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Does purchasing a game on GOG.com really grants ownership of the game and not a license to use it? (fedia.io)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] -3 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

I just shared all my GOG games with my family and they could install the games without a hitch. They could import it to Steam and Heroic and play it from there. Can’t do that with Steam.

Steam tries to obstruct you from doing it, but Federal law gives you the right. Quit spreading misinformation about Steam having the power to override your property rights, because it doesn't.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    What is allowed to do and what it does differ. Stop being so blind.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago

    And that makes it injustice that needs to be resisted!

    What the fuck is wrong with you, that you just want to accept the enemy's usurpation of your rights?

    The notion that corporations get to unilaterally change the law to redefine what "buying" and "ownership" mean is some Stockholm syndrome, late-stage-capitalist, ass-backwards insanity. Snap the fuck out of it!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    What Federation is being Federal to you? If it's the USA, overriding your property rights was the whole purpose of the DMCA.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Even accepting the argument that a tyrannical law invalidates rights rather than violating them (which I don't, BTW), the DMCA only applies to things that are DRM'd, not everything on Steam.

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