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Comment on Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”

bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

This is where our lazy lawmakers need to step in and protect consumers. Make it illegal to revoke these types of licenses over greedy, lazy, exploitative business mergers and acquisitions. If corporations want to fight that, then they shouldn’t be able to “sell” digital movies or games anymore: Any time you go to “purchase” digital content, it must plainly tell you that you’re renting said content for an undetermined amount of time.

Funny how so much recent talk has emerged yet again about how companies like Microsoft want to get rid of disc drives on their next Xbox… It’s almost like companies don’t actually want you to ever truly own anything. A rent economy is toxic and rotten, and it’s infuriating that it’s literally becoming our entire economy.

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Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Companies change the contracts all the time and customers just agree to them.

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Consumer protection would help, so maybe it’s time to start voting for the people who support it.

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- ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s entirely unreasonable to assume that the average person has the time or knowledge necessary to read, comprehend and agree to every terms of service agreement shoved in their face. Legislation should reflect this fact, and there should be something similar to game and movie ratings that give an easy to understand summary of the agreement.
  
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  - wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Well said. I love everything about this agreement and the limits it inherently puts on “creative” terms in their agreements.
    
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  - Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Imagine if there was a law for making the contracts easier to understand.
    
    We’ll spy on you and sell your data to the highest bidder.
    
    When something goes wrong, it’s your fault.
    
    You can’t blame us.
    
    No money back.
    
    When in doubt, we do what Darth Vader would do.
    
    Sign here: _______
    
    Come to think of it, slot machines do tell you quite clearly how bad the odds really are, but people still dump their money on them. Why can’t we have similar honesty and clarity when it comes to contracts.
    
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- dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I want a lot of things from the US Congress, but platform planks like better consumer projection/rights just sound like easy votes for any candidate. I can’t wrap my head around why nobody is at least lying that they’ll address this.
  
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  - bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They’re probably getting paid specifically to not address this is the issue.
    
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  - Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Meanwhile, the EU is crafting all sorts of consumer protection laws just like the member countries have been doing long before even joining the union.
    
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evatronic@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Funny how so much recent talk has emerged yet again about how companies like Microsoft want to get rid of disc drives on their next Xbox… […]

While I will freely admit that the lack of a physical drive is a huge way to drive downloaded (and licensed, revokable) content controlled by the company, it’s worth noting that physical media is really not all that great a medium for transferring things like games or movies anymore. Blu-ray discs can hold, in ideal situations, around 50GB of data. A lot of games – especially AAA games, are well beyond that. I think Spider Man 2 came in at like 85GB? The internet says Hogwarts Legacy is ~75GB on XBox.

Network connectivity, and downloading content to our devices is almost certainly going to be the way a lot of the world works going forward. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be able to back our content up elsewhere, or offload it to some other device.

Your right in noting that the laws and regulations need to keep up and protect consumers’ right to the content they’ve purchased.

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- Instigate@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Then put the games onto high-storage solid-state cartridges like Nintendo does. There’s no reason to be limited by existing technology like Blu-Ray except for laziness. Hell, they could even just put an SD card reader in as the physical game tray and put games onto SD cards if they’re that lazy and don’t want to spend on R&D.
  
  Removing the capacity to have physical copies of games at all is always a bad move that is disingenuously masked with a “but the world is going all digital!” all the while knowing that this gives them greater control over things we’re supposed to own.
  
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  - v4ld1z@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Would the reading speed of those SD cards be as fast as the reading speed of Blurays? Or is the reading part of using Blurays unnecessary in the first place because most of the game is loaded onto the console itself?
    
    I imagine you could write-protect the SD cards the same way you do with Blurays, so if the question above is a non-issue, then that’d be quite a cool solution. SD cards pushing terabytes easily now, they’d be large enough for sure.
    
    But then again, afaik, the discs are not really needed and don’t need to accommodate that much space in them except for licensing and DRM stuff, I think, since the majority of the game is downloaded regardless, right?
    
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  - conciselyverbose@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Nintendo's drives are tiny, capacity wise. And expensive enough that publishers won't pay for the "high capacity" (that's still not big enough for games anywhere except the switch, due to how low res assets are) ones.
    
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- essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I bought a 1TB micro SD card recently, it cost less than a new AAA game. Almost any individual AAA game would fit on a quarter of that.
  
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- bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray#BDXL
  
  Even normal UHD BRDs can and do hold upwards of 100GB, as those can have 4 layers (~25GB each layer).
  
  A lot of game size bloat is due to lazy optimization. Lords of the Fallen on PC–while it had questionable game performance for some folk–the game looked gorgeous and was quite a massive world, yet the download for it was around 40GB.
  
  There are very few games I can think of that warrant being 100+GB. And even if they’re more than 100GB, what’s stopping them from just using 2 Blu-rays? Remember the PS1 days when games like FF7 had 4 discs? Or when WoW came out, it came with like 8 installation discs or some other absurd number? Blu-rays are more expensive, sure, but I can’t imagine games getting to be more than 2 discs long during the lifespan of Blu-ray as a storage medium anyway.
  
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  - jyte@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Except that games are broken at release and need day1 patch in order to work. Although you will ship BD, the day update servers are taken down, your physical copy won’t allow you to play the game either.
    
    The only question I have is : Is torrenting game patchs / updates concidered piracy as well ? If it is, we are definitely doomed.
    
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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah if I have to go all digital that’s the last console I get. At least with a PC I can get DRM free copies.

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gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

A rent economy is toxic and rotten,

Not always. I would gladly pay to rent something I need only every now and then instead to buy it.

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- JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  But that is the concept of renting rather than a rent economy.
  
  An industry or economy based entirely around renting with 0 other options is almost always rotten to the core.
  
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