• mschae@discuss.mschae23.de
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    10 days ago

    Licenses are a copyright concept, but this isn’t a copyright issue. You’re buying a copy of a game, and you should own the copy after the purchase (which of course, means the company who sold it to you shouldn’t be able to revoke your access at will). That’s the part that sony is apparently not willing to do. But copyright-wise, it would be a license either way, so I don’t think it’s a good idea to confuse people with only tangentially related concepts here.

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      10 days ago

      licenses are a very IT central idea.

      I have to buy licenses of Windows, Acrobat, etc… It lines up with what Sony is trying to say too

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      10 days ago

      copyright(n.) c. 1729, “the exclusive right to make and sell copies of an intellectual production,”

      license(v.) c. 1400, “grant formal authorization to do what would be illegal to do without it,”

      Yeah… I don’t think you are right about that…

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        10 days ago

        I don’t really see what that has to do with what I said? Unless you are saying that licenses exist for other things than copyright (in response to “licenses are a copyright concept”). That’s definitely true, I oversimplified to make my point, but I’m also pretty sure that copyright licenses are the only kind of license that are relevant here in the first place.