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Wiki Compiles Sony's Own Wording On Digital Game Ownership

A crowdsourced wiki catalogs how Sony has described PlayStation digital purchases as owned property, fueling debate over what buying a digital game means.

A community-run wiki has assembled a running list of everywhere Sony's own websites tell PlayStation owners they "own" their digital games.

The page, hosted on consumerrights.wiki, pulls together instances of Sony's marketing and storefront language that refers to digital purchases as owned property. Its title ties the list to a possible PlayStation digital game ownership lawsuit, but the page itself reads as an evidence catalog, not a court record - there's no case name, court, or plaintiff attached to it here, just a documented trail of Sony's own wording. The project surfaced on Hacker News on September 10, 2026, pulling 67 points and a modest nine-comment thread.

Digital storefronts have spent years telling buyers they "own" content that can vanish the moment a license deal lapses or a service shuts down. A catalog like this turns that contradiction into something citable, useful for a legal argument, a regulatory complaint, or just a sharper complaint to customer support. It's the kind of granular documentation that moves a vague frustration into evidence.

Sony isn't the only one who talks this way - similar own-versus-license gripes have dogged Amazon, Apple, and other digital storefronts - but this wiki just made Sony's version of it a lot easier to point to.

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