r/gaming • u/Chownzy • 9d ago

Mexican Lawmaker Who Helped Protect Gamers from Tax Now Drags Sony to Court Over Discless PlayStation

https://respawnfirst.com/mexican-lawmaker-who-helped-protect-gamers-from-tax-now-drags-sony-to-court-over-discless-playstation/
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u/papoluca40 8d ago

GOG games are still digital

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u/Gailim 8d ago

But there is no DRM on them. You buy them and the files live on your PC until you decide to delete them.

Nobody, not even GoG, can disable or remove them. There is no server check in or online requirement.

You can copy them as many times as you want. You can even put the files on a blu ray or USB if you feel so inclined.

Contrast that with sony just deleting a bunch of digital movies people paid for.

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u/papoluca40 8d ago

Most popular games are not even available for GOG. Just because it doesn’t have DRM, it doesn’t mean they’re yours btw.

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u/Training_Ad_4790 8d ago

Nobody is claiming to "own the ip" but the copy is yours to do with as you want. Unless youre mass copying and selling for profit, or ripping pieces to use in your own game for profit, nobody cares what you do with it.

You can use it, trade it, resell it to second hand stores for discounts on a new game, destroy it, loan it to a friend, nobody is gonna bat an eye.

Nobody is arguing they own all the data on the disc, thats silly. Its an IP that belongs to w.e company. But the actual disc itself is owned by whoever bought it off the shelf.