Garrett Blacknova
Codex Troopers
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Posted - 2014.01.29 07:55:00 -
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Michael Arck wrote:No, no, no, and no. You need to know and understand these things if you buy electronics.
The PS3 you play on, is not yours. It is owned by Sony and the EULA is a agreement you have with Sony to use their product. It is licensed to you, that doesn't mean its yours. Everytime you buy a game or electronic device, there's some End User License Agreement.
The EULA is designed to protect the entity behind the EULA. It is an understanding between the entity and the end user on what you can and cannot do with their product.
Actually, the PS3 you buy is yours. You own the machine, but you DON'T own the rights to the technology inside and can't legally reverse engineer it or sell/share knowledge about how to bypass any security measures taken to safeguard the technology inside it.
On purchase of a PS3, barring any agreements you may have made with Sony prior to purchase*, you have a legal right to open up your hardware or hack the firmware and figure out how to mod things to suit your liking, as long as you don't share that knowledge and help other people to do the same - especially if those others have made agreements with Sony to not do such things.
When you buy a game or any other software, in most cases, the purchase is simply a license agreement allowing you the USE of the product, not ownership of the product itself, but the physical hardware IS yours to own.
The EULA that you agree to when creating a PSN or SEN account is what limits your rights - many of the usual rights of ownership are given up by someone who signs up for an online account with Sony (see the * above - if you have a PSN or SEN account before purchasing your PS3, the conditions of that account's EULA apply prior to purchase).
If you don't create an account, and consequently don't agree to the terms and conditions of an account, your PS3 remains yours, and you can hack/mod your console freely, you just can't share information about how you did it because that would be a copyright violation, and could potentially leave you open to some pretty serious charges.
When you buy a game or any other software, it's almost always a license you purchase rather than the software itself. You don't own the software, only a license giving you specific limited rights about how you can use it.
DUST needs its own EULA for the same reason any other game or software does. Also, if there was no EULA, players would be well within their rights to create their own super-Dropsuit BPO with 7 high and low slots, 5 equipment, grenades and 2 heavy weapon slots, and fit them with a custom-altered HMG which hits with Forge Gun damage and has 0.5s reload time and the range profile of the Thale's Sniper Rifle. |