🃏Joker to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 16 days agoDo I Really Own the Digital Media I Bought?www.digitalrightsbytes.orgexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down13cross-posted to: linux_lugcast@lemux.minnix.dev
arrow-up157arrow-down1external-linkDo I Really Own the Digital Media I Bought?www.digitalrightsbytes.org🃏Joker to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 16 days agomessage-square16fedilinkcross-posted to: linux_lugcast@lemux.minnix.dev
minus-squareJackGreenEarthlinkfedilinkEnglish2•16 days agoI do own the games I bought from GOG, not the ones I licenced from Steam.
minus-square🃏JokerOPlinkfedilinkEnglish17•16 days agoYou can’t legally donate, resell or share the games you bought from both companies. You don’t own your games.
minus-squareJackGreenEarthlinkfedilinkEnglish12•16 days agoOh, I don’t care about what’s legal. At least with GOG there’s no DRM so it can’t physically stop me doing what I want with them.
minus-squareDraconic NEOlinkfedilinkEnglish4•16 days agoMany Steam games don’t have DRM either. Just no nice installers like with GOG. Ones which have Steam launch requirement can be launched without it via Steam Emulators or custom SteamAPI.dll
minus-square@Auli@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-215 days agoYou don’t even own the ones on disk you own a license to play the game.
I do own the games I bought from GOG, not the ones I licenced from Steam.
You can’t legally donate, resell or share the games you bought from both companies.
You don’t own your games.
Oh, I don’t care about what’s legal. At least with GOG there’s no DRM so it can’t physically stop me doing what I want with them.
Many Steam games don’t have DRM either. Just no nice installers like with GOG. Ones which have Steam launch requirement can be launched without it via Steam Emulators or custom SteamAPI.dll
You don’t even own the ones on disk you own a license to play the game.