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BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I'm actually still kinda surprised about this. My understanding is that the licenses from rights holders to streaming platforms generally included an indefinite right to stream to people who'd purchased content, even if they may not offer it for continued purchase or as part of the general included streaming library.

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TheEntity@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That's definitely how it works with games on Steam or GOG.

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- BolexForSoup@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Unless you bought after-market keys like on G2A and it turned out to be stolen/keygen'd. Valve will remove your game if your key is found to be stolen (whether you knew it or not). I imagine you know this but just felt it bore mentioning.
  
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  - TheEntity@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Good point, yes, that's an exception. A justified one if you'd ask me but I guess YMMV.
    
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- CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You can read the subscriber agreement here but I’m pretty sure that’s not the case with Steam.
  
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  - TheEntity@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I have dozens of games in my library that are no longer available to purchase. Often these are games with expired music copyright, though some just removed the music in an update instead. I don't remember a single withdrawn game that would get removed from my library.
    
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    CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    My point was it’s likely within Steam’s rights. If they needed to or wanted to they likely could but they likely know the overwhelming backlash that they would face.
    
    For example games like Rimworld and Disco Elysium were, at a time, banned in Australia. I don’t believe they were removed from online storefronts but if there was ever enough legal pressure maybe something could have happened. There is a Steam Support page regional restrictions but it doesn’t mention anything in regards to accessing games that have become banned in your country.
    
    I think Codename: Gordon and Order of War were removed. I could be mistaken though.
    
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- AliasWyvernspur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  iTunes as well. There are a few things I can still stream that are no longer sold.
  
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echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Streaming isn’t the same as downloading. It has different rights and with movies it’s especially complicated. The rights to a movie can literally be so complicated that no one knows who owns it.

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