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Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos (thegamepost.com)
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Sony is begging you: please forget about concord

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[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fuck that, when I bought Chrono Trigger for the SNES, I owned that game. I still own that game. Nintendo has not broken into my home to rescind my license to a physical cartridge that I purchased.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 16 points 3 days ago

Legally speaking, you own the physical cartridge, but you only own a license to the software on the cartridge.

Practically speaking, no one will break into your house to control what you do with the cartridge.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

You’ve never owned Chrono Trigger.

Sorry, another way in which the world was a lie.

But as the other person replying said, with physical media they’d have to break into your house; probably not happening without them wining some kind of devastating lawsuit against you.

Anyway the point we’re all making by pointing out this seemingly pedantic distinction is that digital media is sold in the same way physical was (just, without the need to transport a physical object to provide access to the media); this is what allows media companies to now take advantage. Whether it’s losing all your “owned” movies when the PS3 store shut down, or your games being “stolen” when Ubisoft shuts down the license server, etc.

Laws haven’t caught up because this transition happened gradually and without such poor practices; and now through regulatory capture will largely be ignored.

It’s a class war and they’re winning, even though they have no idea what the consequences will be as long as they get to live in opulence and control for now.