How do you disprove that this “GOG content” are offline installer files that, as long as you keep them backed up, work indefinitely even if GOG revokes your license to download them again?
I hope you’re paid well to spread this easily disproven lie.
support.gog.com/…/212632089-GOG-User-Agreement?pr…
We give you and other GOG users the personal right (known legally as a ‘license’) to use GOG services and to download, access and/or stream (depending on the content) and use GOG content. This license is for your personal use. We can stop or suspend this license in some situations, which are explained later on.
Azzu@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
I don’t. However, using those files after GOG revokes your license would be piracy.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
the reality of the situation is that these 2 things look exactly the same in 99% of circumstance and 100% of circumstances that consumers actually care about
WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
This is just the license do download the game, not to install it.
Once you’ve downloaded the software they can’t revoke it anymore.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
Yes they can. They cannot stop you from installing the game, but once they revoke your license, it would be piracy.
GOG shills always twist reality to try to make it conform to the “you own you games” lie, but the truth is GOG is no different than Steam.
Azzu@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
How do you use a Steam game after its license was revoked?
woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
By default Steam is a mere download manager without any DRM. You can zip the game folder and back it up anywhere. Whether or not publishers go through the additional steps to enable one or more DRM solution is a different matter. My favorite Steam games have no DRM at all.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
Same as GOG: piracy.
WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
They can’t, actually, because they don’t hold the rights to that content, only to GOG and the installer. Once it’s installed their distribution and license rights end.
If the game you install has its own license from the rights holder that gets revoked then you’ll be in breach of that license, if anything.