Hey, everybody. How's it going? Hope you

having a lovely day. Welcome to today's

episode of How You Getting [ __ ] I'm

your host, Louis Rossmann. And today

we're going to be talking about Sony

discontinuing the idea of having

physical media for your games and why I

don't care. Many of you may be thinking,

"Louis, why don't you care about this?

Don't you care about ownership? I can't

believe you said that you don't care

that Sony is not giving you a physical

copy of your game anymore." Honestly,

couldn't give a [ __ ] Completely

irrelevant, in my opinion, and I'm going

to show you why. This is something that

I see happening in the car community

when people start talking about uh

vehicles that are not fixable or

vehicles that spy on you. I've gone over

this in older videos where people will

bring up how Tesla has a computer in it

and the Tesla is spying on you and these

damn unfixable electric cars and these

damn unfixable Teslas. And one of the

things that they are missing out on and

one of the things that annoys me when I

hear those statements is by getting all

the hate on Tesla. And to be clear, Elon

Musk deserves a lot. If you did just if

you just look up the word Tesla or Elon

Musk on my channel, you will find I am

not a fanboy by any means. But the issue

that I have with this is that when you

put all of the pressure on this one

person, it allows everybody else to use

that person as a pinata and then take

cover for the actual anti-consumer

actions being taken by every other car

company. Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford,

was recently talking about how you

shouldn't be fixing your car within the

warranty period. He was fearmongering

over it while he was talking with the

president of the United States along

with other car industry executives and

trying to get rid of this thing called

the Repair Act, which would make it

easier for independent mechanics to be

able to get access to what they need to

fix vehicles. And he said that they

could kill you. It could kill you if you

fix a modern car. Now, he was not

talking about a Tesla Model 3, nor was

he talking about the Ford Mach-E, which

is one of their models of electric car.

He was talking about the Bronco, which

is an internal combustion engine car.

So, when people in my comments start

going back and forth about how electric

cars are horrible and Tesla is horrible

and all this other stuff, I'm not saying

there's no stupid [ __ ] with electric

cars. I'm not saying there's not a lot

of problems with them. But you're giving

cover to traditional automakers that

make internal combustion engine vehicles

primarily to be able to do the same

[ __ ] When General Motors introduced

technology that was spying on everybody

in their cars, they They doing it on

both their gasoline cars and their

electric cars. And because they were in

Tesla, it wasn't really getting noticed

as much. When Ford says that you

shouldn't be able to fix your car, this

is only now starting to become something

that is going mainstream because people

are focusing on the wrong thing. And

when you talk about physical games, yes,

Sony does like to take things away from

you that you already bought and paid

for. They recently did this where they

said as of September 1st, 2026, because

play has no limits, you will no longer

be able to watch any of your previously

purchased Studio Canal content. But they

can do that to physical media, too.

Exhibit A, The Crew, the game that

started the stop killing games movement.

That's a physical disc.

Do you care that you have the physical

disc? Does having a copy of the disc

make any change? What matters is digital

rights management and required

connectivity to an online server. That

can take any form. I would much rather

have a game that has no DRM, no

requirement to connect to a server that

I don't have a physical copy of than I

would a game that I get a physical copy

of. Having a physical copy of a game

does absolutely [ __ ] nothing to

ensure that the game remains playable

over time. And that is my point. When I

see people getting angry over not having

a physical game, you shouldn't care. You

should be able to download your game

that you get the code to and burn it to

a DVD or a Blu-ray disc if you want or

play it off of your hard drive. You

should be fine having an only digital

copy of your game. You should be excited

that you have a digital-only copy of

your game. The problem is not the fact

that you don't have a physical copy of

it anymore. The problem is that they

come with digital rights management that

does not allow you to do what you want

with what you bought and paid for. And

the other problem with it is that it

requires connectivity to an online

server in order to work. As long as the

product requires connectivity to an

online server in order to work, whether

it came in the form of a DVD, a

cartridge, a Blu-ray, a kitty, if

Blackberry required a connection to a

cloud server in order to work, if

Blackberry came with digital rights

management, she would not be my kitty

and I would not be her human. In order

for you to have ownership of what you

bought and paid for, it's not just about

having something that's shiny that you

can see in your hand. It is about buying

products that are not sold with this

type of crap. I'll give you an example,

GOG, Good Old Games, gog.com. These are

games that are sold with no DRM. You can

go to gog.com right now and you can buy

games that are digital rights management

free. No DRM, these are games that you

can download and that you can copy and

that you can burn to a piece of physical

media yourself. I was told that games on

GOG are DRM free, is that true? You can

burn the installer parts to discs and

you'll get a prompt to switch discs.

Actually playing the games from disc

will vary from game to game, but yeah,

you can actually buy games at this point

in time that don't have digital rights

management. Now, when you buy games from

those websites, you won't get physical

media, but because they don't have

digital rights management on them, you

can make your own physical media of the

game and you can play it however you

want. The game will work in 2026, the

game will work next year, the game will

work in 2036, the game will work in 2096

if the world is still here by then.

And that's what matters. I want to make

sure that everybody watching this video

keeps their eye on the ball. Whether or

not you have access to physical media

does not matter at all. You can make

your own physical media of the game.

Just because you can hold the game in

your hand does not mean that they won't

take it away from you. And the proof is

right [ __ ] there. Demand that the

games that you purchase don't have

digital rights management on them. Stop

buying games if they have digital rights

management on them and stop playing

things that require connectivity to

somebody else's server in order to work.

It's one thing if it's a choice to

connect to their server, it's another if

it's a requirement.

The only game that I play that requires

connection to somebody else's server

back in the day was Dota 2

cuz it was free.

I never made a microtransaction in that

game, I never viewed an ad in that game,

I just played and enjoyed the game.

Way God intended.

Now, a lot of people are linking to this

one very funny video. This is a video,

official PlayStation used game

instructional video. They are making fun

of other companies that do not sell you

a physical copy of your game and this is

another reason that they should never be

fanboys or fangirls in my comment

section. For Tesla, for politicians, for

companies or anything else. Do you

remember when Samsung made fun of people

for removing the headphone jack? Do you

remember when Samsung also removed the

headphone jack and the microSD card

slot? Do you remember when people that

bought Samsung products were proud of

them because they could root them and

install different operating systems on

it? Do you know how now you can't do

that? That's because many companies are

not loyal to their customers, they're

loyal to whatever it is that will make

them the most money and whatever is

easiest for them. That's why they

published this thing showing you how you

could share your physical game with your

friends and then years later decided,

"Never mind, we're going to do the exact

same anti-consumer bullshit."

Wow, this is a really shitty commercial.

These companies are more than happy to

brag about something right now and then

a few years later just turn around and

do the exact same thing as the people

that they were bashing. This video has

20 million views and I imagine that many

of its views have been within the last 1

to 2 weeks since this garbage has been

announced. Please keep your eye on the

ball. Please make sure you're asking for

the right thing and please, above all,

never be a fanboy to a company. Loyalty

is for your interpersonal relationships

and for people that have stuck up for

you and nobody else would. It's not for

[ __ ] game company, politician, auto

maker that makes it very clear and

obvious

with evidence that they don't and never

have given a [ __ ] about you. That's it

for today and as always, I hope you

learned something. I'll see you in the

next video. Bye now.

>> We also have the duty not to [music]

infringe the IP rights in the process.

It is in fact the manufacturers who have

the relevant rights, not consumers.