Nobody's giving you a perpetual license to anything, even GOG, any license you're "buying" (this keyword is actually not allowed on stores like steam for exactly this reason) can be revoked at any time for whatever reason they want.
Nobody's giving you a perpetual license to anything, even GOG, any license you're "buying" (this keyword is actually not allowed on stores like steam for exactly this reason) can be revoked at any time for whatever reason they want.
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That’s just not true. Inform yourself to save future embarrassment.
You are confusing licensing and terms of service.
Zoot@reddthat.com 3 hours ago
This is very true. If Amazon shuts down tomorrow, you’ve forever lost that license to what ever software you rented.
You have no way of ever getting that license back, legally. You will have to rent said software somewhere else, even though the nomenclature on the website and everywhere else said “You bought this”
Which is far more patently false than what you’re saying.
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
It’s not. You’re just talking absolute nonsense and I’ll not spend anymore time talking to you ignorant naysayers.
Here, educate yourself… www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw
Zoot@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
So do tell me, Amazon folds tomorrow, how do you regain access to the video game or software you bought? It has drm btw
imecth@fedia.io 1 day ago
Do you really own your game if it can be unilaterally taken away from you ? Copyright law is fucked and the software industry is happy with the status quo - no owning a license that's behind dozens of pages of TOS is not owning a game.