Sony Transfer Your PSP UMD purchases to the PSVita (with a small fee)

In this case, I think their charging of a fee is acceptable. Admittedly, it may be too high, but that is merely difference in economic opinion, as opposed to a disagreement on entitlement. I do not believe Sony has an obligation to provide free digital copies. They still have to provide the service of hosting the games and allowing the user to download. There are costs associated with it. It is well within their moral rights and their duty to the customer to demand payment.

For anyone particularly upset about it, I'm sure one option is simply to wait until the PSV is cracked. Once that happens, I have no doubt that a bootloader will be made that can run ripped UMDs. In this scenario, you can do what Sony offers to do, for free. As far as I am aware, it will not violate any laws, possibly aside from the ones associated with the files of the cracked firmware. If I get a PSV, that is the approach I will take, because I do not fancy paying for the same game twice.

 

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