- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Lucia Melcherts, chair of Stichting Massaschade & Consument statement:
The end of physical discs removes the last place where a PlayStation game could still be bought and sold at a competitive price. No discs means no second-hand market and no alternative to the PlayStation Store, so from 2028, Sony alone decides what a game costs and even how long you are allowed to use it. That is exactly the harm our Fair PlayStation claim is about: a price can never be fair when the buyer is left with no ownership and no alternative.
This is a straightforward transaction.
Sony and other companies want to sell access to software. I want to own the games that I buy, on physical media, that plays on a machine that cannot be bricked remotely either through intention or incompetence.
In exchange for refusing to bring such items to market, I will refuse to give them money.
Sony doesn’t have to make physical copies of media, and I don’t have to give them money.
We both save.



