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Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge

Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

You know, I have purchased around 200 games. I have no idea how many of those can be mine because they’re linked to a store, maintained (usually) by a corporation hellbent on optimised profits, subject to mandatory updates so I have no choice but to play the way they want me to, and I don’t have the space to store them all. I don’t feel like any of them are really safe, not until they’re transferred to an offline machine.

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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They’re not owned by you. You own a license to use them. Some stores, like GOG, give you a less restrictive license, but it’s still a license.

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- Ksin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  GoG does actually explicitly state that you own the games baugth on the platform, though who knows how well that holds in a strictly legal sense.
  
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  - FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    You’re not allowed to distribute GoG games so you don’t own them.
    
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