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.
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.