Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it

parpol@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    GOG

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    • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is still only licensing you the game regardless of whether or not you can download it and play it offline without a problem.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If they can’t take it away from you after you bought it, I think I can still call it ownership.

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  • parpol@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Probably not. Still “buy licence” at least gives us more transparency.

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    • turtle@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Even better, “buy non-transferable license”, because that’s technically what it is.

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How would it work, anyway?

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• yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You just repeated the proposal.

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