#24 by Calilasseia » Jun 05, 2012 6:38 pm
It's another example of how Sony thinks it has the right to treat the sucker consumer as a limitless cash cow. Sony's corporate wet dream, for a long time, has centred upon such things as perpetual copyright (owned by them, naturally), and destroying ALL fair use provisions, so that they can force you to pay again and again and again for the same content you've already paid for. Eventually, they want to rig the market so that any content you pay for, be it a movie, a piece of music or a game, will only be temporarily in your hands, and if you want to access that content again, you have to pony up another exorbitant fee to regain access to the content you already paid for before. In short, they want to rig the media market for all media, in such a way, that the sucker consumer has to pay again and again and again, for content that the consumer has already paid for, so that the CEO and his chums can all retire to a 200 foot gin palace in Monte Carlo harbour, complete with limitless supply of champagne and hookers. Sony's nightmare vision of the future is one in which you never own any instance of content you've paid for, and if you try to own that instance, you fall foul of various duplicitous pieces of "intellectual property" legislation that they've twisted politicians' arms to implement, and you end up enjoying soap on a rope in prison for five years. They really think that they're entitled to treat music, video and game customers as money slaves, to be milked at leisure.
As for abandonware, well, my view is that once a game descends into obsolescence, it should become freeware, especially if you have to keep a legacy piece of hardware around to play it, or have to resort to an emulator because no legacy hardware of the required sort exists.
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