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> 1. Just like movies, you don't own anything. Revocation can occur at any time.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you'll still rely on Sony's servers to get the updates that make the game playable, since it has become customary to ship games riddled with bugs to patch them afterwards (which doesn't happen with movies, yet).

And if they really want to target you specifically, they can still blacklist your console by id, unless you completely stop connecting your console to the Internet.

So, buying the physical version can only protect you against revocation in very specific cases, unless you want to limit yourself to playing the broken version that is shipped on the disc.



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