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Somebody gets it (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 167 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (13 children)

The crazy thing is, there's no actual reason we can't own digital copies of the media. We could easily own the rights to a digital copy, the game and movie industry has just unanimously decided that they won't allow that.

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  • [–] 81 points 3 months ago* (6 children)

    GOG DRM-free digital games are ownership

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Yep, but it's also like insanely easy to pirate (good or bad, you decide). I guess op means a system where you have your (digital) copy and can sell, give or lend it, but still it would be "protected", and big business doesn't allow that.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    If you own it, you can copy it. No other way.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    That's not always the case, you can own something that you cannot copy?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    It's ownership of the file, but that alone does not guarantee that you can still play the game. If they revoke the online access and it's an online only game you cannot play. If they remove any and all updates you could get for the game then you could not play especially if it has day zero breaking bugs or incomplete game think something like cyberpunk 2077, but it could be worse. This isn't 1990 anymore we no longer get complete games.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    Well, I'm just happy that they can't remotely delete the game from my PC's drive if they do choose to unsell it. Unless they can with EULA clauses like "We reserve the right to remotely access and update the Product at any time" in which case, Fuck

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Fairly sure steam has sufficient access to your system to do just that to the games it installed.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Even if they can't, the publisher can always just push an update that makes it unplayable.

    I'm pretty sure they can require an update before launching, and you have to be online every once in a while to play games on steam at all.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    We could easily get a lot of things, but we don't fight to receive them. We think that the laws are supposed to be made to benefit us, but that stopped being the case as soon as we allowed corporations to influence things in their own favor instead. Everything in capitalism is a battle - you're either fighting to win, or letting someone else win by default.

    At this point things are so bad that we'd have to band together and fight like hell even for a minor win, and few people want to do that. Stop Killing Games is the closest thing we have to what we should have organized as soon as digital media started becoming common.

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