I believe that existing laws probably don't properly cover the type of abuse that's happening here because the laws are behind the curve. Specifically, what we are being muscled with are modifications of the traditional fair use rights including but not limited to:
- The right to sell your copy of the copyrighted material after you are through with it.
- The right to lend it.
- The right to give it away.
- The right to use it without incurring other peripheral expenses, such as excessive internet charges in order to use the copyrighted materials.
Let's put it this way. We'll take a book as an example. You can lend it. You can give it away. You can sell it. You can read it in other places than where the publisher chooses. If a bookseller said you could only read the book you bought at the library, you'd laugh 'em out of town.
Yet, supposedly fair-minded people are perfectly happy with being bound to a chair, blindfolded and then being allowed to read the book.
This is the proper venue of legislative action in various countries. Unfortunately, with these corporate gangsters being the only ones hiring lobbyists and legislatures not being disposed to listen to ordinary people, we have an uphill battle.
No, probably in most countries, what Ubi is doing here is perfectly legal. But it should not be. People should serve jail time for this stuff. Companies should be dissolved for this type of customer abuse. We can help!
Until Ubi relents:
Refuse to buy SH5
Refuse to play SH5
Refuse to mod SH5
Refuse to produce tutorials for SH5
Refuse to make video of SH5
It only encourages the dinosaur.