Playstation’s decision to kill physical game discs is the latest attack on our diminishing rights to access and engage with culture digitally. Rent-seeking corporations and negligent lawmakers share the blame–and they can do better. Gamers are right to sound the alarm, and we must take this moment to fight for digital ownership before it’s too late.
Even if you can’t play the game, the fact that the disc is required to play the game as a method of license management still holds inherent value.
Just because Sony locks you out, it doesn’t negate the resale value. And even if Sony kills your account and blacklist your console, there would be nothing stopping you from buying a new PS5 and play it completely offline with a local account. You’d be SOL with digital-only licenses.