Sony has banned the resale and rental of games for the PlayStation 4 in Russia

Unexpectedly, Sony took and made changes to Terms of Use for its new-generation PlayStation 4 game console. Now users of the new console, which will appear in the Russian sale on November 29, are prohibited from reselling and renting games intended for it.

Excerpts from the amended "Terms of Use of the console" can be read below.

Limitations of using the program:

• You receive a non-exclusive and non-transferable license to use the program only for personal purposes, only on authorized systems (in accordance with the information contained on the packaging of the disk program or in the description of the downloaded program, or other information that we may occasionally tell you) and only in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, Russia and Oceania;
• You do not have the right to use the program for commercial purposes, broadcast it, provide it on a paid basis or in any other way publicly reproduce it without our direct permission, and if the program is published by another company, without the direct permission of the publisher;
• You have no right to sublicense, rent or lease, publish, modify, adapt or translate any fragments of the program.

Resale:

• You do not have the right to resell disc programs and downloadable programs without our direct permission, and if the program is published by another company, then without the direct permission of the publisher.

Earlier this year, the PlayStation 4 has already won the hearts of many players, when Sony confirmed that, unlike the Xbox One (which, by the way, has already changed the policy), the PlayStation 4 will not have any restrictions, including related to the conditions of use of used games, and will not impose any restrictions on users of the console, as is the case with the PlayStation 3.

Now, just before the release of the console itself, Sony decided to change the policy regarding the distribution of content in some countries, including Russia.

Apparently, the same restrictions still exist in the PlayStation 3 and its games, but Sony essentially never put emphasis on this. It is possible that the company just wants to clearly define the rules and answer all questions of legal use of content in case of problems related to these issues. However, after such statements remained sediment. Not such a “kind and fluffy” PlayStation 4, which seemed at first glance.

The article is based on materials https://hi-news.ru/consoles/sony-ustanovila-zapret-na-pereprodazhu-i-arendu-igr-dlya-playstation-4-v-rossii.html.