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California will force companies to admit you don't own digital content (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

(C )Any digital good that is advertised or offered to a person that the seller cannot revoke access to after the transaction, which includes making the digital good available at the time of purchase for permanent offline download to an external storage source to be used without a connection to the internet.

It shouldn't be that hard, gog.com manages to do it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh I thought they meant having the content permanently available for download, which is impossible. Thanks for the clarification!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That said, GOG releases is the most common kind on torrent trackers where there are any.

So - there is virtue to commercial concerns, but not in the way that assropes customers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They might be the most common because they're the easiest, but there are also still plenty of people actually paying for the games. I'll never be convinced that piracy is an actual threat to making money. Piracy has never been easier, just see /c/[email protected] for proof, and yet pretty much all forms of entertainmment are as profitable as ever.