for
disappointment.

These are the people who insisted in selling non-CD-DA "audio CDs", that required a Windows (according to wiki, on some versions MacOS would do
too?) system and which installed malware. Malware in which Sony
committed copyright and GPL violations.

Massive overengineering for pure evil, privacy violations and possibly
causing wide damage by installing malware, instead of using CD-DA...

<https://enwp.org/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal>

--
Nuno Silva

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