After Sony tells fans they don't own digital games, one Consumer Rights group is tracking all the times PlayStation said the opposite Own goal. Last month, Sony argued that "reasonable consumers" already know they don't really own the digital goods they paid for. The Consumer Rights wiki has now made a list collecting more than 30 examples where Sony told customers they do, in fact, own the digital games they paid for. (You know, the links to the company's Terms of Service and Software Product Licensing Agreement that show up just before you pay for something on the PlayStation Store.) Seemingly in response to those arguments, the Consumer Rights wiki has now created a "non-exhaustive table of references on Sony's site to 'owning' digital games." The list includes more than 30 occasions in which Sony's site has said something along the lines of, "View a broadcast for a game you own through the game's hub," or, "If you own the PS4 and PS5 versions of the same game, here's how to switch between them…" One of the more recent examples can be found in Marvel's Wolverine's FAQ section: "Standard Edition owners can also upgrade to the Digital Deluxe Edition content." The lawsuit claimants said Sony was in breach of a California Law that made it "unlawful for a seller of a digital good to advertise or offer for sale a digital good to a purchaser with the terms 'buy,' 'purchase,' or any other term which a reasonable person would understand to confer an unrestricted ownership interest in the digital good." (Reasonability doesn't seem like something you could measure in court, but I digress.) A digital vendor can get around the law by giving customers clear information about the licenses they're paying for.
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