If Google ever becomes certain that their monopoly state is in no danger of being broken by legislature, they stop financing Firefox, and Mozilla immediately dies to bankruptcy.

I think your example serves the other guy's point...

She is suspected of being a Chinese spy. As in: an agent of foreign state sent to honeypot Huang and steal secrets.

Keep in mind that the GPU is a heavily regulated market with China being sanctioned - no exports of modern GPUs to China are legal.

(notice how nervously dismissing Jensen always is when asked about the black market GeForce cards already in China)

They forgot to add "make no mistakes" at the end of the prompt, noobs.

How does that fix the issue OP is writing about? The knowledge no longer accessible from a simple web search?

Anyone who wants to get into anything even remotely BDSM-y should have mandatory reading of Sunstone first.

There's a character there who lost her hands because she wanted to impress her dom boyfriend and tied herself to the bed with self-tightening knots. The boyfriend - not aware of the fact - was home late. By that time she lost strength in her arms, the knots tightened and cut off blood-flow and her hands had to be amputated.

This shit is sexy and hot, but dangerous if performed by unaware/inexperienced people.

And yet there are 100% single player games that require a phone-home server to be active.

If Astro Bot doesn't do that, then it's irrelevant if you have it on a disk, or if you have a digital download. Assuming, of course, the digital download remains available, you get the exact same functionality.

And, likewise, regardless if you have the game on a disk or from DD, if it requires a server somewhere to be online, you do not have any control over the game or when you can play it, because it can always be rendered unplayable by the publisher pulling the plug on the server.

Yes I understand that there are some exceptions with some games being online only etc. but even the physical discs (or carts) that only hold a licence are still a valid form of ownership because the physical license that the physical format itself provides can be transferred to another party, like borrowing or gifting it to a friend, or selling it.

And this is what you're misunderstanding.

There's no physical license attached to your CoD disc - you need an account to activate it. Your disk is irrelevant.

As long as the publisher/developer is able to just shut-down the game remotely, you having a disk means nothing.

DRM is only partially relevant here because that's another layer that can be used to block access, but the primary one is how the publisher/developer holds the keys to the kingdom in most cases these days - regardless of the medium the games comes on.

The discussion isn't about a specific platform, it's about physical vs digital media. Therefore you didn't answer the question.

If you're getting stuck on the "but it's GOG, it's different", replace that with literally any other digital distribution platform, because that is irrelevant to the question.

Are you just refusing to answer the question because you know you would have to cede your point...?

So you do acknowledge that it's not the medium of distribution, but rather the setup of the game itself that matters?

So?

Those games distributed through a platform like GOG also won't phone home, so where's the difference?

If the physical media game requires a server connection, how is it ownership, exactly? The corpo can still effectively take away the product from you by shutting down the servers. Or banning you.

"Plastic stuff" doesn't give you rights. Laws give you rights.