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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2026
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The discs served as a proxy for licensing, right? It's easy to conflate owning the disc with owning the rights to play the game; but it's also easy to have DRM render discs useless if a game has "phone home" to unlock itself.
People don't necessarily want discs, they want to own a copy of the game. It's not a physical medium that really separates the two, it's licensing and DRM software.