• FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    If you buy DRM free games. you effectively “own” them not in a legal sense, but in a practical sense.

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      11 months ago

      Sure, and that’s only mostly true if you back them up.

      That said, I can’t sell a DRM free game, so I don’t really own it like I do with physical media.

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        11 months ago

        Nothing’s stopping you from copying the game onto a flashdrive and selling it to a friend

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            11 months ago

            Before online DRM, we used to buy games once among friends, dividing the cost, and then share them. At first, everyone got the disc for a few days each, but then we figured out how to remove the copy protection…

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          11 months ago

          So you’re going to put your USB stick on eBay? Because that’s what I do with old console games