“Buy game” where you own your digital copy and can do whatever you want with it.
Y’all ain’t ever seein’ that one.
Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it
parpol@programming.dev 1 day ago
They will get around it. Instead I suggest that buy buttons should say what you’re buying.
For example: Just “buy” should not be allowed.
“Buy License” or “Rent Game” for games with DRM. “Buy game” where you own your digital copy and can do whatever you want with it.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 day ago
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
GOG
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is still only licensing you the game regardless of whether or not you can download it and play it offline without a problem.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If they can’t take it away from you after you bought it, I think I can still call it ownership.
parpol@programming.dev 1 day ago
Probably not. Still “buy licence” at least gives us more transparency.
turtle@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
Even better, “buy non-transferable license”, because that’s technically what it is.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
How would it work, anyway?
yamanii@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
You just repeated the proposal.