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fuck Adobe and fuck their licensing (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world
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I'm so absolutely sick of it.

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

That applies to all digital store fronts and isn't specific to game pass.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, this is mistaken. If a digital storefront sells their media in a DRM-free format, you receive the files in an unrestricted way, similar to if you bought a physical book, movie, or album.

    Unrestricted is not to say given permission to copy and distribute as you'd like, but that's the same as for physical media.

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

    Okay sure, for DRM-free storefronts that's true but I'm talking about arguing that Game Pass is somehow worse than say Steam when the reality is that you can lose all your content on both storefronts. Most aren't DRM-free, which is the issue.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Fwiw I can see where you're coming from, but I don't really understand why/what for. Game Pass isn't really comparable to Steam or a digital storefront anyway, which already makes the comparison kind of silly. That said, I recognize you were going off the other commenter's framing in the argument there, so not faulting you for following along with it. I did just the same in my reply before giving it some more thought with this one.

    Nevertheless, it is worse in terms of ownership, but that was never its selling point to begin with, so it's silly to criticize it in that respect, much as it would be to criticize Netflix for not providing ownership of what it gives access to. Also regarding Steam DRM, xcjs covers that nicely in the other reply here.

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