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‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)
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*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be able to access the films and TV shows they had bought. *

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[–] 58 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I mean I hate to say it but if steam closed up shop tomorrow your games are gone too. You buy a license, not a copy, from steam

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yes that is true - although many games on Steam can play offline so because I download the game, I own it in that fashion. They can't take that away.

    But compare with GOG then. They sell games, you download them with no DRM so you own the download essentially.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    But compare with GOG then. They sell games, you download them with no DRM so you own the download essentially.

    This is the model digital media should take, frankly. Anything less may as well be misleading marketing, as far as I'm concerned.

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