Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own

• ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Suggest reading into software licensing and understand the different types of licenses.

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  • SparroHawc@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Every time a company tries to restrict the number of downloads/reinstalls for a game that you buy a license for, it has backlashed so catastrophically that they’ve walked it back.

    So it has happened, yes, but there is no situation currently with game distributors where you pay a license for a single download. They’re all pay once, download in perpetuity.

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    • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t get me wrong here, I understand the pushback from the community in this regard and i’m not try to defend proprietary software.

      I’m more or less letting the original commenter know that they really don’t own the game or game files they purchase from common store-fronts, they simply own a license to download and play the game.

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      • SparroHawc@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        they actually don’t own the game

        This is a fact that has been made apparent repeatedly. We know.

        However, you were replying to this:

        Make us individual game owners pay license every time we download and install the game?

        With this:

        This is how it’s been done for decades now?

        …which is patently false.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sure buddy.

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    • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Username checks out.

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      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Of course, buddy.

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