cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74416381
The relevant section is blunt. “The Software is licensed to you, not sold,” the EULA states. “You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and personal license to play or use the Software for your private, non-commercial use on the system or device it was intended for.”
The terms also restrict renting, modifying, or obtaining games through unauthorised means. Nothing in there is new, technically. Sony’s EULA has always said this. The timing is what makes it land differently right now.
When you bought a music record I’m pretty sure you bought the record, not a license.
I’m pretty sure that’s not what you got when you bought a record. When you buy a record you have to abide by copyright law, yes, but beyond that, you can do whatever you want. Sell it, rent it out, lend it out fo free, give it away. You could make a personal copy to play on a tape machine. And the record company couldn’t come take it away or alter it later.