| haxxiy said: There would be no legal basis whatsoever for suing them in that case. DMCA and similar access control laws are pretty clear and have been validated by decades of jurisprudence and international treaties. You might as well be trying to sue them because your disc copy broke and you want another because you think you bought a forever license. Nope. |
A regular person wouldnt be the one who would sue them, it would be Valve because to release games on Steam, I'm sure there would be contractual agreements placed upon where a company cant just randomly revoke a game from large amount of customers because they feel like it.
Companies can freely delist, not revoke.
Delist =/= Revoke
If you think Sony will go unscathed legally revoking thousands of keys for whatever random reason, you have no idea what you are talking about.
Digital licenses are different from physical licenses.
Suing for a physical licensed product wont be taken seriously in court because of multiple conditions that can lead to that product being damaged, disc rot, whether its overuse, neglect, etc
Digital licenses just cant break randomly because its not a physical product.
Digital licenses can only become inaccessible (i.e. 3DS eshop/WiiU eshop/xbox 360 marketplace keys and the platforms that run those services stop working) or if the key is fraudulent, there's no expiration date or decay like a physical product.
There has not been any case where a key was randomly revoked just because a company deemed it that they could do that. I'm pretty sure there are licensed agreements between Valve and any publisher that they just cant revoke the license like I mentioned above.
Edit: DMCA indicates the ability to send a take down for infringment/theft - if they released their games on Steam, EGS, etc to begin with, how can they use that as a argument in court, they would get torn apart by Valve, Epic Games, etc.
Anyways, we can go around in circles talking about this. Until something like this actually happens from not just Sony but any other third party (i.e. Say for an example Square Enix decides to revoke keys from Xbox store or Capcom deciding to revoke keys of their games from the Switch) , I dont see this as an issue to worry about.
Last edited by BasilZero - on 20 October 2024
