• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 hours ago

    No no no.

    You don’t get how bad this is.

    Fucking over people for a smidgen more margin would be bad,… but this… this is a power play, a naked power play.

    It isn’t even about money, because when you do what they just did… the definition of money, property, what a ‘sale’ is… that all changes.

    They’re changing the rules that the whole game is played by, not just acting cynically within those rules.

    Its a brutal and naked demonstration that a corporation can just decide what property rights are, how they work for, what, like, around a billion people?

    This is a what the prologue or prequel to your favorite cyberpunk story looks like.

    This is how you set a precedent for digital property rights… in a primarily digitized economic system.

    They’re just straight up telling you they own you, and every appliance or car or whatever mfg’er will point at Sony as the precedent.