Probably not. Still “buy licence” at least gives us more transparency.
Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 day ago“Buy game” where you own your digital copy and can do whatever you want with it.
Y’all ain’t ever seein’ that one.
parpol@programming.dev 1 day ago
turtle@lemm.ee 5 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?
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.
turtle@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
Not trying to argue, but I don’t believe I can re-sell my copy of a game I “bought” on GOG, so in my view that’s not full ownership as most people understand it. If you’re a full, legal owner of some property, you can sell that property anywhere you like.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
There is a bigger barrier to them being able to take it away from you. But they absolutely can. Broadcast content like a movie or TV show illegally, and see what happens.